Still have this device somewhere
and 2 HTC Diamonds ( Windows CE ) - lol
I had one of these! Qwerty keyboard on a phone is a thing I sorely miss.
Or AZERTY in this case
Motorola Backflip FTW!
BRING BACK PHYSICAL KEYBOARDS WITH BUTTONS!
The Droid and later Droid 2 will forever be some of my favorite phones.
I still have my droid 2 somewhere. I’d still buy a phone with a physical keyboard. Worst part about that phone was the random reboots and the loud “DROID” sound effect it played when it boots. Happened several times during college lectures and I got yelled at for it at least once.
Had the OG Droid but mine was a weird offshoot that had the rubberized keyboard that became standard in Droid 2.
Travelled from US to Europe and during the trip the keys started falling out 1 by 1. Made it darn near unusable.
Still… Loved that phone and would get a modern day version of it still. Miss those physical keyboard days!
I had this guy (Motorola Cliq) and loved it:
I loved my slider as well. They made texting so much easier. I went from one of those to a blackberry bold.
I did the opposite, kind of - from a Blackberry Pearl to my Cliq.
Texting was def easier on them. Plus it was fun to pop the keyboard out. The slider was very satisfying.
They made great fidget toys.
Back when Google wasn’t evil, had barely killed any products and we were all optimistic about the future of tech.
I miss my N900 with Debian.
This reminds me of a Youtube series a guy did called When Phones Were Fun.
The Nokia N900 was my fond memory. It ran a version of Linux, opening ‘terminal’ on my phone never got old.
I had one of those for a while. That was the best worst phone I ever owned. It was awesome at absolutely everything except being a phone…
I never spoke to anyone so it was fine lol
MeeGo, then Maemo. It lives on in the successor SailfishOS.
I still have my HTC touch dual and my HTC Magic in a drawer somewhere. Those were such exciting phones, coming from a Nokia.
Flashing Cyanogen Rom and custom recoveries felt so bleeding edge. Now a new phone is just an incremental update. A lot more stable and capable, bit kinda boring
Good old times. My first Smartphone was the HTC Desire Z. Loved it :)
Still waiting for HTC to make a G3 :-(
I loved my G2.
It’s in my nightstand drawer now, plump from bad battery bloat. I ran it for 10 years as my bedside alarm clock. It ran a long gone app called NightClock.
bad battery bloat
We call that a “Spicy Pillow” sir
Bloated lithium ion batteries are a fire hazard and should be properly disposed of
Found memories: and the memories are French.
Oui
I would love a Bluetooth keyboard cover like that for my s22
I felt like I skipped this. People my age went to pagers, then sidekick phones, then touch screens.
I went from beeper, to flip phone, then palm pilot.
I must have had serious Wallstreet Stock Broker energy as a teenager.
