Yep I said it, fuck them. They suck. Flip phones are better.
>>54192570
not even for phone calls. but i'd listen. explain why.
>>54192596
Durable, long battery life, flips
>>54192610
battery life for what? phone calls?
>>54192610
>flips
Ah yes the joy of flpping the phone shut.
>>54192570
I agree, flip phones are better
that's all I have to say
>>54192620
Yes and standby
The real winner is Flip Smartphones.
http://www.freetelwireless.com/musashi.html
>>54192570
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW
>>54192749
They don't sell keitai phones outside of japan
>>54192718
Most of those are in Asian countries though we can't get them in America unless we import them (more expensive) and that's even if they freaking work on your cell network.
>>54192763
Ebay does
>>54192782
Anon, the one I linked is coming to America.
>>54192793
Oh? Which provider?
>>54192822
It doesn't say a specific one. The non-flip ones for sale by the same company (Freetel) already seem to be unlocked for all American carriers.
>>54192862
Least it's a start this needs to be a trend.
If I could get a flip phone with google maps (with full narration) and tethering I'd be into it
All I want is a plain fliphone with a really high battery life, and no other features besides calls and texts.
Literally everything available has been designed by a queer, so it has unnecessary design elements on it, usually a screen on the back, and that fucks up the battery life.
>>54192570
There you go, grandad.
>>54193938
That logo looks like it has a Pokeball.
>>54193799
If it's a small screen on the back, there's nothing wrong with that, anon. It's useful for reading notifications, checking cell service, etc.
If it's a massive, full screen like >>54192749 though, yeah it's shit.
>>54194040
Yeah I agree with this, a small touch screen is what's on the front of my phone and I mostly lock it but sometimes it's good for mp3 player controlling and stuff like that. Most of the time I just use that screen like a watch.
>>54192570
Yep.
How much do y'all pay for your service? Want to get a Verizon one with just calls/text to complement my t-mobile service for when I travel to shit parts of the U.S.
>>54192570
Slide phones are better desu
>>54194451
Oh fuck I had that phone. Dropped it in a toilet full of other dude's piss in gym class. Had to pick it up out of there with my bare hand. Whole phone smelled like piss and I washed my hands about 10 times. I still had piss hands for quite a few days. Went to Visual Basic class right after and everyone could smell it. That was an awesome phone.
>>54194229
bet you used a smartphone to take a picture of that
I like smart phones better. I like being able to ask my phone what the forecast is or give me directions to places or call dominoes pizza etc.
I will agree though that mobile web browsers are complete shit unless you have a phablet.
>>54194583
I'd take piss hands over taking visual basic any day
I've had the same flip phone for 5 years. [spoiler]I've only recently had an actual friend to call it with though.[/spoiler] Phones are retarded tech in general though, literally, they slow down so much advancement
>>54192763
>they don't sell phone phones outside of japan
You know, you're not 'cooler' for liking old tech. Dumb fuck neckbeard. I lived through dumb phone use and when mobile phones actually came out. I liked and appreciated the tech and I still have love for some dumb phones, but I'd never use one daily.
If you're purposely crippling yourself by using this in the modern day you're a hipster retard. The time has gone, get over it.
>>54194701
Enjoy being tethered to a wall socket.
>>54192570
i could text blind with my old clamshell.
can't with a touchscreen.
>>54194849
this
>>54194701
If all you do is use a phone for the basics like calls/texts, it makes more sense to use a dumbphone over a Smartphone which likes to sync/upgrade/update all sorts of shit in the background draining your battery while youre not even using the thing.
Personally, I never liked the large screen touchscreens. A happy medium for me was something like the Blackberry.
>>54194701
It's not hipsters, it's neo-luddites. People FLIP THE FUCK OUT when they're asked to try new stuff, and regrettably the same applies for technology inclined which is as ironic as it gets. The psuedo reasons soon follow like
>Smartphones are tracking devices while dumbphones somehow aren't
>smartphones are just for playing games and getting on twitter and facebook
Same reason why people are still stuck in the 80s with amigas and BBS and 90s with usenet and IRC, they'd rather die than change.
