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> I’m realising now just how much I hate modern smartphones. They’re big, heavy, breakable, glossy, distracting, and come with surveillance crap. I did think it

> I’m realising now just how much I hate modern smartphones. They’re big, heavy, breakable, glossy, distracting, and come with surveillance crap. I did think it’d take til I was in my forties before entering get off my lawn territory though… that’s a bit scary. The BBs I had were heavy, oddly shaped, didn’t fit great in a pocket, were very distracting (I had the “internet” in my pocket!! Though the iPhone truly put the internet in my pocket, I just didn’t know it at the time), and were magnitudes less useful that even early iPhone/Android devices. I can’t imagine how someone could look back at a BB and think it was superior. Again, even early iPhones (my first was a 3GS, the third iPhone) were so clearly a massive step ahead of the BBs I had owned.

eimrine 3y ago
9790 was tiny and durable.
- joshstrange 3y ago
  And that phone came out around the same time as the iPhone 4S which was almost the same size, well over double the resolution, and ~30g heavier. By that point form factor didn’t really matter. Capabilities did and that screen sucked, web browsing on BB sucked compared to iPhone, and apps were way better (in some cases no equivalent existed on BB) on iPhone. I was specifically talking about devices that came before the iPhone and how the iPhone was marked improvement over them. However comparing phones that launched at the same time as the 9790 still show the iPhone being far superior unless you weight the physical keyboard much higher than other features.
  - eimrine 3y ago
    Your statements are corect, but my conclusion is that people weight a giant screen as much that there is even no market for someone who weights the physical keyboard. I remember keyboard smartphones from 00's and it became unexpected for me at that time that we are heading into the no-button future. How did that happened? Can I at least run Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp on ARM device with SIM-card and a physical keyboard which is not an ARM-laptop?

eimrine 3y ago

9790 was tiny and durable.

joshstrange 3y ago
And that phone came out around the same time as the iPhone 4S which was almost the same size, well over double the resolution, and ~30g heavier. By that point form factor didn’t really matter. Capabilities did and that screen sucked, web browsing on BB sucked compared to iPhone, and apps were way better (in some cases no equivalent existed on BB) on iPhone. I was specifically talking about devices that came before the iPhone and how the iPhone was marked improvement over them. However comparing phones that launched at the same time as the 9790 still show the iPhone being far superior unless you weight the physical keyboard much higher than other features.
- eimrine 3y ago
  Your statements are corect, but my conclusion is that people weight a giant screen as much that there is even no market for someone who weights the physical keyboard. I remember keyboard smartphones from 00's and it became unexpected for me at that time that we are heading into the no-button future. How did that happened? Can I at least run Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp on ARM device with SIM-card and a physical keyboard which is not an ARM-laptop?