Discussion: If we remove the Nokia Brick Cell Phone from the conversation: What Cell Phone did you own back in the day, that you have the fondest memories of?

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Eazy12345678@reddit

yeah i think LG made a phone like that.

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Far-Bumblebee-7216@reddit

I had a Razr once upon a time and loved it.

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stations-creation@reddit

I had the bubblegum pink one, I think I paid $100 for it and all my friends thought I was CRAZY! My life was so fun in the flip phone era.

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FoofaFighters@reddit

LG enV Touch, OG Droid. I remember the enV had a two-step power button that worked as the camera button, you pushed it partway to focus, then all the way to take the picture, just like a camera.

The OG Droid...never been a better smartphone. I went on vacation in 2011, and walked into the ocean the first goddamn day with the poor thing still in my pocket.

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spatter_cone@reddit

I had the non-flip version of this phone, I think it was the SLVR or something. I loved that thing!

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CSWorldChamp@reddit

Came here to say this. Hell of a piece of tech.

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PrideEnvironmental59@reddit

Omg yes I loved my Razr. I had a sweet gold colored one, was awesome.

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Doctor_of_Rockology@reddit

Same, but only because that was the model that was on sale.

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OkAdagio9622@reddit

I beat you all. I had the Miami Ink Razr phone. 🤣.

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amayain@reddit

I bet you had to fight the ladies off

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hipkat13@reddit

Mine was candy apple red! So pretty! I was very proud of it.

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dsly4425@reddit

I hated the razr when I owned it. My favorite Motorola was probably the V60.

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_cats_@reddit

The SLVR was where it’s at. First phone with iTunes.

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luckyfucker13@reddit

I loved mine too, but that proprietary chunky connection for the headphones was the fucking worst. So unnecessary.

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Repulsive_Tie_7941@reddit

My RAZR was my only pre iPhone that I liked.

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QuietNene@reddit

Only answer. I felt so cool having this phone.

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OregonResident@reddit

I loved the Razr. Then I’d watch episodes of 24 where they’d use it like an iPhone and I’d be like “why can’t mine do that?”

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padreubu@reddit

As someone with a beard, the keyboard on the Razr always, ALWAYS, pulled my facial hair when I talked on it

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ebzees@reddit

You mean a razr didn’t work on your beard? 🤗

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_ficklelilpickle@reddit

I had a v3i. iTunes integrated. I felt like a god. Until I had to load music onto it and try to use it and it was slow as to do everything LOL

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Glittering_Rest_1607@reddit

This is literally peak everything for me. Phone, Reddit, internet. The RAZR was that special to me.

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Forsythia77@reddit

I loved my hot pink RAZR. She was the coolest.

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actualelainebenes@reddit

I also had a RAZR, mine would ring at work even though I would have it on silent and my boss at the time was not happy lol

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

My third or fourth phone was a razr. Its battery half melted in my pocket on a flight and killed it.

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Plumeria9798@reddit

Yep. Definitely my RAZR, no contest. I’d go back to it if I could.

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johnvalley86@reddit

Came here to say the same thing. Slapping that bad boy shut after an angry phone call was very satisfying

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sertraline_dreams@reddit

My last phone before smartphones took over - the LG rumour. I loved sliding that keyboard open!

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DontYuckMyYum@reddit

this will always be my favorite phone ever!

it had AIM and Yahoo Messenger, you could even text status updates to your facebook feed.
I did so much texting on this thing!

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Dorkus_Mallorkus@reddit

I was trying to remember what this was called. My absolute favorite as well. Loved the full push-button keyboard.

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DontYuckMyYum@reddit

This is the thought ng I miss the most from this era of phones. I absolutely hate on screen keyboards.

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winston198451@reddit

This was another goodie on my list. It was such a great design. It was like "business up front, party in the back".

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M3L03Y@reddit

Never owned a Nokia brick phone.

My first mobile was a Motorola Analog StarTac.

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

I had an indestructible Sanyo in 2007

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sneh_@reddit

I loved having a full keyboard (Nokia 5510)

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lurker512879@reddit

Similar to pictured one, but with swivel camera in the middle. You could act like a spy and click shots wherever just chand the angle for crisp half megapixel quality

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Sensitive_Falcon_558@reddit

I still think about my blackberry with the trackball

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pseudo_nipple@reddit

Saaaaame!! I friggin loved that thing. I had a pink one, a white one & a purple one at some point. I would go back to that BlackBerry if I could, even though I love my Pixels.

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Wifabota@reddit

I had the Curve. I loved each key being a shortcut so much. I could type without looking. It's really the only phone I have missed and would go back to.

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TomPalmer1979@reddit

Without a doubt the RAZR. It was, at the time, the coolest phone ever released, it was iconic. You weren't cool if you didn't have a RAZR and I was thrilled to finally get one.

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I saw the prototype for the sidekick when I worked in an office supply store in the Bay Area. Someone brought one in and showed me. They said it would be $99 (with contract of course). I said “this is awesome, it’s going to be huge.” At the time there wasn’t a good qwerty keyboard phone for the regular consumer. The sidekick had a spacious keyboard and that spin around screen. I think later versions had a sliding screen, could be wrong.

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nightdrive370z@reddit

Sidekick

MAN. I miss that phone TO THIS DAY. I can't type as well on any touch screen since, period. I did 120 words per minute on that bitch.

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DontYuckMyYum@reddit

i wanted one of these so bad but my family was a verizon household, so I wound up with an enV3.

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firesmarter@reddit

I had Verizon and also wanted one. I got the droid 2 special edition r2d2. I still have it somewhere, I loved that thing so much

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Cryptographer_Prize@reddit

This is the answer

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JennaHelen@reddit

Light pink Motorola Razr

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terminal_nervoso@reddit

Sony Ericsson t610. I miss this phone every day, and I would go back to it in a heartbeat.

