Where did everything go wrong?

Where did everything go wrong?

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What's the problem?

The iPhone

What do you mean by wrong? You can probably draw any phone on the left off the screen of a modern smartphone.

It's called progress and you're trying to make shitty old phones seem somewhat desirable.

There's no longer diversity in appearance, especially now with the no bezel meme

Everything's a generic glass slate now.

So? It's when you turn it on that you see the difference. Physical buttons have been replaced a long time ago.

>Physical buttons have been replaced a long time ago.

I use a prepaid flip phone. I have a fondness for feature phones.

Maybe people finally realized that the screen is the most important part of the phone?

If you turned on the screens of all the smartphones they would look more diverse, because you can do whatever you want with it. More freedom. Plus all those old phones are ugly.

>the thing held up against your cheek during use is the most important part

Additionally, for the smartphone side, they didn't include any of the color variants. Stupid image, stupid thread.

So there's no variety anymore. All the phone hardware is so fucking bland now.
>Physical buttons have been replaced a long time ago
This is another major issue with modern phones.
>Plus all those old phones are ugly
Nah

Nothing went wrong, that's just the ideal form for a phone meant for various functions. You could make a case for a physical keyboard, but other than that, what exactly are smartphones missing that previous phones had?

I think youmean featureless.

>bland
What's bland about a large enough screen that can display some decent looking video? Again physical buttons are fine on a cell phone but useless on a smartphone.
Get a regular cell phone. They still make them.

>All the phone hardware is so fucking bland now.
Literally nobody cares but you. It's all the same because that formula is the most efficient and consumer-friendly. You may as well ask why all TVs look the same, or all DSLRs.

What year is this, 2004?

That people have been hoodwinked into thinking that a screen smaller than your hand is an acceptable way to watch video shows the power of marketing to shape opinion.

>what's bland about a black rectangle that has thousands of different models that look pretty much identical

>Literally nobody cares but you
Considering I'm not OP that's blatantly false.

>no more physical keyboards on phones
Just fucking end this ride.
Only soyboys with fingers thinner than their boyfriends' can use a touch keyboard without relying on autocorrect.
I miss when you got tactile feedback from pressing a physical button.
>inb4 physiocal components more prone to breaking
Every phone I've had with a physical keyboard outlasted by "smartphone teehee".

>WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA MOMMY WHY ARNT PHOONS COLORFUL ANYMORE???!?,?ยง??!!?

shut the fuck up nigger are you genuinely autistic?

No one's stopping you from buying a BlackBerry.

Jokes on you, I just ordered one.

Nice

Once again, Clive Sinclair is proven to be a genius visionary with poor marketing.

Ha ha you got pranked

Thanks user, it's the Blackberry Classic from 2015.

How? I was suggesting a BlackBerry and he bought one.

Mah nigga, I was assuming you were getting a KEYone but you went full patrician.

The winning design has been found.
Notice how different and unique WWI-WWII tanks looked because people were groping around for a design that works best? Then they found it, and most of them look the same with minor variations nowadays.

When decoding video using good codecs at actual visible resolutions became possible on mobile processors and graphics.

They didn't really conceive the idea that phones may be good enough to be multimedia devices. That's why they were small with lots of bezel eye candy. Why the fuck would you want a small screen with a reasonably good processor by today's standards?

You want a flashy looking phone? Go to an indian market and buy a minion iphone case or something.

>left - screens on
>right - screens off
that's your problem

That's not the case here, it's cheaper to just slap a big screen on a device than to make keyboard for each phone. Then people were deluded into thinking they wanted the trash.

Only soyboys with fingers thinner than their boyfriends' can use a touch keyboard without relying on autocorrect.
hahahahahaha you fat clumsy fuck

I actually briefly had the classic as a loaner when my (((iPhone 4S))) broke about half a year ago, fell in love with it.
Can't wait to get it.

I miss the mid-2000s flip-phone era. Pic related was an amazing phone.

The right cellphones look all different to me

So you're agreeing with user? You didn't greentext that, so I assume you're stating it as well.

You are welcome to use the old technology faggot.

Just get a phone case if you're that autistic about a phone's exterior

So fucking buy one you idiot

> Using a mobile tracking device post-Snowden
Doesn't everyone already know to not use these any more?

spbp but was completely ignored. Apple's marketing fucked over the foreseeable future of computing and usability with touchscreens. They suck to this day, but they're so ubiquitous that people have gotten used to them.

>phone case
Gross

Brilliant. Now I have a coloured slab of glass.

As opposed to a colored slab of plastic

I'm with you on this one. The only smart phones with hard keyboards now are Blackberry garbage.

I've slowed down my typing speed significantly since my Samsung Glyde. Soft key sucks. I don't know why we all adopted this meme when it's a terrible interface. Half of your typing is correcting shitty mistakes you or your autocorrect make.

>just buy more products goy
Fuck off.

it's awful, I need to change mine no matter which I choose I'll end up paying for a shit ton of stuff I don't need.
where's the fucking free market when you need it, I just need basic interwebs and a gps

>muh diversity
>>/leftypol/

MMS no longer works on modern networks

[citation needed]

This was unironically the best phone I have ever owned. I would buy this again in a heartbeat if they released an modern version that supported Android and had microSD.

Why is that blackberry on the right?

Because it's a modern phone like the rest

voice calls are the least-useful thing that phones do

This is what true innovation looks like.

yall check the new psion

theregister.co.uk/2017/02/27/the_psions_is_back_meet_gemini/
for lazy cunts

Mechanical controls have been pushed out by screens. What is your problem?

>Muh nostalgia
Most of them were fucking ugly, I prefer modern black tiles than those bulky toy looking phones

autism

It's only a black rectangle if it's turned off you retard, you can't use a phone that isn't turned on
>Inb4 I like to stare at my phone and not use it
Grow up you fucking child, it's a phone not a toy

My galaxy s7 edge is blue you retard

What year do you think it is, 1986?

Yes it does you fucking ape

In USA they switched mms to use internet connectivity. Not sure about other countries.

>It's only a black rectangle if it's turned
You felt the need to tell people that screens aren't black when they're on and you're calling others retarded? Holy shit.
>you can't use a phone that isn't turned on
I make use of my phone quite often without it being on
>Grow up you fucking child, it's a phone not a toy
Eat shit, there's nothing wrong with wanting a device I use all the time to look halfway decent.
>not a toy
Try telling the manufacturers that, maybe they'll start releasing phones with physical keyboards again.

>I make use of my phone quite often without it being on
explain

Glancing at it to check for messages and texting from my computer

just swipe techcuck

Swiping helps to make touchscreen keyboards bearable but it's still no replacement for a real keyboard.

Before: communication devices
After: media consumption devices

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I still have a recording somewhere with fifteen year old me capturing how my watch hit midnight June 29, 2007. Truly the start of a new era.

Anybody have one of those chinese cardphones?