Some people have a hard time understanding that new != better in all senses of the word.
slide phones > flip phones
>>54194701
>>54195382
Personally I just like the feel of flip phones over slab smartphones.
If I could have a flip phone with decent specs that ran android, I'd cum buckets. I'm fine with using a smartphone, though.
>>54195522
This is the perfect phone.
>>54195382
Exactly, and why people still use Linux over Windows. Retard hipsters.
>>54192570
Best dumb phone reporting in.
Even managed to snag a charging dock.
>>54195382
>IRC
>not still useful
Are you fucking kidding?
>>54195497
Please just admit you're a luddite. These products have existed for years, you still won't use them.
>>54196068
What? Anon, I currently use a regular smartphone. I live in America, so currently the only Smart flipphone available in the US without import bullshit is that Freetel one, which I'm waiting to see reviews and shit on once it gets released over here.
>>54192570
Fuck cell phones, I have ham radio.
>>54196095
>brags about ham
>posts pic of a 35$ chink piece of garbage
>>54196095
Jesus Christ, those are some Ogre hands.
>>54196121
>Yaesu
>chink
pick one son
>>54196122
Nope, this radio's smaller than a teeny tiny flip phone.
>>54196189
That may be, but your hands are still huge and weird, just looking at your palm and your thumb.
>>54195382
>IRC
Oh yeah, because all the "modern" alternatives are so much better, right ?
>>54196203
That's not me, it's just a pic I got from Google that showed typical sized hands.
>>54192570
I agree but I'm considering jumping ship just for the rare times when I actually browse on my phone and actually being able to transfer things to and from it.
>>54196227
>>54195559
IRC is nothing more than power struggles to kick and ban everyone you don't like, forming gay little circlejerks, taking a smarm-shit, and idling for decades. Add some time to this and you can add to that list nostalgia circlejerking about previous power struggles, circlejerks, smarm-shits, and idling for decades. Also I guess since other services have taken off, also add pretending to be old and talking what all the kids nowadays are using even though you're equally blathering on about a different form of nothing. It was this way in the 80s, 90s, 00s, and will be for this decade and every decade forever.
>>54192620
>>54192650
flip phones are solid if I was going into the desert i would want a backup that has power for days
>>54196368
>it'll be around long after you're dead
Kids today don't understand the difference between a protocol and a web-based business oriented site for shekels.
Someday we'll be saying "Hey remember Facebook?" much like we now say "Hey remember Friendster?"
I hate it what spergy faggots delete their posts:
Anonym⌀us 04/23/16(Sat)21:49:18 No.54196368 ▶
>>54195382
>hating on IRC
it'll be around long after you're dead
>whole thread hating on flip phones
>saying people are luddites
I answer my calls like I'm Captain fucking Kirk, how do you?
>I slide my finger
so fucking advnaced
The only other thing I would prefer is one of those phones from the Matrix movies.
>neckbeard
Fuck you, you know you thought that phone was cool it never really stopped being cool.
>>54194229
Still using mine, senpai.
Been through about 5-6 replacements through the years but they're $30 on ebay so I don't even give a shit when I lose one. The batteries go bad over time but they don't even break, I like to just fucking throw it on the ground as a party trick. All the iphone girls gasp in horror but I pick it up and it's still just the same fine piece of shit that it was before I dropped it.
Fucking love this thing, also lets me feel real smug toward memelennials
>>54194229
>>54196439
I still own dragon skin variant stored somewhere. I loved my razr.
I really want to dig this guy up and try using it again
Fell from 30ft from a rollercoaster at six flags and survived
In pool for 2 hours and survived
Damn thing just doesn't die
>>54196406
The basic argument here is that if the single thing you do is make calls then a dumbphone is better. Yet you are conveniently leaving out wi-fi tethering, business apps, VPN, web browsing for actual information, calendar sync, e-mail, GPS, music, and a trillion other things that you can have because it's a platform that you can run proper programs on instead of dinky little java "apps" on a 200x200 screen.