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APFernweh@reddit

Hot pink RAZR

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ikbah_riak@reddit

Siemans C10/25

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RoiVampire@reddit

Any LG phone from the early 2000s kicked all kinds of ass. Battery life, toughness, easy to troubleshoot, just the best

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Skitzafranik@reddit

This was mine in college !!!🤣

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droneupuk@reddit

I'm accidentally flushed that phone down the toilet the day I moved into a new apartment. Freaked out it would block the pipes but everythign was fine.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

Before they ruined them with compact keyboards and track balls. The Apple calendar is barely just caught up to this thing.

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Doctor_of_Rockology@reddit

I really miss my old HTC Snap.

It did everything I needed a phone to do at the time, was nice and slim, and had a microSD slot so I could load it up with custom-created MP3 ringtones.

And the keyboard made for easier texting.

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AdjunctFunktopus@reddit

Motorola V60. It was the cool phone for about a week. Then the Razr came out.

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dsly4425@reddit

I liked it better than the razr. I’m still salty mine got stolen out of my car. Asshats even left the charger that it was plugged into.

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twolfhawk@reddit

Lg Trax. First phone that had MP3 ringtone and would play music

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HotgunColdheart@reddit

Walkmans, both models i had were cool. Had Razr that were great too, one of mine broke in half and I kept using the bottom for nearly a month, called it "Zr"(zor)

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Late_Combination702@reddit

That Nextel phone that had the walkie talkie feature ... oh that chirp sound 😂😂

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aoerstroem@reddit

Loving everything about this. Why have I only just learned of this?

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Brent_L@reddit

How did you miss this? What a time to be alive. I had this for years until Sprint bought them.

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aoerstroem@reddit

I am not from the States, which may be why. I don’t remember these being a thing in Scandinavia

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Brent_L@reddit

Ah that makes sense. It was so cool and so much fun. Free incoming calls and/or free calls after 19:00. The walkie talkie worked nationwide and was included in your plan. So we never used the phone, just the two-way walkie talkie.

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vandamnitman@reddit

It was phenomenal!

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StephInTheLaw@reddit

That direct connect sound haunts my dreams. It was very useful but text messaging is so much better.

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vikmaychib@reddit

Looks like a minion

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jack-t-o-r-s@reddit

OMG you just unlocked a decade of memories with my Nextels...

We used to have codes to check who we were calling was with before we said anything "sensitive"

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6BigZ6@reddit

Worked in construction and that was always the go to because of the ptt walkie feature. I remember when we bought our entire team new Nextel’s. Everyone got that yellow one, except for the lead guys, and I bought myself the super fancy flip with the color lcd on the outside flip, and bought and aftermarket case and pimped that thing out.

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Darkspiff73@reddit

Everyone I knew had this in the mid 2000’s. It was great when talk rates were still kind of expensive.

I seemed to be the only one who realized that you could chirp without it being on speaker though…

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Dando_Calrisian@reddit

Siemens SL55! Sure the reliability was somewhat questionable, personally had 2 new screens and 3 keypads in 12 months, but when it worked it was a nice little thing

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Glendale0839@reddit

Silver original Motorola Razr that I thought was the coolest phone ever at the time. I wore it on a belt clip like a corporate dork.

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duckythechikn@reddit

I still have a Sanyo like the one pictured AND IT STILL POWERS UP. Also still has some pics on it. It was my first phone.

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electrotwelve@reddit

Sony Ericsson T310.

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fakeaccount572@reddit

Samsung Blackjack 2. Ran Windows Mobile, and I loved it.

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MeanWafer904@reddit

Nokia 5210

or a rebranded HTC Wizard

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puunjob@reddit

Treo 650 was the shit when it came out.

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rinky79@reddit

I loved my Sony Ericsson candybar and slider phones.

Had ones close to these models:

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Wallfacer218@reddit

Ericsson (before Sony bought them). That brick was awesome. My first and best phone.

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JonnyQuest1981@reddit

The SLVR conveniently fit in the 5th pocket of my jeans as if that were intentional.

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MarduckRulez@reddit

Helio Ocean in 2007. Dual slide mechanism with Internet and AOL AIM! This was the next level in my world.

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Damn_DirtyApe@reddit

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SignificantApricot69@reddit

But what about Motorola brick?

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alwaysmanders@reddit

My hot pink razr

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hamburgler26@reddit

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markdepace@reddit

lost mine getting out of my car at the mall... had the belt clip and it must have flipped off. kept calling my own phone until the person that found it picked up. offered them $100 just to return it and they said no. sucked lol

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redditshy@reddit

Rude.

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markdepace@reddit

probably got sick of hearing it ring 😂 i never did get a replacement startac, wound up with some junky replacement until i got a windows phone and then ultimately, an iphone 3gs

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redditshy@reddit

Once I was in an airport, making a flight connection. I had used the washroom, was walking in the terminal, and thought WAIT, do I have my phone? Tapped my Apple Watch to make the phone play the found sound. I hear it going off in the bottom of a plastic bag held by a woman who was rushing by. At first she picked up the pace, and kept looking straight ahead. I kept tapping my watch and looking straight at her as I was quickly approaching, and she finally stopped. Had I not played that sound RIGHT THEN, I probably would not have heard it much longer. Little shit!

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PeanutbutterDaydream@reddit

I had an unfortunately similar experience with my StarTac at the mall. Mine was dropped in a JCPenny's dressing room. My friends helped me search as much as we could, but I had run to the Verizon kiosk and ask them to try calling it multiple times (my friends didn't want to waste their minutes for nothing lol). I hope whomever took it has suffered endless flat tires and a weird smell that never leaves their fridge.

