Phone Evolution

"djmt1" (djmt1) 03/01/2015 at 15:26 • Filed to: None

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Less than six years between them.

Man, phones got big.

duurtlang > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 15:29

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You can still get small phones.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 15:31

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had one of these bad boys for a while and thought I was hot shit having a legit smartphone with a huge screen, keyboard, and Windows Mobile OS.

having worked at Alltel and Verizon for nearly 8 years you could imagine I'd gone through quite a few phones.

djmt1 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 03/01/2015 at 15:36

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I was the first person to get a smartphone at my school and boy did it turn me into an arsehole but I was an arsehole with GPS, 3G and Angry Birds.

ttyymmnn > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 15:39

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And here I thought technological advances were all about making things smaller.

dogisbadob > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 15:43

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this phone is awesome

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 15:44

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The screen looks washed out on that one.

What phone is it?

ttyymmnn > duurtlang 03/01/2015 at 15:45

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Last summer, I moved from an iPhone 4S to a 5S. Could have had the 6, but it's just too big. In fact, I prefer the size of the 4 over the 5. Bigger is not always better, especially for a device that is being carried in a pocket.

djmt1 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 03/01/2015 at 15:46

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My current phone, The OnePlus One.

I took the trouble of cleaning the others but not the one I use and are currently replying to you on for some reason.

djmt1 > dogisbadob 03/01/2015 at 15:48

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I still don't know of anyone who doesn't like the Razr. I miss flip phones.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 15:57

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when I was in highscool '01-'05 cell phones were making their way into the mainstream. My first was the same Nokia bar phone *everyone* had. Then my parents got me a sick little flip phone with a trick camera on it. That's when it start... Then things just went downhill from there. From what I can remember...

Nokia bar

Samsung vx6100

Samsung tx890 (I think.. sick little slider I bought on my own since everyone else had razors)

audiovox/htx 6700

Samsung flip phone (work)

Samsung hue (wp)

Htc 6800

Samsung omnia

HTC incredible

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

BlackBerry storm 2 wp

Samsung... Err some PoS and got stolen from my car. WP

Windows 8x - shattered after our company Christmas party that ended at the local strip club WP

Pantech breakout wp

Samsung Note II

BlackBerry curve WP

HTC m8

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:01

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How is it? I've heard some wonderful things but have dropped out of the cellphone enthusiast scene after I left Verizon.

It's sad because I look at boards and forums and the fanboy pissing matches are awful. Imagine a camaro/mustang pissing match x10

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:04

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I despise the razr.

When it was time for me to buy my own phone and was offered the razr I picked up this bad boy instead. It was better in every way and you shut your whore mouth if you speak different. *

*If there were cell phone fanboys back then that's how it would go.

djmt1 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 03/01/2015 at 16:06

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mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:07

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they aren't phones anymore is the thing. The transition from phone to mobile computer is what has happened. I have been waiting for phones to transition back to smaller devices... And in the future I think we'll see this.

djmt1 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 03/01/2015 at 16:10

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Staggeringly good. I can't get over the fact that it is exists. It can match any other phone when it comes to Hardware (minus the camera in lowlight, it sucks balls) and the software takes it to another level. Plus there is the elephant in the room being how cheap it is. In the UK a iPhone6+/Note 4 costs 3x as much and for what? If by some miracle you can find one or get an invite (You have to be invited to buy one like a Ferrari) jump on that opportunity immediately.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:11

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It's annoying when the screen gets all covered in fingerprints, they should work on a screen that doesn't retain the fat secreted by our fingers.

lonestranger > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:12

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I've only owned five phones in my life.

Nokia 3320

Motorola Razr V3i, where the "i" stood for iTunes. A legit Apple-associated phone before the iPhone:

Sony Ericsson W580

Blackberry Curve 8900

Sony Xperia Z3

Baeromez > lonestranger 03/01/2015 at 16:22

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Man the RAZR was the shit. I had one for like 6 years. Best phone I've ever had.

Steve in Manhattan > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:22

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Sig other got a 6 Plus to replace her 5 - big difference.

djmt1 > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 03/01/2015 at 16:22

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I do and I don't. I think we are reaching the limits of screen size at 6" and don't see them getting any bigger but I don't see a radical shift of direction resulting in the smaller phones of a decade ago.

Maybe someone can crack holograms and we can have Mass Effect style omni tools. Holograms would certainly make wearables more appealing to me.

dogisbadob > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:23

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the LG enV phones are awesome too. :)

blacktruck18 > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:27

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My first phone was an Ericsson t10. I go it in the summer of 1999 right after I graduated high school.

My second phone was a Startac which was the shit back in the day.

Phones used to be a serious status symbol. If you had a phone with a belt clip, you would clip the phone to your front pocket facing out so everyone could see what phone you had.

Also, Back then phone insurance didn't work like it does now. If you had insurance and broke your phone the insurance just gave you cash, IIRC they gave you the price you bought the phone for. It might have been the purchase price minus depreciation though.

Everyone I knew who had insurance would break their phones when new phones came out and use the money to buy the new ones. That worked for a couple of years until the insurance companies changed the rules.

Now get off my lawn.

djmt1 > Steve in Manhattan 03/01/2015 at 16:27

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A friend of mine was planning to do the same but I forced them to use my OnePlus One for a day. They got the regular 6 instead.

cluelessk > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:30

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Hate how large phones are getting. My Nexus 4 is the perfect size and size is pretty much the only thing keeping me from getting a new phone.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:35

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it's a Krzr

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 16:43

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I think there is a market for both. 1. Large computer type phones. 2. Small portable phone phones. Holograms will be a reality too!

djmt1 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 03/01/2015 at 16:50

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Oh yeah.

Steve in Manhattan > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 17:00

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GF has tiny hands, but she loves the 6 Plus. Got my first iPhone from her - I said I would buy a 5, but she gave me her 4 and bought a 5 because I can't be ahead. 5C now, and we'll see what happens next.

Garrett Davis > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 17:44

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Ah, a OnePlus One. Excellent taste, kind sir.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 17:51

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NJAnon > djmt1 03/01/2015 at 20:40

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6 years is a long time djmt. Phones got big and do more than only dial another person. But yeah you can still get small phones.

djmt1 > NJAnon 03/01/2015 at 21:12

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Not sure I can go back to small phones as I'm kind of used to big touch screens and as you can see from the pic, my phones has been getting bigger year on year as a result it feels really weird to me to hold smaller phones.

Maybe someone can make a foldable touch screen and we can all have flip phones again.

KirkyV > djmt1 03/02/2015 at 04:59

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Snap on the OG Desire. I don't really have any of my old feature phones anymore—all that's left is an old Nokia brick that I leave in my glovebox, just in case. There should be an iPhone 3GS in there somewhere, too, but I either sold it or gave it to my sister...

Nice OnePlus, by the way. Assuming Google don't go back to making cheap off-contract Nexii, there's a decent chance my next phone'll be something from them. I just hope they offer something with a slightly smaller screen at some point; I don't really want to go above five inches. I've use a phone with a 4.7 inch display before - the Galaxy Nexus, before the red Nexus 5 - and it was pretty much perfect, screen size wise.

NJAnon > djmt1 03/02/2015 at 09:19

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lol, not sure anyone will want that. Besides those that get the Galaxy Note 3's and IPhone 6s know what they're getting into. :P