Nope. The only old phone I’m still impressed by was the old Motorola Razor flip phone. I had a blue one and my wife had a pink one. The number of times that phone rode through the washer and dryer without ever hesitating was amazing.

My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S10. It’s the first smart phone I’ve had that hasn’t started glitching after the first two years. I ordered it on July 29, 2020, and it’s still going strong with no signs of stopping. I’ve never been forced to do so much as factory reset it. Every previous phone I’ve spent the last year or so I had it trying to coax it into lasting just a little longer.

I’ve replaced the factory-installed screen protector and the otter case I bought for this phone once. When I had the phone out of the old case and stripped of the screen protector, it still looked brand new.

I loved my Samsung Droid. It was so easy to mod.

Nokia N9, it was my first smartphone, it ran Linux, as in you could run sudo apt install in it and yes, sudo worked and you could get root access from factory. It was very sturdy, keyboard did some vibrations when you pressed so you got some tactile feedback which was invaluable in convincing me to use a phone with no buttons, it had gesture navigation which took years to arrive in other phones, plus some games I never got to finish and now I can’t play anymore.

It was such a simple yet fun device. It had really good sound and an equaliser, which was special at the time. Played loads of music on it. Great battery life too. No WiFi, but honestly, that might be a plus nowadays.

Yeah, I miss my old iPhone 5S, LG G4 and Nexus 6P. All of those were great phones for different reasons.

I don’t miss my old Samsung slide-open phone, nor the HTC One m9 I had for all of a week before the camera was so bad it made me return it.

The Sidekick II. Bought it for $350 and sold it a year later for $300. Was a fun phone for a year and well worth the $50.

My Nokia 6800

1961 Bell System Model 554 Rotary Dial Wall Telephone

I still have it, but reminisce is all that I can do because I have no landline service to plug it in. It’s the Trimline phone that we had when I was growing up. I think it was the one my parents previously rented from Wisconsin Bell, then bought after the breakup of AT&T when they had to let customer-owned devices connect to the network. It sits in the superannuated telephone nook in my kitchen, because, why not?

every day, then I remember how little features they have and I stop reminiscing. I think if I was to go back, it would just be a landline and I wouldn’t bother with anything prior to smart phones. The only redeeming factor about early cellphones was the slide, I would love a current day model with a slide on it.

I hella want a modern Sidekick. Mostly for the physical keyboard.

Sidekick (danger/tmobile). that layout with physical keyboard and the screen that rests over it or flips 180° above it was so cool.

Palm Treo was also pretty nice. Drug Wars, Space Trader, and AOL Instant Messenger all in one place!

When I was a little 1980s kid, my family got rid of a malfunctioning wall-mounted rotary phone which had been installed there since time immemorial. I asked if I could keep it and my mom said no, but she did let me exercise my curiosity by taking it apart to see what the innards were like.

I kept the dial, and it still lives on a shelf of mildly-interesting things in my house. It still spins, though the recoil speed is way slower than it should be

(I also grew up to be a phone phreak.)

Nokia n900 for me, circa 2010. It ran Linux (real Linux!), had a pretty good camera, headphone jack, sd card slot, slide out keyboard, 4or 5 day battery life, xmpp instant messaging natively. It was perfect. It was a little bit chunky, but would fit in a jeans pocket perfectly and didn’t weigh too much.