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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ok, but that webpad genuinely seems way ahead of it's time. I want a webpad, and I'm 1000000% sure it's software is so out of date it would be like running windows 3.1 today.

Still though. How awesome does the webpad look?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nokia were doing insanely awesome things with their hardware, beyond basically building phones which were impervious to standard human idiocy (hi, I am an average human idiot).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anddd now we have boring slab design, thanks Steve Apple.

But there are tries to make flip phones again with bendy screens - too fragile I think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The biggest problem with that is sadly the most functional design also happens to be the most boring.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They released a crude version of the model in the thumbnail. It was the 5510.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had one in high school. The design was kinda gimmicky but the phone had good features for its time. it had an FM radio receiver, and I remember you could even transfer MP3 files onto it, although it was a hassle to do so.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Paywall, so I can't see the others, but the one on the thumbnail isn't that different to the N-Gage

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks, was just going to post this. I've added the non-paywall link to the post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Nokia Jaws was the best.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nokia were crazy back in the day but I think people may remember them a bit too fondly. I remember how whenever there was some new tech or idea they would absolutely trickle them out just to try and squeeze as much money out of you as possible. If there were two new pieces of tech they’d release two phones, with each of them having one of the new pieces of tech. Back in those days they just refused to make the absolute best phone possible. That’s one of the biggest changes that came from the iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You not think it could've been a cost saving measure too though and that putting the two new pieces of tech in one phone would've made it too expensive for anyone to buy

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