They really burned me with their Nokia 9 Pureview. That camera set up was shit and less than 1 year of support?! And I really liked the Nokia 7, with that copper tone around the edges? That was sexy. But after the 9? Never again Nokia.
Everyone plays up the 3310 as a snake-playing text-messaging mjolnir but I had a Motorola Talkabout that survived being spiked into the pavement once. The battery popped out but I put it back in and made a phone call.
turns out a plastic shell with some give in the structure can take abuse more gracefully than a solid brick made of glass. and aluminum.
I had a Nokia something or another, it was a stick phone from sprint, somebody got pissed and threw it full speed, across the room, into a concrete wall, and it flew into like 7 pieces.
However, when I put those 7 pieces back together, that son of a bitch went on running.
I guess there’s trade offs for everything, but the younger generations will never know how to send a t9 text from your pocket
16 Comments
nifty@lemmy.world · 136 pts · 2y
The cover cushioned the phone so that anything it hit would have a chance to survive. It’s for the protection of everything else
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 2y
To this day bunker buster bombs consist of cardboard poster tubes filled Nokia phones.
madjo@feddit.nl · 59 pts · 2y
It had a belt clip, that was the only reason to get one of these. I had one.
lunarul@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
And rain, I don't think these had IP ratings
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
I have too much self respect to clip anything to my belt /s
madjo@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y
You were the king/queen with a Nokia on your belt.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 2y
It’s really too bad how much their smartphones suck compared to the old phone days.
Them and Kodak
madjo@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y
They really burned me with their Nokia 9 Pureview. That camera set up was shit and less than 1 year of support?! And I really liked the Nokia 7, with that copper tone around the edges? That was sexy. But after the 9? Never again Nokia.
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 2y
It's not for you; it's to make HER feel sexy. You wouldn't understand smh.
(/s, if it's needed)
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 2y
Everyone plays up the 3310 as a snake-playing text-messaging mjolnir but I had a Motorola Talkabout that survived being spiked into the pavement once. The battery popped out but I put it back in and made a phone call.
turns out a plastic shell with some give in the structure can take abuse more gracefully than a solid brick made of glass. and aluminum.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 2y
I had a Nokia something or another, it was a stick phone from sprint, somebody got pissed and threw it full speed, across the room, into a concrete wall, and it flew into like 7 pieces.
However, when I put those 7 pieces back together, that son of a bitch went on running.
I guess there’s trade offs for everything, but the younger generations will never know how to send a t9 text from your pocket
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
I always had flip phones until the QWERTY keyboard era but I really do miss being able to text by feel.
Holzkohlen@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
They made it for that little plastic clip on the back to put it on your belt, not to protect the phone. So it's still useless.
rumschlumpel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y
It might be indestructible, but it's not impervious to dirt. Which isn't even an issue for the phone itself, it's just gross.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
My parents had one. They aren't the smartest bunch