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Pumperkin@reddit

Fuckin brutal on all accounts.

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CheckYourStats@reddit (OP)

Omg. Belt clips.

I forgot how belt clips were a staple for a solid 2-3 years.

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SpookDaDook@reddit

I had one, seemed so futuristic at the time. One night the local radio station was giving away opening day Yankees tickets and they answered with a you won followed by silence. The battery died.

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winston198451@reddit

The Startac was simply awesome! I loved that I could fit it in the shoulder pocket of my flight jacket.

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Stiffy4Freedom@reddit

Yes!!! Loved the StarTAC and honestly wish tjis still was a thing. I will also add my "will grab a signal no matter what" Ericsson A1228d.

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jazzyjff13@reddit

Loved my Startec

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pnothing@reddit

I recall it as Startac with an a. Was a it a regional thing?

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sirpjtheknight@reddit

I remember when mine got a software update to support this newfangled thing called text messaging.

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Lord-Megadrive@reddit

I remember with mine how with texts originally you replied to the message but you still had to remember the number, then manually enter said number and you couldn’t get the number from the phone book, because you had to type the number in manually. Back then I could remember all my mates and families land lines and mobile numbers. Oh and because it didn’t have onboard memory as such all you contacts saved to the sim (which was the size of a credit card) and only space for 99(?) contacts.

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brainvheart143@reddit

I loved mine extra bc of the Motorola symbol, it gives you wings. It was during that ad w/ the Rolling Stones’ “you can’t always get what you want”

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xt0rt@reddit

This is what I came to say! Although it was my work phone, and I don't think it had a texting plan.

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0MGWTFL0LBBQ@reddit

I actually still have my Startac! It’s in a box in my garage. I’m really not sure how I’ve managed to keep it around for almost 30 years.

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irrelevant_user_name@reddit

Anyone else buy a light up antenna for their Startac? Mine was blue.

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Mc-Laney@reddit

First one was a cheap Motorola with WAP i bought 2000. Never used the internet-function because it was too expensive and not really useful. The next one was a white Nokia 3330 in 2002. Later in 2004 i switched to Sony Ericsson. First one was a T630 which I liked, but the camera was more an excuse then a feature, but it had a colour display and you could play more or less complex games with it. Two years later I got a W880i. The second Walk Man-mobile by Sony. It came with a 512 MB storage card. This was the time I started to listen to music on a mobile device. Not much storage, but at that time mp3-files were mostly in 128 or 192kbps. Before I went to Smartphones in 2010 I had a C902. The focus was on the camera, but I used it as a mp3-player also. You had to slide it open to use the camera. Really nice and compact design.

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blantdebedre@reddit

Motorola with a retractable antenna. No fond memories though.

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Efficient-Log-4425@reddit

I had that same phone. Bought it at the Circuit City I worked at.

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S_A_R_K@reddit

LG vx6000

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Trismesjistus@reddit

This one is what I was looking for! it wasn't my first but it was one of my favorite pre smartphone phones. But I've never been able to remember what it was called.

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1ConsiderateAsshole@reddit

BlackBerry Pearl

My last phone before Apple killed them.

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firefighter_82@reddit

That fucking track ball though

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JohnnyBacci@reddit

I had this sweet sweet gold and black Ericsson flip phone with a built in clip. It was my first phone. I loved it

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Barnold4All@reddit

This Sony Walkman phone was awesome. I loved the sliding motion. I loaded it up with my ripped music library and it took really good photos.

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Pretend-Ad-9504@reddit

Samsung SCH-3500 circa 1999

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Klingsam@reddit

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mommiecubed@reddit

A phone that had a slide out keyboard. I’d click-clack that thing all thentime

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GreedyRaisin3357@reddit

That's the first camera phone I ever saw.. my dad had this one 'Sprint PCS' by Sanyo

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devils_nachos@reddit

LG Envy with the LG Chocolate in a close second.🤌 I still have them.

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GrtWhtSharky@reddit

NEXTEL with the chirp(walkie talkie) option.

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Objective-Dust4795@reddit

LG chocolate. Loved it.

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jsteele2793@reddit

I came here for this one!!! I was so excited to buy the chocolate! It was the coolest phone I had ever seen.

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Cold_Barber_4761@reddit

Same. It was my second or third cell phone. I had it in white. Totally loved that phone!

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Slowvia@reddit

Oh man, that was one of my favorite phones I ever had. I had the white chocolate. Wish I still had it, it was a fun phone.

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-piso_mojado-@reddit

Was that the one that slid open? I had several of those in my early 20s. Kept dropping them in liquids.

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avalonfaith@reddit

Yeeep. It was so amazing

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Objective-Dust4795@reddit

Yes it was. It was the second cell phone I ever had and enjoyed it.

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-piso_mojado-@reddit

I also had a Samsung A500. The camera was sold separately and attached with a cord. Pretty sure it was the 1st camera phone.

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avalonfaith@reddit

Fuck yeah!!! The chocolate had the best fuckin commercials and they GOT me. And I loved the shit out of that phone. The texting suspend alone!

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

Chocolate here too

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sorrymizzjackson@reddit

The Nokia 3220. It had rubber on the sides and lit up. I loved that thing but couldn’t pay the bill. 😂

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TheBrownCouchOfJoy@reddit

I had this tiny tiny LG slide-face phone. It wasn’t big when it was slid open either.

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Haemwich@reddit

LG Rumor, slider with full QWERTY

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

This bad boy.

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snot_cat@reddit

The samsung rugby. That thing got run over by a front end loader and only got a small dent

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BlindMouse2of3@reddit

Samsung hue and the Panasonic Duramax . Both fantastic phones. The hue made great calls.

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atxbikenbus@reddit

I had a Samsung Juke. It was so cool. Tiny too. Back when that mattered. I would totally have another.

