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If this came with Whatsapp I'd unironically order one. Smartphones are garbage technology, I hate every last one of them.
by qsort 2y ago
If this came with Whatsapp I'd unironically order one. Smartphones are garbage technology, I hate every last one of them.
- sneak 2y agoYou may contemplate how annoying text input was with T9. We are quite spoiled by full keyboards on our slab phones.
- badsectoracula 2y agoEven back in T9 days i preferred to write "manually" - then again i don't really write that much on my phone. That said, i'd rather get something like a PinePhone, the software might be worse than most Android devices but at least i can replace/rewrite/do_something_with it.
- RajT88 2y agoI used to put a lot of stock in texting with perfect spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Even with a T9 phone. Eventually I got a cheap Nokia 9290, and it was heaven. My last (good) QWERTY phone was an E90 which was the perfect form factor. I have loosened up since then and care less about writing properly while texting. I still want an E90 running Android. (Side note: I had an Astro slide, and I wanted to love it, but the overall quality was not there)
- happymellon 2y agoI do find the full sized keyboards an interesting situation, where I should be able to type but since moving on from the iPhone 3g I absolutely fail at being able to hit the keys correctly. Hitting the period instead of space is extremely common, as are many other typos. I miss my Blackberry keyboard. Everything else is so much better these days.
- kmarc 2y agoThat's an interesting input. I have a guess why you'd say that, but I rather ask, genuinely, why do you think it's a "garbage technology"?
- itomato 2y agoInequitably serving the maker, advertisers, service providers and back door entities makes it damnable. Garbage is being sincerely kind.
- qsort 2y agoCopy-pasting from above: > I guess my point is more that I wish the communication styles enabled by smartphones and the social expectations they carry weren't the norm. I'm not even really sure what I would do if I could wish my own phone into existence. I also broadly agree with the usual laundry list of complaints: closed platforms, surveillance, ads, lack of innovation, smartphones being more like status symbols than actual pieces of technology.
- kmarc 2y agoI see, thanks. I agree all of that. Usage patterns are garbage. But still, incredible technology, squeezed in a tiny box.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoIt's a pocket-sized "personal computer" bundled with a cellular phone. But it is designed to be "impossible" for the owner to exercise control over it. Garbage. Of course, for the companies that control these "smartphones", they are not garbage.
- mrweasel 2y agoThe Nokia 2720 flip phone has WhatsApp. Sadly no Signal app.
- numpad0 2y agoThere are couples of not-too-outdated Android based LTE flip phones if you really need one, and most of them run apks so long it runs on 512MB-1GB RAM and without GMS.
- mrweasel 2y agoIt doesn't need to be a flip phone for my need, but it does need to not run Android, or KaiOS. I have a slight issue with trusting Google.
- qsort 2y agoA few other models from the same line also have it IIRC, but they're all based on KaiOS and they end up being barely usable. I don't think it's their fault, I'm not sure it's even possible/EULA-compliant to use the service if not via the clients Meta gives you. I guess my point is more that I wish the communication styles enabled by smartphones and the social expectations they carry weren't the norm. I'm not even really sure what I would do if I could wish my own phone into existence.