What is your favorite phone OS growing up?
Android is my favorite currently, but when I was growing up it was Symbian, comparing it to java it was miles ahead with way more advanced capabilities!
Android is my favorite currently, but when I was growing up it was Symbian, comparing it to java it was miles ahead with way more advanced capabilities!
j4yc33, Maemo and Windows Phone Metro.
s804, oh wow i have never heard of maemo, sounds really interesting i will check it out!
j4yc33, There's a modern-ish fork of it for PinePhone. I haven't yet tried it, but I intend to!
BigVault, I was big on Symbian S60 and my all time favourite phone was the Nokia N95.
Camera was way ahead of anything at the time and was the first time I felt that I could get by with a phone camera. Got some lovely shots in that when I had it.
I even had a soft spot for the N-Gage and later the N-Gage QD. Total failures however.
s804, all these were for me too, i loved them! but i had a nokia 6600. then i got a second hand ngage!
dominoko, Growing up? Oh no I'm old!
s804, hahaha
asteroidrainfall, (edited ) Palm OS was ahead of its time as well. It’s a shame that they couldn’t adapt fast enough to keep their relevance.
Though I grew up in the age of feature phones. The Razor was all the rage. Man, it was so thin.
s804, i am so surprised i have never heard of it, but i keep seeing it in this thread
epyon22, Webos was so far ahead of it's time. It took years of android porting many of it's features over. Now it just lives on TV's.
It's hard to comprehend how far ahead the palm pre and webos was. Sprint wasn't even selling android phones yet. But webos had cards, advanced account integrations, full browser and a beautiful interface
Timwi, You make me feel so old, dude. My first handheld device was a Pocket PC in 2000, and I was already grown up by then.
s804, my first handheld was the classic gameboy haha
Timwi, Oh lol, well if that counts, then mine too!! I was thinking general-purpose device comparable to a modern smartphone.
s804, thats so cool.. it ate so many batteries though and didnt even have backlight haha still love it, and especially the opening nintendo sound
Timwi, My favorite music was the end-credits music of SuperMarioLand. I would play through the whole game just to hear it, and then keep it going on infinite loop until it ran out of battery.
s804, i loved its for sure too! thats cute hahah
xmetal, I was all over Dialtone 1.0. That was rad, really responsive. Pick that bad boy off the wall and it was ready to go! Limited feature set tho 😆
Saturdaycat, Palm OS, hands down.
s804, never heard of it, very interesting!
asteroidrainfall, They had some really impressive devices in the early 2000s. You had to dock it to your PC and sync all your stuff to it, kinda like an iPod but for emails and documents. Some of them even supported external keyboards!
s804, oh wow this seems so cool!
Brad_Brace, Damn this makes me feel old. I'm from before phones had OS.
s804, hahaha
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s804, oh wow what a history! i remember my first phone only had one line so to text you had to wait for the screen to slowly scroll, t is so funny now but back then it was revolutionary!
herzberd, I really loved what windows phone was doing before they did the windows 10 merge thing. Just a really nicely constructed UI
s804, Never had a windows phone, always wanted one. did it feel like pc windows or it was its own thing?
emigoon, same here, a windows phone was my first smartphone and to this day I love that UI more than almost anything else since then
schizanon, rotary
anathema_device, @schizanon same :)
s804, nice!
s804, our first phone was rotary!
talizorah, Windows Phone in the 7/8 era. It felt well composed, all it’s features worked pretty well, and it was fluid and smooth.
Did it have a lot of features? No, but what it had it did well. Once the concept of apps took off hard, it was clear WP wouldn’t get the popular ones, and with Microsoft beefing with Google at the time, the OS lost all its support and died.
s804, damn i am jealous now that i never experienced a windows phone growing up!
whenlifegivesyoureddit, My first was Symbian but my favourite will always be Windows phone. I still run square home launcher to get that familiar tile screen on my pixel 6 pro
s804, aww that is cute hahaha
squeebee, Landline
s804, it was fun when we had internet on hahaha
schizanon, Mine was a party line because we lived out in the country. I had to listen real careful for clicking sounds cause our neighbors could pickup and listen to our conversations.
squeebee, @schizanon that's unsettling!
s804, oof..
olrik, My first "OS" growing up was an old black analog telephone with a ring dial. I got my first mobile phone when I was about 20 years old and it was a simple Samsung with black and white 1" screen and an antenna that popped out. I had my first smartphone many years later.
s804, that sounds really cool! the first mobile phones were SO HEAVY!
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