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woodeerice@reddit

I730

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Mninaz@reddit

Motorola T720 on Alltel

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Dickrubin14094@reddit

Probably my LG slider phone. It was my first real dive into text messaging that didn’t cost $0.25/messages.

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Dannydimes@reddit

Sanyo Katana-had it for over 5 years. Killed it by running it over with a car. The phone still worked, but I broke the outside screen and couldn’t see who was calling.

It was the last phone before I went to a smart phone.

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Brent_L@reddit

Nextels

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Discobastard@reddit

Samsung P300. Size of a credit card. Even came with a leather flip case that had additional battery boost.

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nnsolex@reddit

Ericsson T39m

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mrpappageorge0@reddit

Motorola Krazr

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Available_Ad_4030@reddit

Pink RAZR for me. The worst phone ever was the HTC Incredible. Every so often, all of my contacts would be deleted. Also it sent texts that I clearly typed so someone to the wrong person. One time I wrote to a friend, “let’s not tell anyone we went home with those guys last night” and it went to my MOM. I had two other friends where the same things happened to them.

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valdus@reddit

Blackberry Torch 9600. Full touch screen, slide-out keyboard, but also still with the BB buttons and trackpad. It took more beatings than any phone deserves and kept on going.

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UponTheTangledShore@reddit

HTC Surround

Fantastic speaker and I really liked the Windows 7 UI.

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Stiffy4Freedom@reddit

Motorola Micro TAC for sure... followed by my "grabs a signal no matter what" Ericsson A1228d.

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Marshall_BraveStar@reddit

My first clamshell phone from Samsung, very close to OP's picture, was one of the best I remember.

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ootant@reddit

Motorola v360

First phone I could put mp3s on. Had an external display.

And it survived my hands for 5 years (including getting lost in the snow for two days) and then my friends for another 3 years

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Eziekiel23_20@reddit

Felt like I was in the future when I got it.

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fortlowe@reddit

HTC One

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UponTheTangledShore@reddit

Probably the best phone I had back then. The Speakers sounded incredible for the size. I dropped it so many times but it never cracked. I had to stick a rock underneath the screen and run the phone over with my car to break it to get a new phone I thought I wanted.

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hamburgler26@reddit

Ohhh man this was a good one. My camera burned out after several years, but it was so much nicer than anything else at the time and just didn’t get enough adoption.

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atari2600forever@reddit

These were awesome

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Wait_What_123@reddit

LG T5100 was my first camera phone. It was very chunky but I liked the twist screen feature so you could hold the phone like a camera when taking a picture.

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firefighter_82@reddit

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Glass_Donut9391@reddit

That was my 2nd phone, where I used to listen to the radio on it.

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CaptPotter47@reddit

I never had a Nokia brick. My first phone I got in Oct 2001, it was a Samsung Uproar. 1 of 2 phone at the time with an MP3 player as part of it.

That was my favorite phone of the 4 others I had before I got an iPhone and now obviously my current iPhone is my favorite phone.

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Valuable_Exercise85@reddit

My Nokia 3310

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Colossus-of-Roads@reddit

My Nokia 8210 was pretty damn sweet, and much nicer than the Ericsson GF768 it replaced.

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jack-t-o-r-s@reddit

Motorola V60

Hands down the finest flip ever made.

I exclude the "RAZR" because by that time I moved onto BlackBerry.

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jack-t-o-r-s@reddit

External display.

Aluminum, changeable case.

Swappable battery, with extended batteries available.

Slim belt clips.

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Orlando_Native@reddit

Honorable mention was the Pebble. Such a cool phone to handle and open/close

Razr was hands down number 1 for me though and it seems like a lot of us felt that way. It was amazing

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No-Possession-4738@reddit

PEBL team assemble! I loved that phone.

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lolsalmon@reddit

The PEBL demagnetized my debit card multiple times! But I still loved it.

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No-Possession-4738@reddit

Worth it.

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analogthought@reddit

I was a “you’ll pry the physical keyboard from my cold dead hands” person up until this phone and the palm treo 650.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I had this phone! E61 I think. I had the business one that didn’t have a camera. Or maybe they didn’t have cameras. This thing has a fantastic speaker.

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analogthought@reddit

Mine didn’t have the camera either - I think they came out with one shortly after this one that did and then said it was for security/business use- and I think I remember it was just a see thru marketing ploy to sell both models.

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Gonna_do_this_again@reddit

I thought I was hot shit sending and answering emails from the bar

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analogthought@reddit

I remember that a big part of the allure to me was being able to stay on top of work related tasks and emails better since I was working in multiple locations throughout a given week. Now I kind of regret that since it’s the expected norm now. It was nice being able to be more disconnected from work when you weren’t there.

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TheJustBleedGod@reddit

Palm was so close to a modern day smart phone. Too bad they got beat so badly by iPhone and blackberry

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brainvheart143@reddit

I highly recommend the BlackBerry movie if you haven’t seen it. Super interesting, esp those of us (olds) who remember them.

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catsoncrack420@reddit

Sony Ericsson.

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lunacydress@reddit

I think I had an LG enV Touch? I had to look
It up. Full tactile keyboard when held in landscape orientation. I think it flipped open, it didn’t slide.

The best part was the removable battery- I had two batteries and would put one on the charger and keep one in the phone and switch them every morning.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

LG

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Zeqhanis@reddit

This bad boy. I can't remember what it's called and the back feels like it's dissolving. I just checked the SD slot, and the hinge on it crumbled.

https://i.redd.it/sv7jfstl313h1.gif

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MukYJ@reddit

Other than my blue RAZR v3 which was great, I really loved my LG VX3200 flip phone.

