Do you ever reminisce about an old phone you had in the past?

Yeah, my LG EnV2. It was a more physically pleasurable thing to use than any phone I’ve had since, because I switched to Android after that. That first Android phone, an LG Ally, was kinda slick too, not as ergonomic and touch screens are a mistake, but…it still felt like progress. Things got better or more capable. I’ve had like four phones since that Ally, and even though they’ve gotten objectively more powerful as computers, they don’t functionally do much more.

Nexus 5 with CopperheadOS . it was such a solid combo in terms of speed and lack of corporate bloatware. Oh, and the vibration mechanism needs to be brought back.

My touch slide. Texting was so tactile and fun. I had snake on it and one more game I can’t remember. I didn’t need more.

The HTC One M9 was the peak of modern smartphone design and it’s all been downhill from there.

I miss my Nokia 8210. I had a case for it that slid open like the one at the start of the matrix. Dropped it in a puddle one night, pulled it out the next morning, dried it off and it kept working just fine. Had no waterproof rating.

I waded into a pool with my supposedly waterproof iPhone in my pocket by accident and it immediately died.

I do miss my Pixel 5a. I think it was the last Pixel to have a headphone port. I have an 8a now and it’s just worse. Effective battery life is MUCH worse and I’m not even sure why. The device itself is a little thicker, no headphone port, the under-screen fingerprint reader is much less effective, the pinhole camera is in a worse location, and other than that it’s pretty much the same.

I would have used my 5a into perpetuity but the screen spontaneously broke one day totally out of nowhere. Didn’t drop it or anything, it just permanently froze while I was using it one time.
Turns out it might have been some moisture problem and people online said that it might work if you put the phone in the freezer. Well, that actually did work and I used it that way for a couple weeks. I would keep my phone in the freezer overnight and it would work for most of the day. But eventually that stopped working and the screen warranty had just ended so I got a new (worse 😡) phone. But I miss the 5a…

No, but I do really miss the iPod Nano that clipped to my jeans

Blackberry phones worked everywhere, anywhere in the world, it was the only system that worked during 9/11.

physical keyboards were faster and more accurate.

6210

Perfect size and shape, good button response, no distracting apps, could provide mobile-internet over IR to a laptop (eg Satellite Pro 4200)(speed was in between 33.6kbps and 56 kbps) .

WAP was a nonsense gimmick.

Solid phone.

Oh boy how I miss using this bad boy:

you can still use these phones.

i have discord and signal messenger on my nokia 7110 with wap-browser shenanigans

I miss my Nexus 6. It was my first Android phone, and got me into tinkering with android. I remember that the device codename, relevant for finding compatible ROMs, was “shamu”. I miss that big old whale

A lot of what I miss is the software side of things. Google Assistant used to be way more capable than it is now. And now they’re replacing that entirely with Gemini.

I want my LG V20 back.

Built in quad-dac that beat fiio devices, and it came apart in 16 screws. Hell all the connectors where even on ribbon cables for ezpz repair jobs

I miss that fuckin thing so much.

Make that phone with a modern SoC, Graphene OS, and a pine-phone esque back-cover keyboard, and I’d be in cellular heaven.

The samsung fliphone. I actually played some awesome games on it as well, and the ringtunes were so good, made my childhood.

I want to say the Motorola Droid, but the Droid III had a dedicated number row which was amazing. Either those or my old Razr v3.