For me, this was the pinnacle of mobile device design.
Slim, pocketable, physical keyboard, and just so sleek.
I would love a modern day Linux version of this. Decent processor, better camera, and modern networking support. But still small and not a phablet.
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Ryan Walmsley
in reply to Neil Brown • • •I had the slightly cheaper E63, it was a great phone!
The physical keyboard was excellent.
Nick Drage
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Sheddi
in reply to Neil Brown • • •back in 2011 I had a Sony Experia Mini Pro.
An Android smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a user-replaceable battery.
At the same time was the Moto Flipout which achieved the same result but with a swivelling keyboard.
I'd love for a mainstream phone manufacturer to produce something similar today, rather than trying to make screens that fold. If you've got a physical key, you don't lose screen space to a virtual one!
Joakim Fors
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in reply to Neil Brown • •@Neil Brown seen the absolutely bonkers devices from Unihertz? A company that makes phones for no one?
I have a titan but the Titan Pocket looks more like my E71
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to silverwizard • • •*has a look around*
I've been wondering what to replace my current phone with when it finally gives up the ghost. Ideally, what I'd like is a handheld ARM-based Linux machine that happens to also work as a phone (sans Android). Do they make anything like that?
silverwizard
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •@Jonathan Lamothe so the titan has solid support for Lineage, which is close enough to Linux for me, but definitely isn't.
gitlab.com/ubports/porting/com… there are guides but I treat my Titan like it's made of gold.
They also sold me spare parts directly and had guides for replacing components!
Jonathan Lamothe
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Hmm...
(from the provided link)
Jonathan Lamothe
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •I was always partial to the Blackberry form factor, very similar to your Nokia in most respects. But I'm from Winnipeg, so of course I prefer BB.
Only thing I didn't like was their messenger was "BBM" which ends with "BM" so I just thought about poo, every single time someone said BBM.
edit: not just poop actually, also it made the person who said it turn into the sort of person who says "BM" instead of, you, I gotta take a poop.
marinheiro
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •god I loved my E72's keyboard
got one a couple years ago from Ali Express, hoping that maybe I could revive it for some text-specific usecases (email, instant messaging), but the speed the internet (and TLS) whizzed by these obsolete OSes means it practically cannot use the modern-day internet. Not securely, anyway...
I still have a "try to build & compile a simple Matrix client with built-in TLS handling for Symbian" on my endless list of "would-be-so-cool" projects, maybe one day...
(something like a VPN tunnel could also work but that's also very old and obsolete, the first person to implement Wireguard for the E72 gets my 💰 not even joking)
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⛧Malady⛧
in reply to Neil Brown • • •I missed the entirety of the qwerty-phone generation sadly, I was determined to get a Blackberry after leaving school, but sadly by than, they were already on the way out.
(and none of those work here anymore, bc we hate cool phones ig 💁♀️️ )
XorOwl
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •I really miss physical keyboards on our phones.
The last one that I had was the moto dext. And was a meh phone with bad specs, but with a very comfortable keyboard