Only reason I got rid of it (and got the RAZR) was because I dropped it accidentally from a 2nd story balcony onto concrete, and it was no Nokia: the screen didn’t work anymore and the stubby antenna broke off.

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sassyfontaine@reddit

Razr 100%

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

Loved this little guy.

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Aselleus@reddit

Ha I had the same one. And 20 years later my friend still reminds me about it

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Obi_Wan_Benobi@reddit

Back when phones were getting smaller and smaller instead of the opposite direction now.

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Scuzzboots@reddit

Top of the line GoPhone 😂

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Joelouis57@reddit

Blah bleep! Nextel

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Fantastic-Regular614@reddit

Razrs sucked. But I used to work at T-Mobile 2006-2008 so I'm biased. I liked my Blackberry Pearl okay. But back then Samsung was making the best phones with the best picture quality, imo. Then came iPhone .. after I quit I didn't have a cell phone for 10 years.

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nahmahnahm@reddit

I had an adorable Samsung back then and the ringtone was like a fairy chime. Can’t remember the ring tone exactly but we nicknamed my phone Princess Sparkles.

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Slight_Duty_420@reddit

Using this piece like a walkie talkie with my bros.

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Mx_Liewe_Heksie@reddit

I used my Nokia from 1999 until 2019 when they got rid of 2G in my area. So I guess my second phone?

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violetstrainj@reddit

My second phone was an LG flip phone that I had for seven years, until it finally gave up the ghost in 2011. It was my first digital camera, it got me through most of my twenty-something milestones, and it was really satisfying to close it at the end of a phone call, especially when I was angry.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I had a windows phone that was a clamshell. It was through Cingular. Anyway, you could create your own sound notification for calls, texts, whatever. Could even record your own. So I had a lot of fun creating crazy ring tones and text tones.

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avalonfaith@reddit

My ex had one that I inherited as he worked for several tech companies so we got to keep on the upgrades early. I remember being in my breaks at work and browsing the internet on the clamshell.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I rode the bus those days so I spent a lot of time browsing the internet on my clamshell. When the mobile internet was slow I disabled images and just browsed a text only web.

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CasualEveryday@reddit

I had several windows phones and I loved them all to death. Other than the lack of app support, it was the most polished user experience available at the time.

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CheckYourStats@reddit (OP)

Yes!

I had completely forgotten about the couple years where everyone had a custom phone ringer. We would download 10 second song clips, and it was so cool when we’d get a call and it would just start playing a song.

My ringer was “Wake Up” by Mad Season.

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aoerstroem@reddit

Motorola StarTac. It was so cool back in the day, and quite unusual where I lived, so also quite the conversation starter

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fizzlebottom@reddit

LG enV VX9900 was probably my favorite..I think it was the last dumb phone I had before Android, and I really wish I could get one and use it again.

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JediNeo101@reddit

This i loved my physical keyboard.

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CheckYourStats@reddit (OP)

One of my exes had this phone. I remember thinking the landscape keyboard/screen layout was the most impressive of any of those style of phones at the time.

I think it was on the Cingular network?

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JediNeo101@reddit

Yup, Cingular with the orange x for the logo

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

Buy one on eBay

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fizzlebottom@reddit

But getting it to work with Google Fi I fear would be impossible.

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

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Important-Ad-3157@reddit

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The_Infinite_Carrot@reddit

Ericsson PF768

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lolsalmon@reddit

With the pull-out antenna!!

I rocked one of these circa 2004 while taking a three day Greyhound bus trip because I knew my real phone (and my backup.. and my backup backup) wouldn’t hold a charge that long. This thing saved my bacon.

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Scuzzboots@reddit

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lolsalmon@reddit

Yessssss the Nokia 6800!! That thing was so badass. It had a built-in FM radio!

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HorribleDear@reddit

RAZR. Also the one in the picture.

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kathatter75@reddit

I think my favorite was the Blackberry 8100. Then the Razr.

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lolsalmon@reddit

The Pearl!! It was a glorious day when we all figured out how to make the trackball different colors.

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mrs_hippiequeen@reddit

the pantech c300 - i got it because it made me giggle and feel like derek zoolander, but it really was my favorite phone ever.

it made a convenience store chime when you flipped it open. it was my first camera phone. it had a FLASHLIGHT. the hone screen had an animated paper airplane that flew through the sky. my REALtones on it were "september" by earth wind and fire, "hips don't lie" by shakira, and "unchained" by van halen, and they sounded so GOOD! it didn't stand a CHANCE when i drunkenly threw it while it was still open because ny dipshit boyfriend was being a dipshit. rip 😭

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thetoastmonster@reddit

Sony Ericsson K800i, was basically a digital camera that was also a phone. Great screen quality (for the time) and also had a navigation joystick that could be used for gaming.

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I_M_urbanspaceman@reddit

LG Shine

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Thamnophis660@reddit

I had a Samsung Alias, it was both a flip phone and a qwerty phone depending on how you opened it up. I remember playing Doom RPG on it. I miss that thing sometimes. I think I just really miss Doom RPG.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

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metmerc@reddit

I liked my Razr just fine, but I really enjoyed the Nokia XpressMusic. It was designed as a better music player and could even play videos (on a rather small screen).

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BlomkalsGratin@reddit

It's funny, sometimes i feel like I'm being gaslit by the Internet. I remember there being a lot of chatter about Nokia's RMA rates around the 5110/3310 and how all of the construction worked had Ericsson phones because they were built to take a beating - this is Northern Europe for reference.

My 5110 went alright, but my reference phone to some extend, has always been the Ericsson t65. I went back to Nokia a couple of times, before moving to Android. My wife had to remind me, a couple of years back, how I was so frustrated and angry with my last Nokia phone (n82) I swore to never buy another Nokia. She remembered a decade later, after Nokia had disappeared and come back, so I must have been serious.

