Still rocking one π
Edit/Bonus: Watching DS9 on a flip phone, as far away from the concept of god as possible:
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This is amazing.
Very low-end Android phone I dumbed down for a "30 day dumbphone challenge" (wanted to be able to re-purpose it / un-dumb it afterward). Ended up liking it so much, I stuck with it as my daily driver.
Reminds me of simpler times. Please reassure me that this isn't how you're browsing Lemmy though...
As gen X/Y, we should exclusively be shitposting in T9
T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I'm doing I'll still say thigns loke this.
Blackberry died for this.
No they didn't, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn't make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.
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Lol, no. Though it does work in a pinch.
Was this just buying an android flip phone and turning off all the data leaks? Or did you like re-flash some cool old Nokia or something with a custom rom type of deal?
Have you included the chirp as your notifications?
Still using Voyager door chime: https://www.trekcore.com/audio/doors/voy_door_chime.mp3
If/when I tire of that, I'm absolutely going to switch to the communicator chirp. Sadly, I haven't found a way to play a sound when I flip it open.
As great as it would be to have it chirp every time you open it, I think that would probably get annoying after a while.
You mix it up by programming the chirp and a random panicked message from your crew that:
- a Klingon ship has decloaked
- the Cardassians are contacting us
- a Borg ship has been detected
- we've lost main ship power and we are on emergency power only
- the ships gravity assist is malfunctioning
- we've detected a space-time rift in your area
- a Gorn colony has been detected in your area
I had a comm badge chirp for a long time. Everyone that heard it always asked if my phone was broken lol
Profile pic checks out π
Neat!
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If they ever come out with retro flip phones I'm gonna be like Jadzia in the 2260s:
All this talk about flip phones, I almost forgot bag phones existed:
My dad had one of those. My mum decided it was dirty one day and put it in the washing machine.
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That reminds me of satchel charges from Red Faction.
Actually, looked it up and found it didn't resemble what I remembered (and was called the "remote charge" in the first game of the series): https://redfactionwiki.com/wiki/Remote_Charge
I remembered a green bag with an antenna sticking out of the top, very mildly visually reminiscent of your photo. Wonder what game that was.
CoD: Modern Warfare (maybe MW 2?) had charges that looked like that, I think.
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You're thinking of the original half life. https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Satchel_Charge
That appears to be correct.
Thank you!
2001 fans when the iPad was released.
Been rocking this for over a year
Nice. I didn't even see those models when I was looking for an actual dumbphone. All the ones I saw were running KaiOS. My main requirement for a dumb phone was hotspot which is mostly a standard feature these days.
"You want to report by phone then, don't you?" Alan took a compact packet about six inches square from a holster attached to her belt and handed it to Wilma.
So far as I could see, it had no special receiver for the ear. Wilma merely threw back a lid, as though she were opening a book, and began to talk. The voice that came back from the machine was as audible as her own.
- Armageddon - 2419AD, Philip Francis Nowlan, 1928
I have to admit, it was satisfying flipping it open and closed...
you can still get dumb flipphones, they usually market them as grandparent models.
My dad got one of the original Startac flip phones and it was the coolest thing ever in 90s. One of the first βthe future is nowβ kinda things I experienced as a child.
Motorola razor 2024 to bridge
Nothing has been as cool as the Matrix' Nokia 8110 with the spring loaded slider. To this day.
Cram all the computing power of a modern phone into something other than the same, nerd ass, actuary in a brown suit looking candy bar phones.
I want to call out the lines from Those Old Scientists when the Pike crew was lamenting the loss of the flip top communicators (replaced by badges you can tap that the Cerritos crew had). "But flipping then open is the best part!"
Me now, to Google Home: "Computer...retrieve me a chocolate pie recipe. Also order me more stroopwafels."
Just be careful and check for glue. Not sure if the replicators ever had issues with that. I do remember one spewing out hot bananas.
That was a golden age for sure.
I have a flip phone still.
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