Personally I think the ZenPhone 9 series looked very sleek and cool - especially the in red colour choice.
And Yeah, I used to use one like that.
Downvote me all you want but I actually liked the Surface Phones.
They were well built, I could multitask nicely, the thin bumpers were nice, it wasn’t overly gimmicky. I preferred the divider between the screens.
Downsides…not a flagship in any specs. Also terminated.
I learned about them two weeks before they lost support, wanted one really bad and I’m glad I had only just bought a phone already (Pixel 7a) otherwise I would have bought it only to then look up the update cycle and see it was about to be discontinued.
That being said, reviewers noted at the time that the multitasking on Android was a bit clunky, which may have been an opening for a custom ROM to come in and improve this.
My old mate’s phone stuck with me for decades. Not sure if it’s pleasing but sure is something
Imagine typing a text message with that
Utter nightmare. It doesn’t even lit the available letters in the dark. It’s just bad
My razr. God I miss that phone.
The only right answer. That bad boy was awesome.
Yes! I had the candy bar version, the Slvr.
It scratched that cyberpunk itch.
Iconic. That flip open/snap shut feeling. Insanely thin at the time.
The V3i, I paid full price for that phone when it came out. I modded that thing as much as I possibly could!
BlackBerry passport in red. It’s still in my closet.
I think it was my old Nokia 6600
BlackBerry. Dang I miss them. They were business cool. Now I make due with a Unihertz Titan Slim. And hopefully they upgrade to a second one cause age is showing on mine.
I know it isnt the same form factor but the Titan 2 is coming soon with pre-production units being sent out to people already and estimated release in October.
I had the original titan and will probably get this to try it out but that also means a Titan Slim 2 is a possibility at some point. The key2 that the slim copies is the best phone I ever owned I think!
I sadly had to retire my Key2, easily the nicest phone I’ve owned since 1994.
I bought the Titan but returned it for being so underpowered in comparison. Is the Titan Slim2 going to improve on that?
Yeah. I saw. It’s a potential hopeful that a Slim 2 is on the way. This would make my year. Given the success of this lineup, I feel positive about them following through. But it also means a Pocket 2 before a Slim 2 so we are going to wait for awhile.
I agree. I realise it is a niche market, keyboard phones, but there are still people out there that want them and they seem to be hooking into that market.
Their software isnt the best but I’m hoping in time it will become more refined along with the keyboards getting better with each iteration. BlackBerry had a lot more practice by the time of the passport and key devices so here’s hoping at least one company will fill that gap left behind.
There is a solid Lineage (build) that is floating around that is regularly updated. Been too lazy to do up my phone but now I have incentive.
I know there were a few custom ROMs that took advantage of some of the blackberry apps n such for the original Titan series of phones but j could never get the boot loader to unlock on my original titan so I was always stuck with what they supplied which was fairly lacklustre and was what ultimately pushed me away from the phone.
Well, if you ever fancy another go, there is a Discord community that helps with such situations. That is how I am planning on de-Googling, once I stop being lazy.
The discord community is where I was getting all my information from. I’m sure it has moved on a bit now as this was a few years ago and whilst I do still have the phone I’ll probably wait to get the new one and then I’ll play around.
Ive been running graphene the last 3 years now and I don’t want to go back to google so once I get the titan 2 I’m going to try my best to get some form of Linux going on it. I fucking hate this touchscreen though so I can’t wait!
HTC One M8, hands down no questions. Curved aluminium back, front facing stereo speakers. Fits the hand like a well tailored glove.
There may be fancier looking phones out there, but nothing I’ve ever seen looked cooler.
The HTC UI was also pretty cool, as far as I remember
Came here to post this, I loved that phone. Hmm I wonder what roms exost for it now…
Nokia Lumia series. It is a shame that they did not sell
Loved my Lumia 920 back in the day. A phenomenal phone featuring a fun user experience with the Live Tiles. It was a great phone if you didn’t like apps.
Microsoft gave up too soon. Android was also shit at the start, it only became good around 4.0
The duck phone. The quack when you got a call was annoying, though.
Adding to this again.
Ericsson T28/T39.
HTC Legend, the first smartphone I ever had. I still have several apps from it that I’ve kept carrying across. Comparing them with the stuff you can get now shows how bad apps and widgets have gotten. Anyhow, the phone design was really Nice.
LG Chocolate! I had the white one. It did everything I needed, supported custom ringtones, had paid ring back tones (remember those?), played music, etc. The best thing was being able to text with one hand while not having to look at what you’re typing. Hopefully it’s not nostalgia affecting me with this phone, but it ran flawlessly for years before I eventually upgraded to a Motorola Droid back in the day.
I miss fun phones. I can either have a folding slab, a black slab, or a different slab that comes in other colours. 🥲
I had the Chocolate Flip and loved it.
Edit: looking at it now, it’s just a generic flip phone.Oh I fucking hated ringback tones. What a goddamn terrible idea.
The original HTC Incredible. Comparatively speaking, it was a very modern looking phone. The back was the thing that people noticed. It had a weirdly shaped battery cover back. The physical interface was pretty great and it included an optical cursor or whatever you want to call it.
modern phone gripe
It could be operated with one hand whether you’ve got big hands or small hands. I hate the fact that everything now is available only in phablet and bigger phablet.
And without user swappable batteries. Ugh.
My old Motorola RAZR from the mid-aughts.