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ken830@reddit

I've had a lot of phones. One per year starting in 1997 until about 2013 when phones tapered off in advancements. I started with the MicroTAC, StarTAC 6500c, StarTAC 7868w... I owned the first phone in NA with Bluetooth and Transflash (Motorola V710). I owned the first phone with dual color screens (Samsung SCH-A530). My first smart phone was the HTC Touch Diamond CDMA running Windows Mobile in 2008. That was very memorable. But I think peak cell phone was my second smart phone, which was my first Android phone: the HTC EVO 4G. Capacitive touch screen. Android. Rear facing camera. Front facing camera. Sprint WiMAX. Replaceable battery. MICRO SD slot. Headphone jack. Solid kickstand that doubled as a fidget toy.

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Putrid_Form_9223@reddit

Samsung X830

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coachFox@reddit

Nextel with the walkie talkie feature was great.

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Fluid_Change_9647@reddit

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ViceroyFizzlebottom@reddit

Samsung sph-i600. I was living in the future in 2023.

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CosmicCommentator@reddit

I had a fido

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Cooper_Sharpy@reddit

Berry, Chocolate, Sidekick…. Phones are so boring now.

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burrito_magic@reddit

Nokia N-Gage the fact you could play “games” on it was wild

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Automatic_Beat5808@reddit

LG VX10000 It was the brick that opened the hot dog way and had a screen on the outer part and a screen and a tactile qwerty on the inside part. And a motherfucking antenna that extended!

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mightysockelf@reddit

OK, so if you're referring to the 6110 as the original brick, what if I jump a bit forward to the 8310? I liked it because it was still the familiar Nokia system and features, but in a smaller package. I was also able to use a clear case on it that was stuffed with LEDs that would flash a rainbow of colors whenever it rang or received texts. And, for some forgotten reason, everyone I knew installed the beginning of The Doors' "Light My Fire" as their MIDI ringtone.

If we're excluding all of the brick style phones, then I'll go with the Nokia 7210. It was the first color screen phone that I owned, and it played *\~!\~*POLYPHONIC*\~!\~* ringtones AND had an FM radio built in. It came with a bunch of different colored cases too, and they were quick and easy to switch out. I thought it was a pretty snazzy phone at the time.

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theloop82@reddit

I had a few Sony Walkman slider phones that were fantastic. Easy to load my napster MP3’s onto sounded great

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C-ute-Thulu@reddit

Palm Pilot. The most user friendly smart phone I've ever had

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davidwal83@reddit

Had Motorola bar phone first on my mothers Voicestream then T-Mobile plan. Then I got a Kyocera bar phone at my job when Virgin Mobile first launched in America under Sprint.

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

I had the rumor that was advertised on Gossip Girl. It had a slide out keypad... i felt so cool sliding it open to send a text

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scatch25@reddit

Sanyo flip phones were elite. I switched from Verizon to Sprint just to get the one in your photo.

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dixiebandit69@reddit

LG Lotus.

Compact design, QWERTY keyboard, internet capable, but not so capable that you would spend the whole day surfing the web.

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frumperbell@reddit

Sanyo Incognito. It was so shiny.

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Brokenbrain82@reddit

I had a Motorola flip phone with a camera and color screen that I loved. I gave it up for a Razr because it looked so cool but immediately regretted it because it had zero reception where I was living. Apparently my old phone could somehow connect to the only tower near me (which was not my carriers) and the Razr couldn't.

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iwantmy-2dollars@reddit

Whatever this Motorola bad boy was he was my GOAT concert phone. Super tiny, wrist strap, slip the SIM card in from my main phone and it was perfect!

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ButtSexington3rd@reddit

The original Droid phone (I think it was the Droid Milestone). This thing was so cool, I loved the slide out keyboard. I do a lot of crossword puzzles and the keyboard was great to have.

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MichaelMyersResple@reddit

My Samsung Rugby lasted five times longer than my most long lived iPhone.

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Boring_Week_9884@reddit

Motorola slvr 7

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tigerblue1984@reddit

I'm pretty sure I owned the exact phone in the OP photo, and I also had Sprint as my carrier lol.

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

My red Razr. I loved that phone so much! I'm considering a new one

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red-panzer@reddit

LG Shine Slider phone. The last old school phone I had before my first iPhone

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Isabeo@reddit

Sidekick! I spent days hand applying crystals to bedazzle mine like Paris Hilton’s 🤣

I loved that phone so so much. I honestly would get one if they did a redo.

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Suspicious-Yard4205@reddit

This was a bit of a rabbit hole to go down. I constantly think about one of my favorite phones from back in the day and I always thought it was made by Ericsson, but it turns out it was by Audiovox.

The camera button was on the hinges and they had blue lights that would flash when the phone rang. It also was the first time I could set my own ringtone, which I had "Nothing But You" by Paul van Dyk as the song. So it was always a dance party when I'd get a call.

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HopelesslyHuman@reddit

I had an LG bar phone in 2001 that had a flip cover for the keys, but it wasn't a flip phone specifically. I fuckin' loved that thing but have never been able to find a picture of it or remember the model number.

After that I had the same Motorola V60 that my entire friend group had. Stranglely fond memories of that too, but that's probably just the good times I had while using it.

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59apache01@reddit

I didn't get my first cell phone until 2009.

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Far-Key-8844@reddit

The Sidekick

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myshtigo@reddit

Droid 4 flip out keyboard was the bomb

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FUWS@reddit

StarTec and Razor. I miss those…

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RegularLove8679@reddit

That Sanyo phone was a game changer!!! I couldn’t send the pictures to anyone because no one else had that phone but I felt so cool having it.

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RogerDodger457@reddit

The Motorola startac. It was the coolest and best functioning phone when it came out!

