2001 fans when the iPad was released.
I had that model of phone. Of 3 or 4 flip phones I had over the years. that one made me feel the most like I was using a TOS communicator.
Still rocking one 😎
Edit/Bonus: Watching DS9 on a flip phone, as far away from the concept of god as possible:
Have you included the chirp as your notifications?
Still using Voyager door chime: https://www.trekcore.com/audio/doors/voy_door_chime.mp3
If/when I tire of that, I’m absolutely going to switch to the communicator chirp. Sadly, I haven’t found a way to play a sound when I flip it open.
As great as it would be to have it chirp every time you open it, I think that would probably get annoying after a while.
You mix it up by programming the chirp and a random panicked message from your crew that:
- a Klingon ship has decloaked
- the Cardassians are contacting us
- a Borg ship has been detected
- we’ve lost main ship power and we are on emergency power only
- the ships gravity assist is malfunctioning
- we’ve detected a space-time rift in your area
- a Gorn colony has been detected in your area
What??
This is amazing.
Very low-end Android phone I dumbed down for a “30 day dumbphone challenge” (wanted to be able to re-purpose it / un-dumb it afterward). Ended up liking it so much, I stuck with it as my daily driver.
Reminds me of simpler times. Please reassure me that this isn’t how you’re browsing Lemmy though…
As gen X/Y, we should exclusively be shitposting in T9
T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I’m doing I’ll still say thigns loke this.
T9 took significantly longer to type with. I rocked a flip phone and enjoyed how engaging t9 was and the added time cost acted as a buffer so that I was less likely to use the device for frivolous stuff.
I was proficient at T9 in a way that I just haven’t been able to build with an onscreen keyboard. I endnup typingblikenthis because I can’t feel where the space bar is, and having to go back and fix everything is a pain. So you either end up incomprehensible or you turn on autocorrect and end up typing like ducking shot.
Are you referring to having to press the
2key three times in order to type the letterc? Usually T9 refers to the type of predictive text where you can press just43556and the phone predicts that you are typinghello
Blackberry died for this.
No they didn’t, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn’t make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.
If they ever come out with retro flip phones I’m gonna be like Jadzia in the 2260s:
All this talk about flip phones, I almost forgot bag phones existed:
My dad had one of those. My mum decided it was dirty one day and put it in the washing machine.
Dad called too many of those 1-900 chat lines from the 90s?
That reminds me of satchel charges from Red Faction.
Actually, looked it up and found it didn’t resemble what I remembered (and was called the “remote charge” in the first game of the series): https://redfactionwiki.com/wiki/Remote_Charge
I remembered a green bag with an antenna sticking out of the top, very mildly visually reminiscent of your photo. Wonder what game that was.
You’re thinking of the original half life. https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Satchel_Charge
That appears to be correct.
Thank you!
And stay mobile my friends.
Nothing has been as cool as the Matrix’ Nokia 8110 with the spring loaded slider. To this day.
Cram all the computing power of a modern phone into something other than the same, nerd ass, actuary in a brown suit looking candy bar phones.
I have a flip phone still.
That was a golden age for sure.
Why does this have nutrek people for something that came out 15-20 years before nutrek?