>IRC will be around long after I'm dead
Sure just like BBSes as they are right now it will be alive full of angry bitter people who pretend to like getting left in the dust like it makes them old or something and 99% of its traffic will be messages about "the good ol' days"
It's perfectly fine if you want to be a luddite, just admit it and nobody will have a problem. It doesn't tend to work out when you instead don't use anything made in the last 15 years yet insist all of that "new" stuff is shit so you have to come up with reasons like games and facebook that you weren't interested in anyway.
>>54196522
The Charcoal Grey Razr was the stuff of legends, considering they never spec'd it to be.
I have no idea how simply changing the color fucked with the overall design so badly, they managed to.
>>54196522
>>54196439
The best part about these newfangled smartiophone devices that all the kids are using nowadays (am I cool yet?) is that you can find cases that offer the protection you need, this is great for the construction industry or for trips to places like this andwhen you're done with the use for it you can take it out in 15 seconds.
>>54195382
>>54196346
>hating on IRC
It'll be around long after you're dead, and there are good people and good projects that use it.
>whole thread hating on flip phones
>saying people are luddites
I answer my calls like I'm Captain fucking Kirk, how do you?
>I slide my finger
so fucking advnaced
The only other thing I would prefer is one of those phones from the Matrix movies.
>neckbeard
Fuck you, you know you thought that phone was cool it never really stopped being cool.
>>54196582
Cuck
>>54196406
sorry
>>54196570
>not posting the plumberphone
missed opportunity, desu
>>54192570
> can't surf web
> bad quality pictures
>>54196570
My protection is built in.
Here it is sitting submerged in water. Gotta spend the extra coin for the doc, though, otherwise you're gonna wear out the rubber seals.
>>54196597
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8
>>54196615
>>54196604
They're ugly as fuck but there are companies that make smartphones with no case/etc that are waterprooft
I'm very disappointed, I expected the pseudo-excuse to be
>CARRYING THAT GIANT BRICK IN YOUR POCKET ALL DAY
>>54196350
All phones rapidly lose juice when they can't get a signal anon. They start crying for mommy (the cell network) more frequently and using more power.
Radio's always best for that kind of shit.
>>54196679
Oh, I know there are military grade smart phones.
I just don't want a smart phone, or the bill that comes with it. I'm happy with my dumb phone, and it costs me $15/month, with everything rolling over, so long as I pay once every 29 days.
>>54196679
Waterproof smart phones have been a thing for a LONG time, anon. Nobody is denying that.
When this fucking thing came out it was the coolest phone ever.
A proto-iPhone, as far as its iconic status and desirability as a social status symbol.
>>54196715
I mean this thing
>>54196537
I didn't say new stuff was shit, no one in this thread did. Are you the old one, going a bit senile maybe?
My phone usage is:
90% on the charger
7% in my pocket
2% being used as a watch because I'm a faggot and I've accepted that
1.69% web browsing
0.1% text messaging
0.01% picture taking
0.3% alarms reminding me to do shit
I live out in the middle of nowhere and have cable Internet and even so it goes out maybe once every other year, so tethering would be nice but I don't need it. There are other useful things proper smartphones can do and they're nice and I might get one just for convenience, but right now I can't be bothered.
>>54196648
the fuck are you on about
>>54196679
Well yeah, that was my excuse back in the day, but I'm a wagecuck nowadays so my phone lives in my backpack. that's less of an issue.
For a long time though the Razr was the thinnest phone you could find* (reasonably), I used to get drunk and skateboard around a bunch with no backpack so having a thin phone that was cheap to replace was important to me.
It's hard to explain, mostly I'm turned off by smartphones by seeing all the mouthbreathing retards around me using them for "Insta" plus a dislike of touchscreen-based interfaces.
I'm gonna buy into the smartphone meme soon enough (my provider ends 2G service in december), but just like those Usenet fags I reserve the right to meme and feel smug about it.
>>54192570
True.
But you can't hack a smart phone with an SD card, so there's that.
>>54196694
I'm curious as to who your provider is, in the USA at least nearly every single phone plan either offers some amount of data, or some amount of data is only $5 more. Can easily get away with 500MB a month if you don't do video or music streaming. I've even seen pre-paid companies offer no plan that doesn't include data.
