I still live like I have limited minutes, and can honestly say I don't think I've used more than maybe...20 minutes a month? Maybe less. I just checked my last 3 bills, and t-mobile doesn't list minutes anymore.
I had contacts that called, let the phone ring once or twice in order to ensure a missed call on my end, end the call and wait for me to return the call.
Hot damn look at that sidekick. What a perfect machine right there. So good the team got hired by Google to port their Hip OS and turn it into Android.
The Sidekick is still my all-time favorite phone. I bought the first Android phone, the g1, solely because of the Danger team being involved in it's development. I still use an Android phone but it's never been as exciting as that Sidekick was.
I think, and mind you how long ago this was, but I think it was either mono or maybe just the phones speaker. I only tried it once so I'm not really sure on that.
No, you had night and weekend minutes. You had a package of texts like 300, 500, 1000, and texts over the limit cost something ridiculous like 15 cents or something.
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RagingHungryPanda@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 3y
Now there's some 'member berries
3FingersOfMilk@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 3y
'memeber sharing ringtones with your friends via Bluetooth?
RagingHungryPanda@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
Oh yeah, and giving each person their own ringtone
mruniverse@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Remember when snake was the best mobile game. lol.
StalksEveryone@lemmy.villa-straylight.social · 8 pts · 3y
Many ringtones were basically memes in audio format. Like arnold shwarzeneger talking or akon and lil wayne lyrics. MIKE JONES!
BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf · 2 pts · 3y
218-330-8004.
3FingersOfMilk@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
Anyone else assign someone the ringtone "silent" ?
WarmSoda@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
You can still do that on Android.
You know, if you wanted to.
KiofKi@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
Can't remember the last time I heard a ringtone. Don't even know what ringtone I have. The world has turned awfully quiet in that regard.
johnthedoe@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 3y
That 8 bit tone of Sweet Child O Mine
papabobolious@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 3y
You mean over IR
jetsetdorito@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y
This thread has two different layers of feeling old
Wisely@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
cma3246@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 3y
Unlimited mobile to mobile, free nights and weekends. 500 minutes per month. Good times.
outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 3y
Oh shit, I forgot they used to do unlimited minutes only to the same carrier, so long-distance gf and I had to coordinate our carrier choices
altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 3y
I only had 200 minutes, but it was 30 bucks, so I couldnt complain.
drzoidberg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I still live like I have limited minutes, and can honestly say I don't think I've used more than maybe...20 minutes a month? Maybe less. I just checked my last 3 bills, and t-mobile doesn't list minutes anymore.
Rediphile@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 3y
After inflation that's like $700 today though.
Wisely@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
EddieTee77@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y
I remember when some friends had unlimited inbound calls. I'd get texts to say call me so they wouldn't have to pay for minutes lol
painfulasterisk@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
I had contacts that called, let the phone ring once or twice in order to ensure a missed call on my end, end the call and wait for me to return the call.
fixmbr@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 3y
I remember having unlimited texts in the evenings and weekends. It used to pop off after 7pm
Encromion@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 3y
Hot damn look at that sidekick. What a perfect machine right there. So good the team got hired by Google to port their Hip OS and turn it into Android.
FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
The Sidekick is still my all-time favorite phone. I bought the first Android phone, the g1, solely because of the Danger team being involved in it's development. I still use an Android phone but it's never been as exciting as that Sidekick was.
outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y
Oh is that why the first android phone was so good? I had a developer edition of that and it slapped. Keyboard was amazing
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net · 9 pts · 3y
Kanye South
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
I had one of those Sidekicks!
WarmSoda@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
Same! I loved it. Flip flip flip.
Did you know it had a video out jack on it? You could plug it into your TV and watch YouTube! Lol
Steak@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
No way that's wild
KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Wait what kind of Jack? HDMI wasn’t out then right?
WarmSoda@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
Correct. You could plug a yellow video cord into it. Like how you'd hook up a camcorder to your tv
KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Did that carry audio?
You’re talking rca right? So did you get audio through the phone?
WarmSoda@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
I think, and mind you how long ago this was, but I think it was either mono or maybe just the phones speaker. I only tried it once so I'm not really sure on that.
SirBwennan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
My parents have told me...
pm_boobs_send_nudes@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 3y
Wait, you guys don't have 24/7 unlimited calling? Wtf
eyepatchcheetah@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
If you go back even earlier, you couldn't even call outside your geographic region. Nationwide calling was a big deal!
navi@lemmy.tespia.org · 6 pts · 3y
Long distance charges were a bitch.
MrMamiya@feddit.de · 10 pts · 3y
No, you had night and weekend minutes. You had a package of texts like 300, 500, 1000, and texts over the limit cost something ridiculous like 15 cents or something.