137 points

The cover cushioned the phone so that anything it hit would have a chance to survive. It’s for the protection of everything else

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13 points

To this day bunker buster bombs consist of cardboard poster tubes filled Nokia phones.

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60 points

It had a belt clip, that was the only reason to get one of these. I had one.

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22 points

And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.

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4 points

And rain, I don’t think these had IP ratings

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2 points

I have too much self respect to clip anything to my belt /s

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2 points

You were the king/queen with a Nokia on your belt.

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1 point

It’s really too bad how much their smartphones suck compared to the old phone days.

Them and Kodak

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24 points

Yeah, the cover protects anything that the phone falls on.

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19 points

It’s not for you; it’s to make HER feel sexy. You wouldn’t understand smh.

(/s, if it’s needed)

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15 points
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Everyone plays up the 3310 as a snake-playing text-messaging mjolnir but I had a Motorola Talkabout that survived being spiked into the pavement once. The battery popped out but I put it back in and made a phone call.

turns out a plastic shell with some give in the structure can take abuse more gracefully than a solid brick made of glass. and aluminum.

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I had a Nokia something or another, it was a stick phone from sprint, somebody got pissed and threw it full speed, across the room, into a concrete wall, and it flew into like 7 pieces.

However, when I put those 7 pieces back together, that son of a bitch went on running.

I guess there’s trade offs for everything, but the younger generations will never know how to send a t9 text from your pocket

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I always had flip phones until the QWERTY keyboard era but I really do miss being able to text by feel.

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