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crj84911@reddit

Sony Ericsson W810 and S710a

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No-Gas5342@reddit

That was such a good phone! I think mine still turns on. I replaced the battery once but otherwise used it on and off for over 10 years

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broadwayallday@reddit

Treo changed the game forever

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andiluxe@reddit

I don’t remember which model it was but I know it was an LG. You could create your own ringtones note by note on it, and I created Via Purifico from FFX. I was so proud of it. It looped perfectly.

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mwalker324@reddit

I had that same flip phone in your picture, a blackberry, a razr, an android one that I can’t remember the name of. It came with the movie Avatar on it I think. It was shit. Then I went to iPhone and never looked back.

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bammbamkam@reddit

razr ftw

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

I don’t know what the Nokia Brick Cell Phone is.

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crj84911@reddit

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probablyatargaryen@reddit

I believe they mean this indestructible bad boy

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hit_reset_@reddit

Brother I had so many phones. That’s a Sanyo 5300. Sure a great phone. I had that, Hitachi G1000, Hitachi P300, Samsung A460 (shit screen) palm trees that would LOSE ALL THEIR MEMORY WHEN THE BATTERY DIED (like wtf). The last phone before my iPhone was the HTC Mogul. Still one of my favs before I got into iPhones in the 3GS/4 era.

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tlmz99@reddit

The Samsung SGH-E700. I went full flip phone and had the camera I could send pictures with. Not that anyone could receive them yet.

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tampapunklegend@reddit

I think it was a Samsung, but I had a flip phone that was basically an mp3 player with buttons on the outside to skip songs. I never needed an ipod, because my little android flip phone had a nice sized memory and was designed to play music.

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tesdfan17@reddit

The Alias 2 with magic keys I litterally had this till I got my first smart phone which was the Galaxy S 5!!!

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Unusual_Tune8749@reddit

I was looking for this! I actually still have mine, and I really wish there was a way to make it work with current technology. It was totally my favorite.

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MeButSecret@reddit

You could probably make a dope cyberdeck out of that thing

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melophat@reddit

LG vx9800 on Verizon. I absolutely loved this phone and form factor. If I could get something like this as a smartphone, I'd buy it launch day.

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WheelOfFish@reddit

StarTac and Krzr

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MinivanPops@reddit

Samsung e105 flip

Compact, great signal, durable. It was not sexy but it was incredibly good, back when devices were excellent at being phones. I often miss the purity and flawless function of that phone. It was a tool.

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javaman83@reddit

My first smartphone:

The Nokia 6620

https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6620-723.php

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ShakeItUpNowSugaree@reddit

My Blackberry Torch

I also had an early WIndows phone that had a physical scroll wheel on the side and I ha e no idea why no one has made that since.

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illectronic1@reddit

StarTac

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IntelligentAd3283@reddit

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StillNotaCenobite@reddit

I had a nextel in like 02-03 I loved. A Silver and black one with a brushed aluminum body. Loved it.

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OriginalBad@reddit

I think I had this same model. Had it for many years until I got the Samsung blade a900.

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rhconway@reddit

Sony Ericsson T610

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avalonfaith@reddit

Chocolate

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onions-make-me-cry@reddit

I loved loved loved the Blackberry Pearl.

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Jewbacca522@reddit

I had an “unbreakable” Casio G Zone flip phone that I bought specifically because I worked in an industrial environment and kept killing phones. It actually held up fairly well and lasted about 18 months before I dropped it through some deck grating and it fell 3 stories onto a concrete floor. It still worked, but it was cracked in about 4 places and would barely open and close anymore so I finally upgraded to the RAZR with a case.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

Honestly, the first phone I actually liked was the OG iPhone that I got in March of 08. I actually hated the Razr I had and that was what pushed me to get the iPhone

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RonnieG3@reddit

StarTac

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chadork@reddit

The first Ericson (sp?) that you could put MP3s on. Game changer.

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tragiccosmicaccident@reddit

Samsung launched this bad boy in 2000 first cell phone with an mp3 player and you could download a midi ringtone, mine was the Fresh Prince theme song.

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Striking-Win-3239@reddit

Well, Nokia was my first phone. Sorry.

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ThomasPaineWon@reddit

Samsung Black Jack FTW

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moles-on-parade@reddit

The Virgin Mobile UTStarcom Slice. This thing was tiny and FLAT — like 1/4" thick. It was a perfect minimalist voice machine.

https://i.redd.it/l4izpeyvtz2h1.gif

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RootDDoot@reddit

Not a back in the day phone, but still miss iPhone 4. Loved that little guy!

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probablyatargaryen@reddit

I’d pay more for that size and UI than I would for a 17pro

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CommodorDLoveless@reddit

Motorola GZ1 Loud as hell, waterproof, dust proof and just tough as hell. If the chargers were still around I would be using it still.

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tcogsdill@reddit

LG Fusic, it had an FM transmitter in so I could play my 64mb of music on the radio.

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itsmestanard@reddit

Panasonic VS3. I loved this phone and still have it stored away. Whenever I come across it again I always spend a few minutes opening it and closing it 😂

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ModernDayMusetta@reddit

The car phone i inherited when my parents gave me their old car. That thing was utterly glorious. It was mounted to the dash board on the passenger side and the buttons were facing out so you could dial while driving.

I used it so much and have very fond memories of my dad making calls on it to everyone he knew just to yell, "FREE WEEKENDS!" and hang up.

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lovelycurves84@reddit

That phone right there was the GOAT. I sold phones at radio shack when that one was first released and it was the #1 phone I sold. The red one was my favorite! There was also a rugged one sold that had like rubber all around it with no camera so I bought that one when I started govt work back then.

