I rocked a Samsung Alias 2 for 4 years before I got an iPhone 5. The e-ink keyboard was awesome how it changed when you flipped the screen open to portrait or landscape.
My last non-Andorid phone was a Motorola Krzr. It was a little longer and much less wide than a Razr. If I couldn’t have a smartphone I would go back to that design in a second. It worked very well.
My very first phone was my only non “smart” phone. And even then it was pretty powerful for what it was. It had a web browser, could play mp3s, etc. but I don’t think it was explicitly a smart phone.
My next phone was a Pantech Duo which was labeled a smart phone, but probably wouldn’t be considered one by modern standards. It did the same thing as the previous phone, but you could load apps onto it, came with word, excel mobile on it, could do email, etc.
After that phone I got an iPhone 3g shortly after the 3gs came out.
I remember my first phone better than the last feature phone I had. First was the Nokia 5190
The last non-smartphone I owned was a Samsung I think. One of the first ones that supported media playback. It was a flip/clamshell design. After that it was a string of questionable choices until I got my first Nexus.
I had a strtrk phone (I think that was the name), which was a clamshell Windows Mobile phone and I really liked it but I went for a walk on a pretty warm day and got a call. After a long conversation, enough sweat got into the phone that it died. I also had the HTC touch, I think it was called. Anyways, it was a soap bar but slid sideways and had a qwerty keyboard, also Windows phone. I eventually picked up a Motorola milestone (other regions may know it as the Motorola Droid), which was similar to the HTC, but thinner, with a bigger screen, and it ran android, my first Android phone.
Then I eventually gave up on the hardware keyboard because nobody made phones with them that were any good, went through a few other HTC’s that were all Android and very forgettable, until I landed on the Nexus 4. I’ve been doing the Google thing since. I owned a Nexus 4, 5, 6, 7, and 5X, as well as the pixel 1, 4 and now 7. Over the years, I’ve had secondary phones, usually iPhones, but not always, sometimes for work, sometimes just to have something different with me. I think I’ve used the 6/6 SE and one of the cheap ones… I forget which cheap one, but one of them.
Had a Samsung F250L. Neat little phone, decent camera for the time I’ve had it (2008-13). As much as I’d like some dumb phones again, the very least it’d had to have is fucking whatsapp, otherwise i’d be the “incommunicado”. I suspect something running KaiOS would suffice
Depends on “how dumb?” I had a Motorola RZR before my first iPhone(2), then before that, some camera flip phone (Motorola E815), and before that, an SCH-3500 flip phone. Before that, land lines only.
Yeah I switched to Android after iphone removed the headphone jack. Sadly it was only a matter of time before Android followed suit. I had LGs for a while and now I have a pixel.
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