Why is it that despite all the advancements of the last couple of years...

Why is it that despite all the advancements of the last couple of years, mankind has yet to create a phone more aesthetic than the Razr?

Because humanity peaked the year this phone was released. it's been downhill since then.

It's easy to create an aesthetic gizmo when it has limited applications

This right here.

The more general a device is, the more you have to make compromises to get it to work together.

As our technology stands now, we could have hyperthin flip phones with good durability and excellent battery life, but we've had to make compromises because people want something with more features.

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you have shit tastes my dood.

So everyone jumped from this Nokia, to the Razr, and then iPhone.

>hyperthin flip phones
Makes me sad that we don't, that's all I want.

Piece of shit interface.

Because the Razr was really quite tacky. You just lack taste.

i liked the katana myself. the case was aluminum, the phone had a satisfying weight

hi guys

protip from someone who was old enough to remember these: the software sucked, the screen was ass, the keyboard felt cheap, and it's was the "iPhone" of it's time with regards to being a status symbol among teenage girls.

nokia 3110 > motorola razr > blackberry pearl > iphone 3s

teenage girl taste but it just works

>not a switchblade phone

Protip from finding that had one. The keyboard didn't feel cheap, or felt decent enough. The predictive input was easier. The screen was OK, if just a bit small. The biggest issue was a lack of java, which only affected Verizon used, but that was correctable of you flashed the ROM of another country. I used the one from jewland.

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would thatphone work ok on, say, the Verizon network in the us? i really like it

howdy
yess, V3i is the superior model

Cough cough
Moto Q.

But BlackBerry did

Move to Europe, Nokia branded devices past 2015ish, including that one don't really work in the US, let alone CDMA networks sadly

No

I own this phone

Ama

the razr was garbage.
you could open and close the phone real fast and the phone would lag behind, and would turn itself on and off trying to catch up to the number of times it was opened and closed.
the interface was terrible.
the phone was nothing more than a wannabe startac appeasing to the upcoming onslaught of normies purchasing cell phones

>doesnt support 12 different languages for the inputs while still retaining physical keyboard

>you could open and close the phone real fast and the phone would lag behind, and would turn itself on and off trying to catch up to the number of times it was opened and closed.

I just tested this on my V3, V3i and a V3xx with no results. You're either a bad liar or got a bad phone.

It's too bad they never made one of these that ran Android. IMO one of the best phone designs in recent memory.

What's the java applet ecosystem like these days?
How's the web browser?
Does typing using T9 still hold up?

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THE REAL REASON IS THIS ONE:

Before, companies had to make an effort to design a product that stand out from among the rest, they would seek the Normie's attention by designing a beautiful piece of eye candy (ie; iShit 4 or Samshit GS3). Something to make a statement.

Cell phones where seen as a luxury item, now they are a tool, or a necessity... you dont buy a fancy, cool looking tool because it costs loots of money, you find the cheapest one, or the more easy to use.

Phone manufacturers dont give a fuck anymore, all the phones look the same because they are trying to cut costs like crazy and just shart out the cheapest fucking phone they can come up with.

For an example iCrap: shit choice of colors, no imagination design, almost no design changes, no eye candy, just plain fucking boring. Its made that way to attract retards that don't want to be different, or old people that just get what others are buying.

Samshit: Same BS , might change a things a bit because it needs to compete against crApple and their iCrap, but has a different targeted audience.

crApple sets the trends because its what sells the most, if you see someone having success, than you will think if it just werks for him, than it will just werk for me 2, thus Samshit, and all the other phone manufuckers are doing the same exact shit as crApple.

Example of shit setting: Exploding batteries that cant be serviced by a common normie (because taking the back cover off your phone is too difficult), fuck the headphone jack cus we want more moneyz, go buy our retarded adapter or give us your shekels BECAUSE FUCK YOU.

TL,DR: Phones are designed to be as profitable as possible, fuk u & ur pretty phones

Of course it was shit when you're holding it in relation to today's phones, shit even testing my XZ1c against my S5A yields huge results. It was a flagship phone in those days, period. I could text faster on a RAZR than I can on a smartphone today, and more accurately too.

Apple doesn't sell the most?

They where the most profitable i think, maybe they didnt sell the most back then, but (((They))) do now.

I see most the normies from work use nothing but iCraps. most the people I go to church with NOTHING but iCraps, go out, see reetards with nothing but iCraps.

ITS FUCKING EVERYWHERE.

>doesn't have a keyboard trackpad

>circumstantial statistics
>anecdotal bullshit
>church

You have to be 18 to make use of Sup Forums.

Oh man that's hot

Guess you are right (+1 INTERNET to you good sir), thanks for pointing that out. But the way i see it user, more and more retards are buying iShit.

I might not have a chart to prove it, but lets face it, iCrap is ls spreading like cancer. More and more each time senpai.

How long till all the market is infected by iAids?
How long till the duopoly kills all other brands?

Far out I haven't seen that pic in a while

well don't know about you but I'm so furious that my high end phone doesn't have a fucking FM chip!!!!!!!!!!

when was the last time you saw something like this?

its all fucking bland now

Used an Asha 503, pretty much the same system, so:
>java
It's ok, you can install .jar apps but depending on whether it was developed for touchscreen or not it could work. Uses Opera Mobile store by default.
>web browser
Used to have a proprietary browser that was pretty decent, new update kills it and installs opera web, everything that was designed 2012 and up sucks
>T9
You'll slowly catch up to speed, it'll be like using a keypad phone again.
And hell they made their own Spotify ripoff (groove music), think Spotify premium for free, sad it got axed when Nokia dissolved

ah fuck, it was mixradio. Shit was good. You'll see this in many apps now

Do you like it? I'm honestly thinking about getting it. I text a fair amount and going back to T9 would suck, but I waste too much time on my phone

I actually matched with this chick on Tinder. I can't make this shit up.

meant for

This was the best phone I've ever had.

my sister had this and it felt great in the hand. was heavy as fuck

I wanted this so badly back in the day.
Also I wanted N95, because it had super good camera, that is somewhat better that majority of modern shit has.
I really miss old symbian phones, because they were perfect, they ran on super slow processors, and yet they were faster than my current android with 1.4 quad-core.

>physical keyboards
>two screens, one shows you notifications so you don't need to press a button to check things
>has some sort of green button that directly allows you to make calls
>grip allows for actually stable photos with the camera

W...what is this? Is it new technology?

It was a fake, dude.

My KEYone does this
Also
>rotating a square

Always liked the Katana more than the Razr

>rotating a square
Easier to hold, easier to scroll. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

I don't understand the Passport. I have a Classic which fits in my pocket and has the toolbelt.

Manager at work had the Passport before IT said it wasn't secure anymore and he had to use an iPhone instead. That thing couldn't fit easily in his pocket; the thing bent at the corners because it didn't fit in the pocket well.

At least the passport has a better processor than the Classic?

I love mine. Initially I thought it'd be dumb because of the three row keyboard but my only regret is not getting one sooner. It's pretty easy to put in a pocket too, you just hook one corner in, slip in the other corner, and drop it in
>At least the passport has a better processor than the Classic
Yeah, the Classic's got a slightly better processor than the Q10 and the Passport's got an SoC with twice the cores and higher clock

Really the only benefit has in my eyes is the SoC, which I'd solely need for browsing. The whole reason I moved from Android to BBOS a couple years ago was to escape the Google botnet and the desire to install apps.

After figuring it out, I was very pleased with BBOS and how great the Hub is. The OS feels feature complete, too. Too bad they've moved on to Android.