Plus, if you had a contract, you’d get a “free” one every two years, and you didn’t have to pay for the cell phone itself, in addition to your monthly bill, as long as it was covered under one of those promotions.
That's a good point. They weren't as significant of a financial decision as they are now. I remember when the price of the first iPhone was set, it seemed absolutely bonkers that there would/could ever be a market for a five-HUNDRED dollar phone. "Regular" phones weren't even half that when they were on contract.
God I hated that air gap lol! The one phone I had which was nice at first until it was absolute garbage was the LG Voyager. After a while the touch screen was just so unusable. I miss the charm and how exciting new tech was at the time, but I would not trade my current phone for any of them lol.
I had a Voyager too and can confirm it was dogshit. The selling point was the touchscreen but it still used a basic dumb-phone OS so there wasn't even anything cool you could use it for. I do still miss early Android phones with slide-out keyboards though
Are y'all out here reselling your phones? I'm always pretending I'm gonna resell my phone, treating it like a delicate princess, but I ain't never sold one; they all just become spicy pillows in shoeboxes in a closet somewhere in the many rooms of my giant mansion.
Same, except the back corner of my dresser. I've got a stack of them that include my iPhone 3G, a Samsung Galaxy Note4, and a Nokia Lumia 1520 Windows phone.
When I get a new one, I keep the old one that's barely functional in case my new phone breaks. It's never been necessary. I usually just fix my current phone.
Yeah, truth be told modern smartphones are a LOT more durable minus the display.
Many of these old phones would completely burst/rupture dropped from only a couple feet. The removable battery did not help and that would be the first thing to fly like shrapnel in a random direction.
Plus they also scratched easily.
Modern smartphones have some vulnerabilities but are a much better shape and more structurally sound than the rounded bricks many actually surviving falls from 10s of feet.
I miss my old work Blackberry so much from the early 2000s, those things were tanks, like one of the few phones you could use to crush a Nokia brick of the day
Not that Samsung but i lost my Nokia (THE Nokia) off the top of a 150’ water tower. Found it in the grass later and it was working just as fine as ever.
I had a flip phone in the early 2000's that was missing a piece of the pull out antenna, missing face and side buttons, broken face screen and the battery was held on with packing tape. When I worked at a ranch as a teen a horse stepped on it. It still turns on and works today.
nah, I had one of these and it started getting hot in my pocket while I was driving to work. I threw it onto the passenger side floor when it started to burn me and it melted my rubber floor mat. I thought it was going to catch fire while I was in heavy traffic on the interstate.
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