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What kind of phone do you have?
Guest:
I was a big Blackberry fan for most of my adult life because I loved the hardware keyboard. I started with the Curve 9600, then the Q10 and finally rocked the KeyOne for five years that I wanted to be my forever-phone, but the battery eventually crapped out on me. When I was finally forced to replace it, it couldn't even hold a charge for a minute.
Since Blackberry is pretty much dead after their manufacturing deal with TCL ended, I was forced to find another brand. So after some shopping around I decided to get the Surface Duo 2 when it launched. Between my Blackberry Curve and the Q10 I owned two different Microsoft Lumia Windows phones and really liked them, and I've been a fan of the Surface device lineup for a long time so decided to give Microsoft another shot.
It was really expensive when it launched, but it's been so worth it. Just like Blackberry did with the KeyOne, this time around Microsoft went with Android instead of shoehorning Windows onto a mobile device, so it has all the benefits entailed therein. Plus, having two screens is so good for multitasking that I almost never use my desktop PC or laptop anymore unless I'm working on a project or need to type out something longer than a couple paragraphs because I still struggle with typing on a touchscreen.
It's a gorgeous device, too. With the bumper, mine looks exactly like the one in this image.
So what's your phone?
isopod:
I've never had a particularly fancy phone, for a long time it was because they were too expensive but at this point I've realized I don't need or even really want the fancy stuff, especially if it means giving up the few features I actually care about (read: the headphone jack). My first phone was a secondhand iPhone 4S from a family member, but I decided pretty quick I didn't want to get locked inside of that particular walled garden and it's been cheap mid-tier Android phones ever since, mainly from LG. My current phone is an LG K61. It has way more cameras than I know what to do with, but otherwise I can't complain about it. It's withstood an impressive amount of drops, albeit with a screen protector and a basic case. It does what I need it to do, which, admittedly, isn't a lot; I don't use it for anything much more intensive than watching Youtube. I'm planning to keep using this thing until it gives up the ghost, and then see about trying to get a Fairphone 3.
If you're curious, it looks like this:
It's got something approaching a pearlescent sheen in person. It's a cool effect.
From what I can tell, LG seems to be quietly killing off their phone division. It's a shame, I really liked their phones.
tarocchilla:
When i was a kid, my parent divorced and my dad got me the shittyest motorola phone to talk to me without having to call my mom, even if it was a phone that only called and messaged i felt like i was at the peak of technologycal developement. Then, my dad got a blackbarry and gave me his old nokia, i have no idea wich model it was but it was red, had a sliding camera and could even go on the internet! i liked that phone a lot! then my dad gave me a samsung phone witha querty, that i used in my fitrst highschool yeras. when whatsapp got popular my mom gifted me an lg phone that barely worked but hey, it had whatsapp! Then my dad gave me his old iphone 4 and i was trurly in the smartphone world, i could play games in there! That iphone lasted me until it was on life support and thanks to a friend of mine i got an asus zenfone 3 for really cheap, that i used until...a few months ago! and i decided to replace it with my current phone, an honor 50 lite.
Honestly my criteria for picking the phone were "the cheapest phone with a very nice gps that i can throw around and doesn't shatter" because i don't do a whole lot with it, and i certanly don't do phone gaming!
If i knew about dumphones and co. i would have gotten one of those tbh. there are even phones with a phiscal keyboard :loved: but i didn't know anything about those so i just got the cheapest phone the market had to offer!
Frost Sheridan:
oh man, i've always loved weird cell phones! sadly, there are very few options for cool, weird phones nowadays, but some still exist if you look hard enough. my main phone is a unihertz titan pocket, probably the last phone still being made with a real qwerty keyboard. it looks like a blackberry, but it actually runs android 11. here's mine running my super custom home screen that makes it feel like a proto-smartphone from like 2010:
sometimes i'll swap it out with a sonim xp5s, a massive thicc bricc of a phone. this one's not smart at all, it's just a regular ol feature phone that can call, text, and sort of browse the web.
i'm thinking of adding a small, cute flip phone to my phone repertoire sometime, but i haven't decided which one i want to go with yet. there aren't a whole lot of good 4G-compatible flip phone options available on the market currently.
Melooon:
You guys have really diverse and interesting phones! I got a silver 256GB iPhone XS from an old man on eBay for 250 euro which was a heckin deal! Iv used Android off and on over the years, but Iv always found it clunky and unreliable compared to iOS (LG stopped updating my phone so I had to install a custom ROM to get new updates but that broke banking apps and then the headphone jack just stopped working?? ugh) although I do like the customizability it offers.
If I called people more instead of messaging I would totally get this thing though :cheesy:
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