• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Those phones were really convenient, taking just as much place in your pocket as needed, screen covered from being scratched by keys and other items.

    Actually convenient keyboards.

    It’s just that why make ergonomic, optimized for the task, price-efficient things when a piece of useless crap called iPhone makes you more.

    I swear, for market economies to work you need to outlaw advertising.

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      4 days ago

      flip phones were great as phones, but terrible as pdas. iPhone combined the two in a non-chunky way (competitors? Palm Treo? Windows Mobile phones?)

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        5 days ago

        I disagree with both.

        They were good enough as PDAs, those keyboards’ buttons usually used for navigation are not much different from what’s normal under Android now. Fit in one hand, convenient display angle. They were just ergonomically all around better.

        iPhones and Android phones I still have anxiety using.