ITT: Features you genuinely miss from dumbphones The alarm clock

FM radio

>>58006699
Why would anyone want this? Useless feature, it'd only add bloat.

>>58006797
there are phones with this feature still

>>58006699
Durability
Buttons
Battery life

>>58006699
>turning your phone completely off is literally impossible
>it's not a bug, it's a feature ;^)
neo-/g/, everybody

>>58006797
My Moto G has this

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Nokia Bounce

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>>58006797

I honestly can't think of anything I miss about these - sorry anon, it's just old tech that belongs in the past! I don't have fond memories of this shit like I did with my first 486 desktop.

>>58006927
Same fambruh

>>58006975
R&B

fag

Nickel batteries

>>58007045
You should have heard the song. It was something like
>when we make love, the first person to take off is me

>>58006699
Nokia 3310 actually wouldn't ring alarm when off.
I had that with Siemens MT 50.

>>58007196
I miss the old Siemens mobiles. The S55 was god tier.

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Simple games without microtransactions

>>58006699
Moto G does this.

>>58006699
keyboards

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>>58006699
You could wave your phone in the air and create real life holograms.

>>58006699
My phone has this and fm radio too, not my fault if you shop like a retard

>>58006797

stereo

Keyboards. If my carrier had a decent feature phone with a landscape keyboard I'd drop my v10 right now.

I'd settle for a moto z mod keyboard but they don't seem to want to make one.

>>58006699
I'd hate that

>>58006931
Oh shit, I remember this.

Good times.

>>58006855
>Buttons
>I want physical buttons which for sure will be ded some day
retard

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Who remembers this?

>>58006797
Got FM and DAB+ on my lg

>>58006797
My Z5 has this.

What I really want is a phone with AM radio.

>>58009892
fugg :DDD upvote

"my phone is shit, i have to charge it twice a week"

>every single smartphone released today has to be a fashion accessory no fun allowed shit
angery

>>58009920
>what is iphone

>>58009966
yeah and after that stroke of genius suddenly every phone has to be a rectangle with minimum buttons

>>58010001
>with minimum buttons
that's just because physical button are shit and safe to be ded after lots of usage

>>58009917
My grandma said this after her first 2 weeks with a Moto G3, her first smartphone. She loves the camera though and sending photos to people, so she got used to it.

>She couldnt believe people charge their phone daily

>>58006699

I miss the absence of Butt Dialing that you could have with flip phones.

With Pre-touchscreen iPods, you could do quite a bit by touch without taking your iPod out of your pocket, I miss that.

Having a proper joystick controller for iPhone games would be nice, but I've never seen any phone do that.

But on the whole, I think we are well ahead.

>>58010128
>LOL HAVE YOU SEEN THAT FUNNY MEME WHICH MY SON SEND ME? XDDDDDDDDDD

>>58009892
I remember playing that. One of my family let me play it on his phone at a restaurant when I was a kid.

I also remember one or two of my mom's old phones had a bunch of games on them. I accidentally deleted nearly all of them when trying to play my favorite one except for one about golf and another about bowling. I might be wrong and just golf was left, though.

Fuck me.

>>58010064
I don't think I have ever once in my life had a button die on me. On any device.

Not even keyboards.

>>58010135
You could actually still butt dial with a smartphone. I did it a few times with my old phone the Galaxy SII because I didn't give it a lock screen until I realized that made it ultra easy to butt dial. Turned on swipe to unlock to stop that issue.

>>58006699
I'm 35, my first smartphone was (still is) an iPhone 6+ and I can honestly say that dumbphones never held any appeal for me. My phone is mostly a podcast/audiobook player, camera, and occasional text-messaging device that also serves as grocery list (I actually take pictures of my mostly empty fridge and shelves to remind me what to buy) and reminds when to water my plants (among other things). A dumbphone simply doesn't fulfil any of my needs and is therefore useless to me - regardless of battery life and physical ruggedness.

>>58010135
I also butt dialed with my Razr flip phone. Nasty issue that didn't go away until the 5 key wore down.

>>58010177
because you're a specul snowflek :-)

I do miss the buttons since touch screens are disgusting and having a battery that lasts longer than 5 minutes. But overall. Eh.

