I have an s3, which is my first smart phone. My SO has a dumb "smartphone", ie a shitty android phone.
I know plenty of people that use dumb phones (none android/IOS), gladdly I am not one of them. Its so nice to be able to do a ton of stuff on my phone that I would otherwise not be able to do without a dedicated device. Quickly surf the net, play music, games/emulators, HD pictures/video, read books. I love my smart phone.
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omg i used to own the exact same phone two years ago!! but then i got an s3 cuz the xpress music 5800 got outdated and slow
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I use 2 phones, a Nokia 5130 and a Samsung Galaxy Ace.
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i like the old style flip phone that doesn't do anything but make calls...actually it displayed the time too but thats it. they're more durable(crushed, dropped in a lake ect) and seemed to get a better signal. now i have a really really basic smartphone though since it was one of those basically free with contract things
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Indeed. I used to never even look at my phone, the battery would die off and I'd just leave it that way for days, some times weeks...
It's hard to imagine you'll become so addicted to such a thing before you have one in which you can install a bunch of apps for so many things, and that'll flood you with all kinds of notifications. ):
Now I sleep right next to it, it's the first thing I check when I wake up, I use it when I'm lost somewhere, to know when to jump off a bus if it's one I never took, to play, to keep organized, for notes, pictures, 'scanning' documents on the go...
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Nope HTC One, also who cares if it doesn't make any message sound, I can't even stand those annoying sounds, everytime I'm hearing this Samsung whistle sound I have to hold myself back from taking the phone and throwing it against some wall.
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Went through enough crappy phones. Started with a 600 MHZ LG Optimus V from virgin mobile, only to find out that you lose reception in every building. I can't even resell it! It cost me a whopping $140 when I bought it and it reduced down to $50 during Black Friday of the same year. This was back when only rich people with contracts owned smartphones. The next one I got was an HTC Mytouch 4G Slide. This phone was awesome! I bought it with no warranty, no charger, and a big crack in the screen, but I didn't care. A new one would have cost me $400, but I got it for $75. This phone kicked butt with it's 8MP camera, full 1080p Video capture, TV AV out, slide out physical keyboard (no more typing goofle.com like on my ipod touch). It was a 1.2 GHZ dual-core phone that did the job. Then one day, it died on me, I lost all my contacts that weren't synced, and was forced to resort back to a flip phone. Getting fed up with trying to text on said flip phone, I bought an Alcatel One Touch Evolve for $50 at Target. This phone was pretty good for a cheap phone, especially because it was packaged with two batteries (probably a manufacturing error) Then, I eventually got my Google Nexus 5 unlocked phone that I have now. This phone is more powerful than some laptops. Sorry for the life story post.
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Planning on using my LG Optimus V to mine bitcoins or something to put it to use.
I am keeping the Alcatel phone as a backup.
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im using a nokia Nokia 6303 and i dont intend to switch it out for a smartphone until it stops working since i mostly use it as a clock and sometimes to make calls :P
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I'm using a N85. I always wanted to have this phone since release and I never regret get it. I have it a a year, but 2nd handed(from someone I know and trust), so it's much older(I think it was bought when it was released).
The only think I feel bad about is that Symbian community looks dead, or I can't find any alive xD. Wanted to try N-Gage 2.0 but it was discontinued.
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Fuck no, I bought the Nexus 5 last month and it's by far the smartest purchase I've made in a while, since I actively use my phone, even more as an all-purpose media device than just a phone
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I don't have a cellphone and i don't want one.
If necessary i got an old one that does nothing else but phone calls but does have dual sim for when i travel around but i only charge it/take it when i need, the rest of the time it takes the dust.
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The only reason why I ever charge up my old phones again and spend a little time with them is for a nostalgic "retro" handheld gaming kick, as well as one that doesn't hurt the battery on the phone I actually need staying alive.
