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

No phone will ever work as well as blackberry 10 os did. I miss that shit every day!

I don’t really reminisce, but lament having a Nokia N9 with the meego os and watching Microsoft buy the company and run it into the ground.

The phone was small, quite heavy in comparison, but the icons and ui worked (and still works) with the low px-res UI.

Nokia 7110 because it had a spring loaded keypad cover.

Nokia 8850 because my carrier fucked up the billing and credited my account the amount I was supposed to pay for the monthly repayment plan.

BlackBerry. My kingdom for a decent keyboard.

My Nexus 6P with the finger print sensor on the back. It supported gestures on the fingerprint sensor too, so you could unlock it and then swipe up or down to do an action. I had down swipe as pull down the notification shade, so could check notifications without even touching the screen.

I miss my old Motorola flip phone (way before the razor) grey little thing with a removable battery & an antenna you extended… fit perfectly in small pockets that jeans back then liked to have randomly on the side.

Nexus 4 was so ahead of its time and so cheap. I miss it.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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