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rem26_art, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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I had a Motorola ROKR Z6, which was kinda like the RAZR, but a vertical slider, rather than a flip phone. It was ok, but eventually the dpad like, fell off or something. I don't remember exactly, but it just became unusable at some point.

MxM111, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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It is interesting that a phone with querty keyboard, web browsing and camera is called a dumb phone.

mr_tyler_durden,

“Camera”, “Web Browsing”…. In name only.

I had the phone pictured in the post. I even activated the browser. It was 100% trash. WAP sites and browsers were nothing like even the first iPhone. That’s what made the iPhone such a shock, no one had browsed the web like that on a phone before and it was, no exaggeration, a game changer.

As for the camera the first iPhone camera was garbage comparatively but still was better than most if not all flip phones. I have picture back from when I had that phone pictured in the post and they are a grainy mess.

MxM111,
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Well yeah, things improved. I guess the real difference is that the smart phone is actually a mobile general purpose computing device, which, by the way, also makes a call. My reason for buying iPhone 1 was to combine two devices in one - iPod and mobile phone. I did not expect that e-mail, web browsing and camera were so good. But the real game changer was an App Store, which came later.

someguy3, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Don’t remember the exact model but something like this Nokia 1110.

HeartyOfGlass, in How would you go about a low maintenance personal website today?

Depends on what you need it to do. If you’re looking for something simple for text / minimal images, I’d recommend looking into Static Site Generators like Hugo and using something like GitHub Pages to host.

SSGs are fairly low-maintenance once the set up is out of the way.

pelya, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

I had Nokia 2720 and I had ported DOOM to it.

It was meh. No OS updates in forever, and T9 sucks.

them, in How would you go about a low maintenance personal website today?

Really depends what you want to create but there’s nothing wrong with just writing html and css. They’re as portable as you can get.

If you’re planning to do a lot of editing/posting then a static site genarator would be the next best thing as again you just end up with html and css which can be hosted anywhere. The generator can run on your system. Most are powered by markdown files so the content can (with little work) be migrated to another generator.

Beyond this you’re starting to get in to cms or other complex systems which i think is out of the scope of your question.

havokdj, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

I miss phones being like this sometimes

bjoern_tantau, in How would you go about a low maintenance personal website today?
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Depends™

If I don’t expect many changes I would do a simple HTML page. Maybe with PHP to include the layouts on multiple sites.

If I or a relative should be able to edit it now and then I would use WordPress without any plugins. Set it to auto-update and call it a day.

SecretPancake, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Samsung D900 was my last dumbphone. It was pretty cool. But my fav is still the Moto Razr v3.

lnxtx, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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DeathWearsANecktie, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Alcatel OT606A with slide out keyboard

EldVrangr, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

I miss my Alias 2, best phone I’ve ever owned.

droidpenguin,

It was such a joy to text on it!

grte, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

I believe it was this guy, an LG Cosmos 2. I recall it being not great. But it was infinitely nicer to type on than any phone I’ve had since so there’s that.

Songar87, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

I’ve been enjoying my ability to send and receive texts from my Galaxy Watch 5. Running Google Maps through it while driving is also a plus!

thelastknowngod, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Newegg used to sell this one dumb phone for like $12. Completely unbranded garbage but it made calls and did sms.

My brother used to lose his phone or drop it in the toilet constantly. We had like 3 or 4 of that crappy phone just because he kept doing stupid stuff.

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