However I generally find myself wanting a smaller, slightly cheaper, version of whatever the current latest and greatest is because the power scaling on phones hasn't yet reached the point where it's enough. There's always some inefficient lag that needs more power thrown at it (since apparently it actually being fixed and made more efficient on the dev side is out of the picture), or some pixelation in the pics that needs more Megapixels, or a battery that needs to be able to juice all that power for a couple more hours, or I might even be lucky enough to get an extra day.
And then the 90s GPU 3D gaming explosion is already coming to smartphones so if you wanna play the latest and greatest racer from Gameloft or EA or whoever, which I usually do, then you'll need the additional horsepower which only a new phone can provide. And thanks to Google's new changes on Android storage everyone who can't buy a 64GB flagship and has to purchase further down the food chain is also always hoping for more user storage from the next set of phone in their budget range.
So for now, I always eagerly await my bi-yearly contract "upgrade" (really it's just a new 2 year contract) because it always brings the promise of kissing all the annoyances of my old phone goodbye (low battery life, low storage, lack of GPU power, lag, pixelated pics) and hopefully this time getting it right. Maybe it will be enough this time, surely 8MP will produce perfect pictures..., I meant it's 3 more than the 5MP in the previous phone and those pics were okayish...but unfortunately here I am already looking forward to getting a phone with a 12 or 16MP cam next time around since there are still sooo many jaggies left at 8MP, especially when zooming.
Just to get back to the topic though, I still have in my drawer the following old phones which occasionally get turned on for that "retro" gaming kick I mentioned:
Nokia 6020
Nokia 6110 Navigator
Nokia 6710 Navigator
Sony Ericsson Xperia neo (this one is a droid already though, but a rather old one considering current tech)
Unfortunately the Nokia 5110 and 3330 which I had before those both died so I can't go back to the black and white days.
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Wow i had Nokia 5800 (blue one) a couple of years ago and it was amazing, but then i bought Asus PadFone 2 (which was a piece of shit) and now i've had Note 3 for about 5 months :)
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I have Samsung Galaxy S2 for music/net, but it's already 3 years old so not the fastest thing :D
and
Nokia 100 for calls/sms
had my old Nokia 3220 before Nokia 100 and Nokia E51 before that but I kinda managed to kill both :( Sad, cause I loved that E51 :)
overall had Nokia 1100, Nokia X6 and Alcatel OT 332 (Piece Of Sh*t) sometime in past :)
Gonna tell that I agree with having non-smartphone. I have mine only for music'n'stuff and barely using it as phone. My current non-smartphone isn't that old but it's much better for phone stuff. I can fetch it out of my pocket in no time while I need so much time to get my smartphone out, unplug headphones (I can't speak with headphones cause it keeps playing music while in call that way :D) and it sometimes takes too much time until phones stops ringing :D
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I had a dumbphone for 7 years (a Siemens S65). This summer, the battery died and there's no place to buy a new one for this phone. And even if there is one, the battery would be more expensive than a new phone.
So I got an Android (LG Optimus L9 with a big-ass screen and whatnot). The "smart" stuff on it goes pretty much unused, except for the media player for listening to music/radio and playing adventures on ScummVM on the road. I can't even remember when I last activated the wi-fi on the thing.
I would never buy one of those 700$/€ "top" phones (iPhone or Android). I paid 200 for mine and still think it was a bit too much for what I do with it.
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Ah, hello there!
So, the other day I was surfing the internet as usual, and I found some guy on some forum saying that he does not own any of these newer cell phones like iOS or Android, and the he's probably the only one is this world we live in.
Well, is he?
He's not. I find myself using the same fucking phone for 5 years in a row now, it's slow as hell and it doesn't even make a sound when I get a text message. But is it any good? Well I can listen to music, text people and call them, that's pretty much what I need it to do! Btw my phone is the glorious Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, the red one.
It's not that I want one of these, even if I had the money right now (which I don't), I wouldn't buy one, I'd be better buying a new PC or something else, but that's my opinion.
What's your opinion?
Do you have any "old" phone(s) you still use?
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