Nokia getting Stephen Elop as CEO was fucking stupid
it was sabotage by microsoft to force them out of the market. they bought the lumia trademark after nokia gave up.
Bring back blackberries and physical buttons and linux and hookers and cocaine.
And phones that don’t shatter when you sneeze at them.
You sneeze at your phone? The cojones on this one
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.
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.
I don’t know where and I don’t remember when but I’ve seen some investigation that phones with detachable covers and batteries survive falls better because those moving parts disperse the energy of the fall better, instead of all the shock going into the next stress point - the screen or the glass on the back
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.
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
palm treo was goated, never understood why i would want to touch the screen wirh my dirty ass fingers, i miss those pens
Capitalism disinvented tactile feedback.
No wonder I love my 1986 IBM keyboard so much.
The Model F and M were developed with the direct collaboration of professional typists, and were awarded the most comfortable typing experience. They are my dream board, and I want them.
Sadly, Model F’s are out of my price range, for now, but you can find model M’s with adapters for less than 200.
Which I know is a lot, but I will be using at least a model M for the rest of my life.
Fun fact: The pen is called a stylus. They were also used in ancient times to put marks in clay tablets.
Cuneiform! I happen to be something of a cuneilinguist myself!
The Palm Pre was damn right gorgeous, even came with a cheese knife built it!
Jokes aside, the Pre is one of the most beautiful phones I have ever seen.
even came with a cheese knife built it!
Was it French?
Nah, it had a relatively sharp edge by the keyboard:
Lmao, what a machine
Palm didn’t need an “app for that”. It was equipped!
My dream phone:
- UEFI (can boot any OS without 2 months of porting and a risk of bricking)
- Repairable, but also upgradeable (thanks to UEFI)
- Keyboard
While UEFI is better than the garbage we currently have it’s still shit in comparison to proper firmware like OPAL
What is OPAL, and does it allow one OS to run without device-specific porting?
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.
Palm Pre 2 was the last great phone that lived. It was right after the HP acquisition and before the HP bullshit. I still have it. I wish it could handle modern networks.
Why is Leo Apotheker in this picture ?!
Well, webOS is alive and well… It just became the shittiest spy-TV ad-ridden cancer in existence at the hands of LG…
Waited nearly 8 minutes only for the request to “time out”. I have never had a poor experience with Anubis and, in fact, they’ve all been night and day better than anything else out there, until today.
Huh, I didn’t think this one would go over Anubis at all. I’ll take a look at it.
It’s just a meme GIF from the Godfather where he says “look how they massacred my boy.”
Not sure. But that gif is perfect lolol! Thank you for describing it!
No idea how you got to Anubis. Image downloads are specifically exempt from it. Just opening the images URL should not even let you touch Anubis.
