I discovered this newfangled tech. mobile phones with built in computers.

[Ichinisan]

It's a phone,,,, I use it for calling people.
I bought it in 2006.
When young people see it they say WoW! it so small.

You can't kill it.

The wife has the smartphone.


Motorola Razr

That's not a typical Razr V3. I think it's a K1.

 

[Mike64]

It's a phone,,,, I use it for calling people.
I bought it in 2006.
When young people see it they say WoW! it so small.

You can't kill it.

The wife has the smartphone.


Motorola Razr

I see your Razr and underbid you one Samsung SCH-U350 (PP, no less).:biggrin:

I bought it because it was cheap, but fell in love with it (despite the worthless camera and the fact that you can only get at the shitty photos it does take by msg-ing them off the phone) because of the "Quick Search" feature that gives you a list of matching contacts when you enter just the keypad number for any of the letters the key also stands for. As much as I"ll probably learn to love a smartphone once I get one, I will miss one-handed look up and dialing. (And since I only barely managed to talk a tech rep into enabling it on my line shortly after VZW started cracking down on the PP exclusion, I'll never be able to swap it back on once I do switch...)

 

[Charmonium]

So Zoolander sorta had it right.

 

[Herr Kutz]

So Zoolander sorta had it right.

I remember when tiny, slim cellphones were all the rage. One of my high school math teachers had an absolutely tiny candy bar phone.

 

[Mike64]

One of my high school math teachers had an absolutely tiny candy bar phone.

I guess you know you're getting old when...you graduated HS two years before commercial cellular service was first made available to the US public ([not to mention a decade or so before any high school teacher without an independent income could afford one].^_^ (Hell, I'm still getting used to the fact the people born in the early 1990s (the 90s, ferchrissake) can be gainfully employed, more or less fully grown adults.)

 

[Charmonium]

(Hell, I'm still getting used to the fact the people born in the early 1990s (the 90s, ferchrissake) can be gainfully employed, more or less fully grown adults.)

I don't think that word means what you think it means. Hehehe.

 

[Mike64]

I don't think that word means what you think it means. Hehehe.

Well, I think it does, anyway. I did after all say "more or less", and can be, rather than (necessarily) are. Not to mention that you weren't, due to some unfortunate misconstruction, thinking I was referring to anyone in particular here, were you?:\/

 

[Fritzo]

So Zoolander sorta had it right.

For a while, I sported something close: the Motorola Vadr. It was the smallest cell phone in the world at one point:

 

[FeuerFrei]

I see your Razr and underbid you one Samsung SCH-U350 (PP, no less).:biggrin:

I bought it because it was cheap, but fell in love with it (despite the worthless camera and the fact that you can only get at the shitty photos it does take by msg-ing them off the phone) because of the "Quick Search" feature that gives you a list of matching contacts when you enter just the keypad number for any of the letters the key also stands for. As much as I"ll probably learn to love a smartphone once I get one, I will miss one-handed look up and dialing. (And since I only barely managed to talk a tech rep into enabling it on my line shortly after VZW started cracking down on the PP exclusion, I'll never be able to swap it back on once I do switch...)

Yo dog, that's my phone. Had it since 2010. Flippity-flip.
The case cost more than the phone! Only accessory I bought.

 

[IronWing]

I see your Razr and underbid you one Samsung SCH-U350 (PP, no less).:biggrin:

I bought it because it was cheap, but fell in love with it (despite the worthless camera and the fact that you can only get at the shitty photos it does take by msg-ing them off the phone) because of the "Quick Search" feature that gives you a list of matching contacts when you enter just the keypad number for any of the letters the key also stands for. As much as I"ll probably learn to love a smartphone once I get one, I will miss one-handed look up and dialing. (And since I only barely managed to talk a tech rep into enabling it on my line shortly after VZW started cracking down on the PP exclusion, I'll never be able to swap it back on once I do switch...)

Representing here. The front screen and camera lens on mine got cooked on my car console (literally, Arizona heat) so only the main screen still works. The only thing wrong with this phone is that some dumbass thought it would be a good idea to 1) have the voice command button on the outside edge of the phone, and 2) thought it would be a good idea to have the phone randomly dial numbers from the contact list if it couldn't understand voice commands. Nothing more annoying than to be out hiking when the phone starts talking while buried in my pack, knowing I have only a few seconds before one of my co-workers gets butt dialed.

 

[Charmonium]

Mike64 - can't quote your post for some reason.

I invoke my fifth amendment rights. :whiste:

 

[FeuerFrei]

Representing here. The front screen and camera lens on mine got cooked on my car console (literally, Arizona heat) so only the main screen still works. The only thing wrong with this phone is that some dumbass thought it would be a good idea to 1) have the voice command button on the outside edge of the phone, and 2) thought it would be a good idea to have the phone randomly dial numbers from the contact list if it couldn't understand voice commands. Nothing more annoying than to be out hiking when the phone starts talking while buried in my pack, knowing I have only a few seconds before one of my co-workers gets butt dialed.

My phone case has cut outs for (in)convenient button access. I pick it up and it talks sometimes.

phone: "Please, say a command."
me: "Please, shut up."
phone: "Who should I call? Say a name."
me: "Please, shut up."
phone: "Did you say, 'Call mom'?"
me: ...
phone: ... "no match found"

One time it actually completed a call, thanks to background noise.

 

[Shawn]

Dang, I thought I was a late adopter. Didn't get a smart phone until 2010. Main reason though was the $30 extra a month price gouging from Verizon at the time.

 

[Shawn]

I paid 15 dollars for the flip phone I use now. I have several computers to use for computer things...

Between my xbox one, my smartphone, and my smart tvs, I pretty much never use my desktop anymore.

 

[Mike64]

Nothing more annoying than to be out hiking when the phone starts talking while buried in my pack, knowing I have only a few seconds before one of my co-workers gets butt dialed.

Wow, this reminds me that I haven't heard my phone squawking from my pocket for a really long time now. It used to do it all the damned time, driving me, like you, batty in the process. As far as I can tell, I'm not doing anything differently these days, though. Maybe the contact just finally got worn down to a more reasonable sensitivity level...

OTOH, it does still take "pocket photos" all the time, but that stopped being a problem once I discovered (after more years than I care to admit^_^) that you can mass-delete them all at once with just a few key presses. (Before that, I spent sometimes mind-boggling amounts of time sitting on the subway deleting the damned things one-by-one.)

 

[woolfe9998]

I resisted for a long while. I can't stand computing on a tiny screen, with a tiny keypad, and my aging eyesight. I've had 1 droid and 2 iphones in the past three years. I still dislike them, but the fact of their mobility creates situations where there is added utility. So I've gone on with the inevitable.

Nonetheless, my preferred mode for computing remains the grand old desktop computer, with its really large screen and comfortable keyboard. Which makes me a dinosaur, I suppose.

 

[escrow4]

I bought this:

http://www.gsmarena.com/vodafone_smart_first_6-7231.php

I then disabled as much of the Google crap I possible could, removed all the shortcuts from the home screen and only left the dialler and messaging. Nearly dumbphone battery life, and txting is rather easier than a candybar. Cost me a bit over $30.

This is the modern equivalent of a dumbphone. I tried the whole app thing over the past year and a bit on different Androids and gave up. I spend less than $5 a month on prepaid credit and I'll be disappointed if the company I'm with drops the plan as other longer life options are not as cheap.

The very first Android phone I had was back in 2008 or 2009, still have it, then used mostly dumbphones up to now, minus 2 Windows phones, one of which I still have.