palm treo was goated, never understood why i would want to touch the screen wirh my dirty ass fingers, i miss those pens
Fun fact: The pen is called a stylus. They were also used in ancient times to put marks in clay tablets.
Yeah, I look at the screen of my phone when it’s off and 🤮
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.
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.
Yeah and remember, that happened at the same time as as Steve Ballmer at Microsoft retired and Satya Nadella took over, he was against the deal, and two years later the new company was shutdown.
From what I have read, the Nokia leadership needed a shake up when Elop was appointed CEO, I absolutely believe that a shake up was needed, but Elop was absolutely the wrong guy to deliver it.
A dream phone of mine would be the Nokia N950, it was a devkit for the Nokia N9, I played around with Meego for a bit, and it was brilliant, with an added keyboard it would have been awesome.
I have had plenty of mobile phones in my life:
- Nokia 3330
- Sony Ericsson K700i
- Nokia 5110
- Nokia 8210
- Sony Ericsson K800i
- Nokia 5800
- Nokia E7
- Nokia E72
- Nokia Asha 300
- Apple iPhone 5S
- Apple iPhone 6S
- Apple iPhone SE
- Nokia 6.1
- Apple iPhone 12 Mini
- Apple iPhone 16e
The one phone I keep thinking of and missing the most is the E7.
Beautiful phone, brilliant keyboard, great quality, sightly too slippery.
It was my first big boy phone, I bought mine with my first paycheck, I bought it at Siba on Kungsgatan in Stockholm.
It got stolen less than a year later, probably pickpoketed on the train…
Unless you’re willing to spend serious €€€, forget the N950.
But both the N900 and the N9 can be had for cheap on the used market (at least here in Finland lol) and are excellent examples for a true Linux phone that actually works.
Still dislike Microsoft for cheaping out on the later generations Lumia. Cheaper displays so the 950 didnt support Glance. Wth?
I still miss my 920 tho. The Lumia 920 is only recently dethroned as my favorite (smart)phone of all time.
Microsoft messed up badly in Europe by completely and utterly ignoring the continent. Nokia managed to gain a larger marketshare than Apple in both Italy and France at the time. With meaningful marketshares in the rest of Europe.
Nokia was doing alright in several Asian countries Microsoft ignored as well.
After the take over, Microsoft kept all their resources forced on the US market, failed and in turn lost the European and Asian markets.
GG.