Certainly not recommending a brand new smartphone, I do agree that newer ones have too many gimmicks that drive the price up. Best value even still is an S3, rooted with a rom, I recommend CM11. Sub $200 for GSM and sub $130 for CDMA initial cost. But there are certainly even more cheap choices, I recommend BLU, they have brand new modern phones for $80 and they have AOSP roms which means you don't totally need to worry about rooting and getting another one if that bothers you. Used would obviously be less.
I recently did this with a friend of mine who was doing the same shit, he was on a flip phone and Verizon and on a shared plan where they were already paying for data and didn't even know. They even tried to turn the data off to "save money" but Verizon doesn't even let you do that anymore. I got him a Razr M for $25 on an ebay auction. Screen was perfect, back was scratched up, didn't care. Battery was fucked and it was annoying to replace but I did it. He was resistant to it every step of the way, gave all the typical luddite reasons. I did it just at the right time because he was using his shit flip phone since 2003? and its screen was not working half the time and he had to rely on restarting it. Anyway after a few days he admitted he was completely wrong to resist it and said he had been "living in the stone age" and was glad I "forced" it on him. Total cost was $35, he's rooted and on some CM KK rom.
Also, to rescind my IRC hating, smartphones have IRC clients, so you can use your data plan to jerk off with the other old people on the go. ba dum tis
>>54196774
>It's hard to explain, mostly I'm turned off by smartphones by seeing all the mouthbreathing retards
I was waiting just for this! Get the otter armor box anon, then your smartphone can look like it's from the 80s and look like one of those brick phones, and you can be like a thinkpad user happy that your laptop is "black and ugly". So then when normies walk up to you, you can be rightfully bitter and tell them to go away
>>54196821
I was on BYO, but it was absorbed by Budget Mobile (an Obamaphone provider). They are limited to 3G, which limits your iPhone and your Android selection by quite a bit.
And I'd rather have a dumb phone that just werks(tm) than have an old android that is riddled with problems. I don't want an iPhone at all.
I get 350 min, unlimited texting, and 50mb for data (for pic messaging) for 15 bucks per month, and it's more than enough. My laptop can be used at work and at home. My Vita has GPS built in, at no additional cost.
Good enough for me.
>>54192749
>Smart flip-phone
muh nigga
>>54196941
>>54192749
I really wish they stopped with the front display shit
>>54196896
would never tell anyone to go iphone but again I cannot stress enough how android was indeed shit as you think even as late as 2012. I am a massive samsung fanboy but even I must admit that they simply cannot make software at all, that's all that touchjizz shit you've heard about, an S3 is a powerful phone but can't even run its own software. That's why you root and on samsung you can't brick the phone unless you're really trying to, worst that happens is it Kernel Panics and you flash a new rom and try again.
If you're limited to 3G you can of course get any 4G or whatever phone as they still include the 3G modem exactly for this reason.
When the phone comes with an AOSP rom you don't have to worry nearly as much about getting another rom because AOSP means it's lacking all this manufacturer shitware that comes with it. Again BLU and other chink manufacturers make very great offers with $80 and even $50 models. If you want a manufacturer that ships AOSP and is more powerful than this, go for the google nexus series. If you care about offline GPS google maps has supported that for a while now along with a lot of other free third party apps.
Anyway I'm just letting you know there is no "secret smartphone charge" if you are paying for data of any kind. If you are on GSM you can just swap sim cards and I don't think the ISP can even know. You can also elect to turn off mobile data on the phone if you knew you didn't have it, they have that feature too.
>>54196994
>If you're limited to 3G you can of course get any 4G or whatever phone as they still include the 3G modem exactly for this reason.
Not on Budget Mobile, you can't. You'll just wind up losing your number.
And I know I can do all that. I gave a smart phone a try a few years ago (Droid 3 from Moto). A month later, i went back to my dumb phone. I'm still happy with it.
Bring my laptop and Vita to work, and bring it home with me. No biggie.
