• AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    15·
    6 hours ago

    I had a Palm Pixi and loved it. Palm WebOS was an amazing OS that gave the industry a lot of what are considered standard features of phones today. You could also root it by just going into the settings and turning on developer mode.

    Palm’s acquisition by HP destroyed all of that. And to make matters worse, they sold WebOS to LG who now uses it to spy on people through their TVs.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
    18·
    19 hours ago

    Bring back blackberries and physical buttons and linux and hookers and cocaine.

    And phones that don’t shatter when you sneeze at them.

    • Björn@swg-empire.deOP
      8·
      18 hours ago

      I bought a Fairphone 3 for the reparability but the damn thing just won’t break! I don’t think I’ve abused any phone as much as the FP but it just keeps chugging along without so much as a tear in the screen.

      I think it’s because of the frame reaching half a mm or so above the screen and the battery cover opening up when I drop it.

      • JayDee@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        I got a Fairphone 4, thing’s survived many a fall. It’s a Shame that fairphone doesn’t ship spare parts to the US, makes sourcing those parts much harder.

      • sunnyjim@lemmy.zip
        4·
        10 hours ago

        Fully expect my FP5 to do the full promised 10 years. Maybe a battery replacement eventually? But I am not kind to this phone and it does great

  • lennee@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 day ago

    palm treo was goated, never understood why i would want to touch the screen wirh my dirty ass fingers, i miss those pens

    • lime!@feddit.nu
      29·
      1 day ago

      it was sabotage by microsoft to force them out of the market. they bought the lumia trademark after nokia gave up.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        1 day ago

        Yeah and remember, that happened at the same time as as Steve Ballmer at Microsoft retired and Satya Nadella took over, he was against the deal, and two years later the new company was shutdown.

        From what I have read, the Nokia leadership needed a shake up when Elop was appointed CEO, I absolutely believe that a shake up was needed, but Elop was absolutely the wrong guy to deliver it.

        A dream phone of mine would be the Nokia N950, it was a devkit for the Nokia N9, I played around with Meego for a bit, and it was brilliant, with an added keyboard it would have been awesome.

        I have had plenty of mobile phones in my life:

        • Nokia 3330
        • Sony Ericsson K700i
        • Nokia 5110
        • Nokia 8210
        • Sony Ericsson K800i
        • Nokia 5800
        • Nokia E7
        • Nokia E72
        • Nokia Asha 300
        • Apple iPhone 5S
        • Apple iPhone 6S
        • Apple iPhone SE
        • Nokia 6.1
        • Apple iPhone 12 Mini
        • Apple iPhone 16e

        The one phone I keep thinking of and missing the most is the E7.

        Beautiful phone, brilliant keyboard, great quality, sightly too slippery.

        It was my first big boy phone, I bought mine with my first paycheck, I bought it at Siba on Kungsgatan in Stockholm.

        It got stolen less than a year later, probably pickpoketed on the train…

        • SirLeToet@lemmy.world
          8·
          23 hours ago

          Still dislike Microsoft for cheaping out on the later generations Lumia. Cheaper displays so the 950 didnt support Glance. Wth?

          I still miss my 920 tho. The Lumia 920 is only recently dethroned as my favorite (smart)phone of all time.

          Microsoft messed up badly in Europe by completely and utterly ignoring the continent. Nokia managed to gain a larger marketshare than Apple in both Italy and France at the time. With meaningful marketshares in the rest of Europe.

          Nokia was doing alright in several Asian countries Microsoft ignored as well.

          After the take over, Microsoft kept all their resources forced on the US market, failed and in turn lost the European and Asian markets.

          GG.

        • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
          6·
          23 hours ago

          Unless you’re willing to spend serious €€€, forget the N950.

          But both the N900 and the N9 can be had for cheap on the used market (at least here in Finland lol) and are excellent examples for a true Linux phone that actually works.

        • bluesquid0741b@aussie.zone
          2·
          20 hours ago

          The Sony k-series. I had the k850i. Such a cool phone but pressing the tiny stiff buttons hurt so much after a while.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Still is in many ways. I’m not sure sure if you’ve used a Linux phone recently but they have worse security and usability than anything Android has to offer.

        Custom roms like Lineage OS offer a much better experience. It would be cool if Android was a bit more open or there was an actual alternative but for now AOSP based systems are still much better