I am not someone who swaps out his phones often. I had an old Nokia until 2011, when I got an HTC Desire Z. That one lasted until 2017 and was still working (although the sliding keyboard had no backlight anymore) when I got a Galaxy A5 sometime during the summer, I think it was. Still using that today with no indication of any issues.
How smart was that Nokia? I have had a number of mobile pre-smartphones that lasted many years, though the only Nokia I had was around 1995 and it was barely mobile, considering the coverage zone. I hated the phone and managed to quickly transfer it to a cowrker, but strangely enough I continued to admire Nokia until Microsoft nuked the company.
My Sharp had one of those sliding keyboards, but I did NOT regard it as a smartphone. The OS was Microsoft and it was dumb, Dumb, DUMB. It may have lasted 3 or 4 years...
However, mostly I think you're supporting my premise that they've gotten better at designing for shorter lifetimes. Didn't you have battery problems? Or were you a light user?
(I saw another comment asking about that forgotten maker, but I still can't remember. I've been through a lot of them through the years. However I can say that it wasn't an iPhone, though I did a lot of support that involved them at certain times...)
"My Sharp had one of those sliding keyboards, but I did NOT regard it as a smartphone. The OS was Microsoft and it was dumb, Dumb, DUMB. It may have lasted 3 or 4 years"
I've heard that Windows Phone had gotten good right before M$ killed off that product line.:|
The two biggest blunders I have ever heard of was T-Mobie's Sidekick , and the Microsoft Kin. Wow those were turkeys!
The first was a very good example of why you wouldn't want to be fully dependent on "The Cloud" after that infamous outage a
> I've heard that Windows Phone had gotten good right before M$ killed off that product line.:|
When Microsoft stopped updating my Nokia Windows phone last December (after years of keeping it up-to-date), I stopped using that phone...except I leave it next to my bed as an alarm clock, since that still works. And it turns out a lot of the other things still work: the weather app (which I still like better than other weather app), browser, camera (better than my new phone's camera), and a few other thing
The version I had was a long time ago. Windows CE ring a bell? The update mechanism also reeked like the big dog's m0e.
However, you reminded me of an old flip phone that I was also using as an alarm clock long after I'd changed carriers. Quite a robust little phone and never needed a fresh battery, though it only needed recharging every couple of weeks, as I recall. The best feature was actually a little language game that they'd created. Memory is fuzzy, but I think it was a Sanyo, which is a company that
It was one of the indestructible 3310s, if I remember the number right. Very un-smart; could play Snake and used the multiple presses on the keypad for each letter when writing texts.
Going to an actual smartphone in the HTC Desire did come with battery surprises, yes. But that was also a device that did SO MUCH MORE, and you don't get that much extra functionality without spending more power for it, unfortunately. The battery never physically died in it, though. No battery issues with my A5 either; in fact
I have a 2006 Nokia E61 which by some measures could be considered a smart phone, it ran their proprietary Symbian OS, had a browser, email, Skype, plenty of other apps and I was beginning to enjoy playing around with python on it. The E71 was smaller, more beautiful, had a lovely keyboard that beats my current Blackberry Priv, a very slow to sync aGPS and the best online maps on any phone I've ever had. Seriously folks, there are not many iPhones in the Wadi Rum desert, rural Ireland, Jerusalsum or newly c
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Not my experience (Score:3)
I am not someone who swaps out his phones often. I had an old Nokia until 2011, when I got an HTC Desire Z. That one lasted until 2017 and was still working (although the sliding keyboard had no backlight anymore) when I got a Galaxy A5 sometime during the summer, I think it was. Still using that today with no indication of any issues.
Re:Not my experience (Score:2)
How smart was that Nokia? I have had a number of mobile pre-smartphones that lasted many years, though the only Nokia I had was around 1995 and it was barely mobile, considering the coverage zone. I hated the phone and managed to quickly transfer it to a cowrker, but strangely enough I continued to admire Nokia until Microsoft nuked the company.
My Sharp had one of those sliding keyboards, but I did NOT regard it as a smartphone. The OS was Microsoft and it was dumb, Dumb, DUMB. It may have lasted 3 or 4 years...
However, mostly I think you're supporting my premise that they've gotten better at designing for shorter lifetimes. Didn't you have battery problems? Or were you a light user?
(I saw another comment asking about that forgotten maker, but I still can't remember. I've been through a lot of them through the years. However I can say that it wasn't an iPhone, though I did a lot of support that involved them at certain times...)
Re: Not my experience (Score:1)
"My Sharp had one of those sliding keyboards, but I did NOT regard it as a smartphone. The OS was Microsoft and it was dumb, Dumb, DUMB. It may have lasted 3 or 4 years"
I've heard that Windows Phone had gotten good right before M$ killed off that product line. :|
The two biggest blunders I have ever heard of was T-Mobie's Sidekick , and the Microsoft Kin. Wow those were turkeys!
The first was a very good example of why you wouldn't want to be fully dependent on "The Cloud" after that infamous outage a
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> I've heard that Windows Phone had gotten good right before M$ killed off that product line. :|
When Microsoft stopped updating my Nokia Windows phone last December (after years of keeping it up-to-date), I stopped using that phone...except I leave it next to my bed as an alarm clock, since that still works. And it turns out a lot of the other things still work: the weather app (which I still like better than other weather app), browser, camera (better than my new phone's camera), and a few other thing
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The version I had was a long time ago. Windows CE ring a bell? The update mechanism also reeked like the big dog's m0e.
However, you reminded me of an old flip phone that I was also using as an alarm clock long after I'd changed carriers. Quite a robust little phone and never needed a fresh battery, though it only needed recharging every couple of weeks, as I recall. The best feature was actually a little language game that they'd created. Memory is fuzzy, but I think it was a Sanyo, which is a company that
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It was one of the indestructible 3310s, if I remember the number right. Very un-smart; could play Snake and used the multiple presses on the keypad for each letter when writing texts.
Going to an actual smartphone in the HTC Desire did come with battery surprises, yes. But that was also a device that did SO MUCH MORE, and you don't get that much extra functionality without spending more power for it, unfortunately. The battery never physically died in it, though. No battery issues with my A5 either; in fact
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