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The closest competitor to Nokias during 2007-2009 I recall was the Sony Ericssons, especially the walkman phones or the slider phones. At least if you were like
by HeckFeck 3y ago
The closest competitor to Nokias during 2007-2009 I recall was the Sony Ericssons, especially the walkman phones or the slider phones. At least if you were like me and always had to have something different.
I still wish I’d kept my W910i. Unreliable software that would reboot randomly, but a surprisingly sturdy piece of kit that survived many drops and skids. And it was the best camera I had for a while, delivering a wonderful 2MP.
- neom 3y agoThat's right, I forgot about Sony Ericsson but you're correct, very much less common among my friend group, I only recall older people having them...Was Sony Ericsson considered a more premium device?
- HeckFeck 3y agoThat's interesting, I mostly remember old folks sticking to flip phones. The SEs were all that could be found among my peers. We would've been in our mid teens at the time. Then they were supplanted by early non-Android Samsung phones with the bad touchscreens, then by 2012 everyone had either an iPhone or Android. It was only the space of a few years but seemed much longer back then!
- neom 3y agoWhere in the world were you located at that time? We'd be around the same age I think, I was in Scotland and bought everything from Argos.
- HeckFeck 3y agoI'd have been just across the water in rural Northern Ireland. Argos was very much part of the picture but most phones came from the local O2 shop.
- neom 3y agoWas just googling around and found this, maybe you would enjoy it also: https://retromash.com/argos/ https://retromash.com/argos/
- HeckFeck 3y agoThanks mate, I remember Argos had their own website up for a while where every catalogue could be viewed online. Bizarrely, they didn't provide any downloads. So I'm still on the hunt for PDFs of the 2003-2007 catalogues, the ones I'd remember most vividly.
- Gare 3y agoI remember SE phones fondly. Motorola was also quite big with their flip phones (Razr), at least in Croatia.
- magnetowasright 3y agoThe best phones I have ever owned were Sony Ericssons. How I yearn for a slightly modernised phone from them! My favourite was one that had a slide-out play station controller. That thing was awesome for wasting time on.
- alexey-salmin 3y agoYep, k700i, k750i, w902 — all superb phones, sometimes I even miss them a bit. Funny that a few years before that I was a big Palm/Clie enthousiaste, so the idea of "all screen no keyboard" wasn't new to me. Yet I gave up after Tungsten T5 and stayed with just Sony Ericssons for several years with no desire to but a PDA or smartphone.
- nsteel 3y agoI had all those phones! And also the "cool" white matrix-style slide-out one. They were really great, except the joystick/navigation thing always failed. Even when you cleaned them out, so annoying. I miss the jog-dial ones. At least, I remember it very fondly but I would probably hate it now.