What's the most aesthetic dumbphone? One that would've looked exceptionally professional back in the 90s or 00s and could be easily paired with an IBM Thinkpad design-wise. Bonus points for box shaped and monochrome display.
What's the most aesthetic dumbphone...
Levi Wood
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Josiah Green
Bump
Samuel Reyes
Those shiny Motorola's.
Brayden Walker
I may have found peak aesthetics. Pic related.
Please be more specific, what model or at least post a picture.
Grayson Anderson
Don't remember the specific model, looked like this, but the front was all smooth too without the camera bump as far as I remember.
Jeremiah Adams
Sony Ericsson w715
If 2g wasn't being shut down, I'd probably buy one... But then you gotta remember all the batteries made for it are all 12+ years old, so they won't hold a charge.
Xavier White
cute shitbox desu
Isaac Gutierrez
Holy shit this one brings back memories. I remember trading black eyed peas songs over Bluetooth.
Gabriel Hall
is that a KRZR?
Logan Gonzalez
Michael Evans
This taco right here.
William Martinez
yes all the thots had these before smart phones
Chase Gutierrez
these cheap little chinese "M5"s are more recent, but they tick all the boxes.
Cooper Clark
do u zoomie mongs mean the Motorola RAZR V3?
Chase Miller
I'm not a thot
Yeah that's the one
Nolan Richardson
Nokia communicator 9000
It's basically a nokia dumbphone + a tiny DOS PC running GEOS glued together
William James
prove it
Juan Foster
I liked the dark version was dope af.
Adrian Baker
Ethan Myers
my dad used this shit back in the day, he was a surgeon RIP in comfy dad uwu
Connor Evans
LONDON
Jonathan Foster
h-how did you know?
Camden Long
I don't think your father would approve of you posting "uwu" now would he?
Noah Adams
unironically this
hospitals are bringing pagers back, when will we?
Matthew Jenkins
s-stop im on no fap
Jose Green
Can a dumb pc gaymer pick up programming from a book like that? I just want to provide for my beautiful transgender girlfriend, which I'm currently looking for.
Joseph Sanders
thanks for ruining the thread with your faggotry, faggots
Camden Cox
The thing is this nigger
Is not even me
It's some tranny discord shit again
John Butler
nokia 1100 looked nice
Connor Robinson
Leo Morgan
I really like the design on this credit card phone
Julian Green
Jose Hill
I think the display is a major part of the aesthetics. From best to worst:
>monochrome LED
>monochrome LCD with that blue/green electroluminescent backlight
>those two tone blue/yellow OLED displays
>monochrome LCD with a green or orange backlight, and the keys backlit in the same color
>anything else that starts emphasiszing the device as something more than a dedicated phone
>other monochrome LCD configurations
Matthew Murphy
present
Nolan Thompson
fuck man, this was my first phone.
good memories.
Anthony Sullivan
i can remember tradding crazy frog and scatman via IR
Holding the phones as close as possible to try max out the data transfer speeds
Jordan Jones
For me it's Sony CMD-Z1
Nicholas Long
nokia 8110. I've been considering the recent re-release of this one.. bonus phone Nokia e71/72
Colton Sullivan
The Sony CD5 was very comfy to use back in the day, it has a jogdial, aka a little scrollwheel that lets you navigate menus very quickly.
Hudson Hernandez
anyone remember the long and kinda slender candy bar shaped phone with a circular button in the middle of it, that had such an interesting form factor
Henry Jones
this looks great
Gabriel Turner
It's still one of the thinnest phones ever. Weighs literally nothing and doesn't bulge out even in skinniest jeans.
Nolan Clark
>referring to women as 'thots'
Cringe and incelpilled
Kevin Foster
I had one exactly like this.
Logan Baker
>Flat buttons
Kill yourself
Carter Hall
based
it took fucking ages tho
Hunter Long
>jogdial
was based as fuck, too bad it wasn't widely adopted
Wyatt Brown
Goatse - the phone.