Man, I miss my old Nokia. Could more or less do everything a smartphone could(well, but worse) but it had all the nice things from a dumbphone.

Felt a bit disappointing the first time I got a smartphone, not gonna lie.

Ringtone composer
Decent Vibrate function
WAP porn
Drop it, reassemble, and it's fine
Nice tactile buttons
Stylish swappable cases

Was flip phones the peak of mobile design? Especially the later Jap ones. They are gorgeous.

>>58006797
all androids have this

>>58009416
Not quite landscape, but the blackberry classic is pretty sweet.

>>58009111
No it doesn't. I have one too

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I'm gonna buy this thing, only features I use is phone,alarm and FM radio
this thing has 3000 battery enough not to recharge it for a week

>>58006699
>upgrading from my old dumbphone
>turn it off, remove sim card
>put in in a box
>alarm fucking goes off one morning months later

>phone has little hole thing where i can loop a wrist strap through it
>drop it with strap around my wrist and its 100% fine
Which asperger decided we dont need this anymore?

>>58010135
>>58010178
>>58010188
You people disgust me. Anyone that puts their phone in their back pocket is a degenerate.

>>58010419
To be fair, I think butt-dialing is sort of synonymous with pocket-dialing these days.

>>58010419
So where do YOU put your phone? You purse? It's your purse, isn't it?

>>58006699
For me its the iphone 7c + with retina display, the best smartphone in existance.

>>58010441
In my left or right pocket, like any sensible person would.

What, your skinny jeans too tight to fit a fucking smartphone in your pocket?

>>58009904
this desu

I know that flash can be used like flashlight, but it isn't the same. I miss Nokia 1100 flashlight

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>>58010313
> "this thing"

Could you be more specific? Some people don't already know everything, like you obviously do, and might even be interested in checking it out.

Is it unregistered? Can it take any SIMM? Can it take a 64 GB or 128 GB microSD for storage? Can it play FLACs?

I lived and died by my Nokia 5320 for most of a decade. Bought it used for 50 euros for it in the Netherlands in 2009. The quality audio playback on it was essential. Not just for music, but also audio books, dictation and language lessons/practice. It recorded really crisp audio. I used it for notes to myself and to record interviews when I was freelancing for news services. I'd play it back through speech recognition software and get transcriptions that usually exceeded ~98% accuracy.

I probably dropped 50 different SIMMs into it from ~30 different vendors all over Europe and North America, including Apple, and never a problem. They Just Werkt™.

The camera was OKay for basic pics, which came in handy but is hardly essential. Video was ass, and no fucks did I ever give about that anyway.

Was rated for "up to 8 GB miscroSD," but I had a 32 GB in it for the last several years, no problem.

Fell out of my pocket onto a street a couple weeks ago and was run over and kill before I could try to save it. I feel like I lost a friend, and will never find another phone so awesome for the rest of my life.

Fuck smart phone faggotry. I just need to talk to people for cheap, and SMS. The audio reproduction was just an amazing bonus with this phone. I spent less than $100 per year for over a decade for I Just Need To Talk To People. I have 20 different tech solutions for all the other tasks I need to do.

>>>58006797
>What I really want is a phone with AM radio.
my nigga

>>58006699

measuring time between charges in number of days approaching a week or so, instead of hours.

Clamshell designs

>>58006699
Physical buttons for listen music like Nokia expressmusic had

>>58010526
Phones have battery saving mode where you can only use it to call and text and last a week or more in that mode you fucking retarded hipsterfaggot


I hate this "old tech was so muchhh better" meme, you can buy fucking dumbphones now too but you wont because dumbphones are fucking garbage compared to smartphones

>>58010498
no idea if they sell them in eu or us

they are market them here as land rover A series

ip68 protection, up to 3800mAh(even on android variants)
up to three SIMMs, not every model works with microSD though

I think actual company is Somia or something similar

>>58006699
Small size and light weight.

>>58006797
But the FM band will be kill in 2017, anon.

>>58006931
That shit was crazy man

>>58006797

My phone has an fm radio and tv tuner.

Unfortunately they only work shen earphones are plugged in.

What I really want is an ir blaster. I ended up getting a HUIS-100C because my new smartphone couldn't control my TV anymore.

