Fond memories

BRING BACK PHYSICAL KEYBOARDS WITH BUTTONS!

Good old times. My first Smartphone was the HTC Desire Z. Loved it :)

I really would like a modern phone similar to a Danger Hiptop (aka the Sidekick) just for the actual buttons and scroll wheel and the coolness of flipping the screen open.

I had one of these! Qwerty keyboard on a phone is a thing I sorely miss.

The Droid and later Droid 2 will forever be some of my favorite phones.

Back when Google wasn't evil, had barely killed any products and we were all optimistic about the future of tech.

I had this guy (Motorola Cliq) and loved it:

I blame Apple (and then Samsung for copying Apple) for stealing this form factor from us.

Didn't have that one, but I did have the HTC TouchPro2 that came with Windows Mobile but was able to shoehorn a functional version of Android "Froyo" on it. Peak smartphone form factor limited by the technology of its time. Shame.

This reminds me of a Youtube series a guy did called When Phones Were Fun.

I had a couple Windows Mobile/Pocket PCs. They were flawed, yet awesome in their own way. Early Android was clearly better, but sadly it's become a locked down spy fest. I'd love a new real "Pocket PC".

Not just the hardware. I far prefer icons from that time as well. I hate the modern trend of flat icons with no details. They look like someone mashed them out after 5 minutes in Krita and then drugged their management into believing that it was a recreation of the Mona Lisa.

I miss my N900 with Debian.

Found memories: and the memories are French.

I still have my HTC touch dual and my HTC Magic in a drawer somewhere. Those were such exciting phones, coming from a Nokia.

Flashing Cyanogen Rom and custom recoveries felt so bleeding edge. Now a new phone is just an incremental update. A lot more stable and capable, bit kinda boring

I would love a Bluetooth keyboard cover like that for my s22

Nowadays, we don't even get keyboard covers for popular phones anymore.

I was more of a Palm guy back then, but I picked up a Droid after getting sick of Palm fucking up their new OS and cheaping out on their flagships. They could have been great, but they chose to be shit because they took too many shortcuts and fought too much internally. Design/interface wise, the Pre and PalmOS were brilliant - way ahead of their time.

I miss my Samsung Alias and Alias 2. They were good times.

A friend of mine had the Droid.

At that point I was rocking the T Mobile Vario, which I believe was an HTC. It was, sadly, dog shit. Windows Mobile was not a fun time.

I felt like I skipped this. People my age went to pagers, then sidekick phones, then touch screens.

I went from beeper, to flip phone, then palm pilot.

I must have had serious Wallstreet Stock Broker energy as a teenager.

I loved my G2.

It's in my nightstand drawer now, plump from bad battery bloat. I ran it for 10 years as my bedside alarm clock. It ran a long gone app called NightClock.

My first smartphone is HTC and it looked like yours, but with android.

The Nokia N900 was my fond memory. It ran a version of Linux, opening 'terminal' on my phone never got old.

Still waiting for HTC to make a G3 :-(

Do we have any community for vintage phones already?

I had a similar one that ran windows (CE maybe? I don't recall)

In thought the SMS said SUS and got really confused for a second