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actualelainebenes@reddit

I’d have to say my pink Blackberry Curve because that was my first smartphone. Prior to that was probably my first LG camera phone (don’t remember the model) from 2003…was my first camera phone/color screen

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BrilliantMonochrome2@reddit

Motorola RAZR and SLVR

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theBloodShed@reddit

I had a similar Sanyo flip phone. But my favorite was an HTC Windows Mobile Pocket PC.

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andy_nony_mouse@reddit

I had a Panasonic ruggedized phone that lasted for years. That was a great phone.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

I don't know that I have ever wistfully daydreamed about cell phones of days past.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

Not completely back in the day, but, my favorite phone ever was the samsung galaxy note edge. The edge on the bezel worked on a different chip, and your main screen wasn't interrupted when you got texts or calls or any notifications. I wish this feature still existed, I almost want to still rock this 2014 beast

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Angelkrista@reddit

I still have this phone…somewhere.

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notforrobots@reddit

R2D2 android

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No_Today_4903@reddit

The LG env maybe it was envy? Loved the shit outta that phone! Had a keyboard when you flipped up the screen you could twist the screen around backwards. It was really the first one I had that you could stream anything on. I’d put clips from I guess YouTube for my oldest, who is now 22, sometimes when we’d go somewhere and would have to wait for food to come out or something. He rarely got loud or fussy so I didn’t do it too often. I’d have those crayola bags with crayons and stickers too, all kinds of crap back then. Anyway. I’d use that phone still if I could!

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

Env yeah I had one

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kaest@reddit

Motorola V60

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

My first phone

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MasterPhilip@reddit

I had the og silver Samsung clamshell flip phone.

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DDrewit@reddit

Some cheap phone with a slider keyboard

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THExIMPLIKATION@reddit

Motorola razr v3i

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McCale@reddit

Audiovox something or other.

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BoredPandemicPanda@reddit

Sanyo SCP-6000

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rowman_nahledge@reddit

Kyocera was my first cell after having a pager. Think it was 2002. I was 21 lol never saw a need to have a cell on me i liked the convenience of having a pager not having to respond right away.

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Aware_Policy_9174@reddit

Motorola ROKR. It was specifically for music since I didn’t have an iPod. It had decent speakers too which came in handy when my car stereo got stolen. Then my phone got stolen and I upgraded to an iPhone after that. But it really liked the look and feel of that ROKR and it wasn’t that common so I felt so cool.

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MyRedditUserName428@reddit

The Nokia chrome slide phone

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StarGraz3r84@reddit

Gzone

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NBKiller69@reddit

Motorola Startac 2000! No texting, just an old style numeric display

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studiokgm@reddit

I had a Nokia brick… I didn’t need another phone until the iPhone came out.

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thebiglerm@reddit

Nextel two way changed everything

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pimpvader@reddit

Star Tec

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pimpvader@reddit

I had a Nokia 7160 too, I think it was with Cingular

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phallic-baldwin@reddit

I had this phone and was able to take the first ever cell phone pic of rapper TechN9ne at an FYE music store. His security was blown away when I asked them to take a picture with MY PHONE.

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Kgby13@reddit

Motorola V551. My first phone

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WhatTheCluck802@reddit

I freaking loved my Blackberry with the actual keyboard. I had several models but the Torch was really great!!

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rearwindowpup@reddit

Might be in the minority but I freaking loved the PTT Nextels

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Darth_Kara_Zor-El@reddit

Palm Treo 750i. Used to stream iParty Radio on that joker. 3/32 headphone jack to tape deck in car and speakers in the house. Badass ❤️‍🔥

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Fabulous_Clothes_726@reddit

Blackberry bold 9900

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Fast_Method2196@reddit

Razor

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meggsovereasy@reddit

Blackberry 😭😭

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incontheivable0_0@reddit

Palm Pre

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B_B_Rodriguez2716057@reddit

That was my first flip phone/camera phone I had. I can still hear the clack as you close it.

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GrayZeus@reddit

Several Motorolas

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Craig_M_242@reddit

I had one of the qwerty keyboard Casio G-Shock phones and loved the HELL outta that thing

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LarryGoldwater@reddit

The one you posted. It got a weak form of internet! In 2004!

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HostilePile@reddit

My Roxy boost mobile flip phone from Australia that my boyfriend at the time swapped the guts so I could use it here in the US. I loved that phone!

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Previous_Dream_84@reddit

Blue Sanyo Katana SCP-6600 and the green LG Rumor slide

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imaniluv1@reddit

There are two… one was a Nokia that looked like a regular brick, but opened up into a full qwerty keyboard. Loved that phone. The other was a… tiny ass phone from smart beep or something. lol I just remember being so excited at how small it was.

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Solid-Hedgehog9623@reddit

I can’t remember the brand, but I had a work phone around 2010 that slid up to reveal a real keyboard.

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alvysaurus@reddit

Nokia 710. It was a windows phone, but I still miss the tiles. It was much easier for me to take a quick glance at my phone and know the important information I wanted. Widgets are close, but aren't nearly as easy. I hated that apps were nearly never available, but honestly looking back I think all of that functioned to prevent me from getting addicted early on.

But also the quality of the phone, it's size, and feel is still unmatched for me.

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cmgww@reddit

The Motorola just before the RAZR. It was text capable. Great for nights out with the boys, so if we got lost from each other we could reconnect. But no damn camera to capture our shenanigans….once the cameras came, shit went downhill.

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Hyche862@reddit

Kyocera?? Slider phone. Love it

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Ice_crusher_bucket@reddit

Went from 3310 Nokia to Samsung S307. First flip to hit the market, or what they said.

Awesome. Porn was weird. But made it work.

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I remember the trends. The tiny phones. The razor…

I don’t remember when I went from brick to flip… i think in college. 2000 ish?

So probably 10 years of flip phones… probably 4 total?