Aaron Barnes
Samsung used to have great designs, what the hell happened
Gabriel Sanders
Nokia 6310i or 6510
Jaxson Hernandez
Sony Ericsson P1
Blake Morales
>I've been considering the recent re-release of this one
The re-release one is a perfectly good phone, except for one thing that completely kills it. The T9 typing. It's fucking awful. There is no option to add custom words, the auto-capitalization doesn't work, you have to go through two to four menus to access punctuation. Trust me, I have one and I'd be using it right now if it wasn't for the absolutely horrid T9. It turns what could've been a great phone into an unusable piece of turd. Hopefully GerdaOS fixes this shit.
Samuel Walker
What model is the flip with big red indicator near the top of the picture?
Xavier Scott
Nokia 8810
Juan Hall
t20e is kino
Dominic Torres
Thatsa shame. I've been looking for a phone with gps and 4g only I'm sick of smart phones. I'll keep looking
Kayden Harris
Jaxon Campbell
Chink mini android phone is answer.
Display too small for media consumption, still has gmaps and everything else you'll need.
Adrian Perez
For me, it's the alias. Quite literally one of the best and most comfy phones I've ever used. If there was a re release of this with gps and a couple of qol additions I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Sebastian Butler
My favourite phone
Jason Cook
Oliver Peterson
I can understand "we tried joystick for the first time and we fucked it up", but for fuck's sake there were SE phones with joystick before, I had my T300 working perfectly for 3 years, while this shitpad was busted after 3 months.
Lucas Nguyen
Levi Reyes
Hunter Collins
I had that phone, and pic related before that
Eli Gomez
Looks like some Massdrop hipster shit.
Very cute
I remember wanting one of these, haha.
Jordan Gutierrez
fuck, my classmate had a Walkman edition and I was always so jealous
Bentley Wood
Ericcson coming through
Sebastian Sanders
The Thinkpad of dumbphones.
>thin as fuck (mine still works, just needs a new battery)
>HSDPA internet
>java apps
>3MP (or 2.1, don't remember) camera with flash and video recording
>µSD storage expansion
>battery lasted for several days
maybe I should revive this thing and use my V20 only for work.
Noah Turner
Easy only issue is installing new software like games or applications because for some reason Samsung thought having it be as tight as a clam was a good idea to protect against virus
Nathan Turner
just look at this cute motherfucker.
Dominic Gonzalez
>batteries
from what I remember isn't that only a problem in the U.S.A,couldn't you just import them from a different country they're still being manufactured in mint condition right?
Andrew Ward
as someone who has been repairing cell phones for like 20 years now, this is one of the most unreliable (non apple) phones ever
Jaxson Campbell
Nothing is reliable if you treat it like shit.
I used mine for several years heavily (till the fucking paint started coming off some of the keys) and it still worked when I put it away.
What issues did you encounter?
Note that this is D900, not the admittedly brittle D910.
Joseph Brooks
Have xperia x with ~10-15dB of attenuation on both 2.4 and 5ghz wifi bands. I've checked connectors and coax cables, everything seem to be ok. Any ideas what could be the problem? Is wifi part is soc these days?
Joseph Jenkins
Usually people would send them in because the screen stops working (aka just goes white) or the phone doesn't boot at all
I don't see many of Sony phones these days but I do remember Sony having software issues that caused wifi to be poor or keep dropping. I would check for a software update.
Also yes, everything is being integrated into the SOC these days.
Thomas Green
So how many of these phones could you get working today? Are there still networks you could use them on?
Jason Jones
i got the razr as my first phone, in the 7th grade over 10 years ago. I still remember the smell of the box
Connor Bennett
It's hardware issue or maybe it's just bad design, I don't have another X to compare it with, just old Z3. Also symptomatic is that if I disconnect all coax cables there's no difference in signal strength however it's really hard to pinpoint anything since I don't even know which one is used for wifi, no service manual, can't find anything in fcc database.
Where to get service manuals these days? Back in Nokia times those where just plain .pdf files, can't find anything for newer phones.