>>58006901
>disable alarms
>phone stays completely off
FUCKING AMAZING!

autist-/g/, everybody

>>58006975
GTFO, nigger

I miss the fact I could drop my phone and it wouldn't break.

>>58006699
that alarm thing works fine on my android phone.

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>>58006797
many phones have it

>tfw no ham radio module in smartphones
>not even $5 rtl2832 which has android drivers available
sad

>>58006975
Ayyyyyy triple j

>>58006931
The sound effects in this game were magnificient for me

>>58006797
neo-luddite doesn't know they come with it because he's that stuck in the past

>>58007013
massive success, nostalgia destroyed

>>58007230
>>58009892
I'm telling you this because you won't get a new phone, but phones have this thing called "emulators" and it lets you play every home console library including psx and n64

>>58009920
>>58010156
>I must use a phone like normies so I'll get a dumbphone instead, muh 'flake

>>58010135
>wanting accident mistake dialing

>>58010208
Oukitel K10000

>>58010814
Reason why this happens is because it's been a decade since anyone has last used one and they retroactively remove the bad memories and think it was some golden era, but they won't actually go use the dumbphone again because they know it was shit and don't want to admit it

Fucking nothing

>>58009868
As opposed to a touchscreen which will be dead even sooner. Also it's dead, learn to spell you goddamn nigger.

>>58006699
>physical buttons
>durability
>battery life measured in weeks
I'd never want to return to pre-smartphone era though. Being able to browse full-feature internet, listen to music and access all kinds of utility programs on one small device is awesome.

Will we ever get a proper slider T9 smartphone?

>>58013628
>terrible grammar in post
>suggests other anons "learn to spell"

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>>58010389

>>58006699
batteryless earphones

>>58006699
Xiaomi phones will turn themselves on if there is an alarm set.

Those little thumb sticks to navigate

>>58006931
hello darkness my old friend

>>58012838
I didn't read any of your responses :)

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business idea: smart phone with a dumbphone mode that includes a low power cpu and os capable of only calling, using an alarm, and playing javame games

The fact that I could drop the fucking thing without it getting utterly destroyed.
I also miss physical buttons.
I hate typing on a slab of glass.

>>58014738
Ultra Stamina Mode in Xperias

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>>58006699
mhhhh

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>>58006699
>karhu

>>58010419

I DON'T put it in my back pocket. I'm using "butt dialing" in the generic sense. I find the phone has randomly launched apps or started playing music in my pocket.

>>58012838
>>>58010135 (You)
>>wanting accident mistake dialing

Learn to read. I was saying that my old flip phone never had accidental button pushes, but new touch screen phones do.

>>58014738
>business idea: smart phone with a dumbphone mode that includes a low power cpu and os capable of only calling, using an alarm, and playing javame games

I've taken care of elderly family members and can tell you that there is a real need for phones that they (or young children) can actually use. Imagine a flip phone with just one or two buttons inside, that I can program to call me when they need help.

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>>58014932
get something like this then, there is plenty ip-68 phones around

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>>58012707
funny thing they all run on android and use snapdragons
just not your favorite consumer brand

>>58016172
>Batl S19

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People get these things here living far enough from city with spotty reception.

>>58006806
>working alarm
>bloat

??

I used dumbphones for a long time, I switched to phablet recently.
I don't really miss much yet, I only wish smartphones didn't need cases to be 'handleable', and no, 'rugged' smartphones don't count because they are overpriced.
Recharging ever night isn't as much troube as I assumed it would be.

>>58010161
no you deleted your mums games on purpose you piece of shit GTFO

>>58006806
are you fucking retarded? how is an extra 42kb bloat?
Also it expands your battery lifetime if you're not leaving it on the charger for eight hours every night.

>>58006931
I still can't clear that one level

>>58016342
>he hasn't beat it

>>58016250
>Recharging ever night isn't as much troube as I assumed it would be.
Why do retards assume this would be an issue?
>plug phone in
>go to bed

>>58007013
t. Google employee herding us into his trains to Jewschwitz

Personal rant.

I wish a fucking 3.5/4 inch display smartphone ,2cm or 3/4 of an inch THICK. lol!

I don't understand why they try to build em like fucking pocket mirrors, when you can put lots of features and a bigger battery if they're thicker.