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It looks a lot older than it is.

2006 to 2013

tbh it does look like 1990-2005 era tech to me

2010 had many 2001 vibes still left over

I would’ve definitely guessed early 90s. Hell, the IBM Simon was introduced in 1994.

Looks loke my dad’s old windows phone back in 2005.

My very uneducated guess is that it looks like it was meant for the enterprise market, and judging by the way any other piece of enterprise hardware looks even today, design trends are like 10-15 years behind. And since you have to guarantee serviceability and backwards compatibility, the design will be much slower to change, compared to consumer tech.

I’m going to be a retvrn guy but instead of a statue my profile picture is going to be this thing.

Everybody gangsta until you gotta unclog the toilet

sorry i had to log in to confirm - are you not using plungers? are you not using plungers every time that the toilet is clogged? 100% of the time?

On the plunger right?

Look at Mr Fancy Plunger Pants over here. Got money and room for a dedicated toilet unblocking majigger. Probably take big poops just so you can satisfiedly unblock the pooper again without using your hands.

Some of us just get our hand in there and get the job done, when my toilet blocked regularly I just used a bin bag as arm protection 'cause it’s what we had. Can’t all live in a big plunger castle like yerself yer majesty.

upon revisiting this - i have decided i am not working class but instead a part of the petty boogie-woogie and to maintain this status i am going to start a luxury plunger business with manufacturing set up off-shore somewhere

Sometimes when you need a plunger, life only gives you a plastic bag.

in '09 I had this slide out physical QWERTY keyboard phone. like you turned the phone on its side and split the phone like you were splitting a deck of cards in half.

kinda like this one. https://i0.wp.com/www.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/Samsung-Stratosphere-keyboard1.jpg

shit was actually badass for browsing and texting. afk brb fuk u 2 lol l8r

My first smartphone was a second-hand Motorola Droid A855 that I got in like 2012 (I think it was about 2-3 years old by the time I got it). That keyboard was great and I hated how smartphones were slowly moving away from it.

I had one of those too and I miss it every day

i had one of those too and i loved it so much

i honestly thought all phones would end up like that and was very disappointed that it was basically one of the only models to exist

My gf in college had this phone lol

Those ruled. Fucking hate touch screens

Yeah I loved that shit my thumbs suck at virtual keyboards

I’m surprised there isn’t a market for a case with built-in slideout keyboard, I’d hate to have to choose between physical keyboard and rest-of-phone-good.

there definitely is, they just don’t care

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