Liam Carter
Assuming that their unlocked & have 3G yeah most of em will work just fine,I can even use the GPS on pic/related
Jace Hall
I like my Nokia. Still take it /out/ as emergency phone.
USB port in my smartphone got fucked recently, and I've been using it for the past 2 weeks. I forgot how light & small phones used to be.
Not to mention the battery life.... charged it 2 weeks ago, and so far only one bar on the indicator is gone (3-4 short conversations a day).
All of them, I think. I recently opened my bag of grandpas, they all worked fine.
At least in EU.
Brandon Moore
the N95 is a smartphone not a dumbphone
Alexander Walker
strong contender here
Razr is always a good standard for “top-tier” aesthetic dumbphone
was it this little slut, the Samsung Juke? I’ve never met anyone who had it, but I remember seeing it while looking for a new verizon phone
ooh not bad
fuck off modernfags, nobody wants you here.
Ian Adams
forgot picrel
Connor Brooks
Service manuals today we usually get on forums, or physically on USB flash drives from Shenzhen.
Carter Moore
It depends on where you live and who your carrier is. In the US:
>1G was shut down completely in 2008, but only a couple phones in this thread would have used that
>AT&T has already shut down their 2G serivce and Verizon is shutting down theirs at the end of this year, T-Mobile and Sprint will be shutting theirs down in the following years
>for 3G, Verizon is going to be the first company to shut theirs down at the end of this year with other companies following over the next few years
>in the event that you want an older phone that supports 4G, make sure it supports VoLTE as older 4G phones couldn't do voice over 4G
Other than that, you just need to be sure whatever phone you're looking at uses bands that your carrier supports.
Evan Taylor
Are there any good modern alternatives that look similar to a dumbphone? It would be nice to use an old phone like in this thread but I'm not for sure if I could easily get my hands on one.
Landon Hughes
The microtac in most of its forms but i like the look and feel of the International 5200 the best!
That is such a wall street looking phone! And the size if really nice in your hand with and without the extended size battery!
But if you want a smaller nice looking phone then the T28 by Ericsson looks and feels amazing!
The automatic flip open button on the side, that professional looking gray/blue front and the metal backside accompanied with the black battery! Perfection!
i really miss the old yuppie take on the phones.
Jordan Sullivan
That's a smart taco, not a dumb one.
Ian Howard
There are 4G dumb phones on the market, along with 4G "dumb phones" like the new Nokia 8110 4G that run OSes such as KaiOS that have all the shit you'd expect to find in a stock smartphone including Google integration. There are also some Android flip phones. You really just need to actually look at what's on the market these days and you'll find something that you'll be able to use for the forseeable future unless you're looking for a landscape slider (since I'm pretty sure those fell out of popularity before VoLTE became common).
Nathan Perry
I had that one but it was in black.
Sebastian Walker
stand aside peasants, nokia e90 communicator coming through
Benjamin Rodriguez
how did you get maps to show up can't get mine up & running because I can't seem to download the maps for it?
Eli Morris
>wanting a restricted phone that is still 100% botnet
why
Blake White
>nokia e90 communicator
also a smartphone
Jaxson Garcia
So that I stop shitposting so much while at work.
Brody Roberts
cool it with the exclamation points, tranny.
Dylan Taylor
>b-but it isn't perfect
Just having to worry about your cell carrier selling your rough location data and data about your usage of your cell phone is significantly better than all the shit you can expect if you don't have a smartphone with a good custom ROM without GApps and aren't hyperaware of what you're installing (which quickly results in so much data about you being sent to so many different parties that it's unlikly one could fit a detailed description in a single post here). Also, considering a dumbphone only functions as a phone they're a lot easier to turn off or leave behind when you don't need them, during which time your cell carrier isn't getting updates on your location data, vs a smartphone that you spent your time securing so you can use it for other purposes while maintaining all the privacy issues you can expect from any phone.
Hunter Harris
That is 10/10 aesthetic right there
Aaron Wright
Why should i?
Im not taking orders from you!