[POLL] How old is your phone?

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You cannot believe polls or the media. :grinning:

I hate it when you say that. :joy:

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Two strikes for me today. Here is a third, and then I am done for today.

:rofl:

I have been told we should get a room.

You’ve replied to @peepeep 3 times, did you know you could send them a personal love message instead?

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I had a Palm and then later a HP iPaq which ran Windows Mobile.

As for Fry’s, my employer back then subscribed to the local newspaper. I loved grabbing the newspaper first for the Big Friday Fry’s Ad.

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I’ve a vague memory of owning a Philips Nino that I bought used from a roomate, it was a monochrome screen model.

After that… a Compaq iPAQ 3975, that entertainingly, still resides in a Rubbermaid type of tub in the garage that I call my ‘museum’., so yes, you made me drag it, and all it’s accessories out for the photo opp:

It even powered up, and I just had to… try to bluetooth pair it to my iPhone… unsuccessfully :frowning:

Surprisingly, there is a crop of this model and accessories available on eBay… why, is the question, what would someone do with a PocketPC these days (other than toss it in a Tub in the Garage, for the soul purpose that someone would trigger me years later with “Does Anyone Remember the days before the iPhone…”

and it still powers on…

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And, then the Museum Tub of Vintage Tech produced a four old phones that I didn’t recall on my list:

Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Motorola Droid RAZR XT912
HTC Droid Incredible (in previous post)
HTC (AT&T) Tilt (Windows Phone)
HTC (T-Mobile) Dash (Windows Phone)

The Tilt was interesting with it’s hidden keyboard:

One has to wonder why I even still have these.

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This seems like a grant of permission if not an outright command.

A’ight, now I guess I gotta go find a non-Watercooler post to go tell @ssummerlin off! :smiling_face_with_horns:

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Please keep me in line when I drift off course. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I try to be mindful about it, but I wander off topic, too.

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Amazing collection. Maybe you can donate them to the Smithsonian Museum.

Speaking of an actual computer museum …

On one of my trips to the Silicon Valley, we stopped by museum, can’t remember the name, but it had all kinds of old gadgets as well as comparative history of computing hardware and programming languages.

We happened by a group eyeing a bunch of abacus models. I didn’t know there are several kinds. But a couple in particular appear more recent; they had small LCD displays!

Someone asked why they have LCDs and I said, that’s how they verify the result of the abacus.

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Here is a very cool old computers site if you have not seen it yet.

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Here is some Samsung news.

I missed that post earlier. Interesting choice. A friend bought a Fold and I thought it was cool. I should revisit the Flip. A lot of people select the Ultra. Personally I like the size of the standard or “Vanilla” model.

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Follow-up: Yolink Hub only works on 2.4Ghz or Ethernet. I conected to Ethernet to stay off 2.4 GHz.

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I scrutinized someone’s Samsung Fold phone and although I like the bigger screen, I’m kind of turned off by the slightly visible line where the screen folds.

It’s also too big for a gimbal stabilizer.

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The line looked bad on the first version. It improved on the next version. If I wasn’t retired, I could find a use and justify the price.

I have an affordable A9+ as a tertiary device.

I am holding out for the pencil phone that uses film to pull out sideways to make a regular-size phone or tablet.

The Shoe Phone was introduced in 1965 and never really caught on.

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I heard that people complained about getting dirt and dog poo on the side of their head.

It was ahead of its time. Just like StarTrek had the first Flip phones and Bluetooth ear buds.

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