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Thank you for the unpaywalled link.
That feature photo device is a text-er’s dream. You could probably get some serious speed out of it.
Would that thing run any kind of Unix (I'd prefer one of the BSDs, but Linux is fine), I think on such a keyboard I could really use it for many things. As cool as PSP Slim, but more universal.
Yep. That would be great for gaming. Just swap out the rocker on the right side for a stubby joystick and you’d be off and running.
When I was a horny young man, I had this bad boy and a connection with "unlimited SMS to five chosen numbers" (you could then change those numbers but it'd cost you a little). It was only "unlimited" for the month it came out and the next month and then schools began and all us teenagers were texting each other in class under the table for absolutely no reason.
And the next month the "unlimited" became 1000 sms, to each of your five numbers or total I forget.
What a monster. Yeah, I definitely don’t miss the old days of the cellular companies vying to offer consumers the least shitty rates and constantly manipulating plans.
And you know what this thing could do?
It had FM radio and you had the capacity to record songs off the fking radio. In 2003. That was beyond crazy. I mean you can do that at home with a cassette player, but since this had a radio and recorder, it was basically one of those boomboxes people's carried around in the 80's. Functionally, if only because you had earphones and listened to it yourself.
Although the quality would horrify the HiFi people, especially anyone under 30 or so. They weren't mp3, more like AMR/ACR whatever have you. (A proprietary format called LSE).
I vividly remember the sights and smells of walking and listening to Eminem - Lose Yourself on a very specific path I used to walk in the woods.
Gods I miss being a kid.
Edit to make it clear about the phone, it was essentially an improved 3310 (the classic unbreakable nokia) with a different case so it had qwerty and a few other improved features (like I think even WAP basically which was like a very crude mobile internet) and a few added games, like the 3330 (which was this improved version but in a standard Nokia 3310 case, with very minor alteration of a few mm)
I miss when phones weren’t all black obelisks. I mean, the features today are incredible and far surpass anything available 20 years ago, but the variety of tactile features and colors was incredible back then.
I would very much prefer actual physical buttons to write with.
I'm impatient and write fast and the tactile feedback is so shit I use the mid correction after seeing it's the correct one but often I misclick and don't proofread so I end up with a lot of silly mistakes.
(I do proofread emails and whatnot but like not mobile posted Lemmy comments)