That Motorola RAZR in the middle, god that was an awesome phone. So sleek. Satisfying to close!
Porn, this meme used to say porn! Why do we keep self censoring?
The social media algorithms that give us fake internet points have conditioned us to comply.
We’re on Lemmy though. Even if it were censored you could simply post it to an instance that won’t censor.
That’s why the original commentor was complaining about it. And I’m agreeing with them.
I agree with the sentiment, but porn is maybe too restrictive. Phones basically became the new TV.
Good point, overall short form video apps must trounce porn sites
While porn is definitely part of it, you can also watch Futurama on your phone.
That’s essentially porn for your soul
Because reposters don’t care, they just repost as is, they don’t restore, decensor or remaster anything… And there’s no incentive to, people will upvote anything, there’s no minimum quality anymore (if there ever was at all).
Do tankies hate porn?
I have never met anyone that didn’t like porn. Even your most prudish Christians like porn. Why do you think they fight so hard to ban it, they like it and are ashamed for liking it.
It used to be porn but that was back when phone screens were 16:9. Now they are 18:9 and thats for vertical scrolling of social media feeds.
2000 star tac flip phone…you were perfection. beam me up Scottie!
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could watch stuffcould watch adsAnd porn
I remember back in 1990ish, there was a guy involved in the local music scene who got interviewed on AM radio (Right before the rise of conservative talk radio, when there were still local hosts talking about local issues.). This guy wasn’t a big shot and not a musician, just a guy passabout music. tmusic. He went by the moniker Jim Clevo, I had the fortune of meeting him once. Anyways, he had insight as to where the music industry was headed. In the interview, he told how in the future we would be listening to music through our phones. At the time high tech was a cordless landlines with an answering machine built in. He sounded crazy, i couldn’t figure out why he thought we would all be holding phones up to our ears listening to music, I never had anything but a corded phone at the time. Not sure why I’m rambling about it other than this post reminded me of him.
Was he frank zappa?
https://www.grunge.com/139089/rock-stars-who-freakishly-predicted-the-future/
I mean as soon as cassettes were a thing, mix tapes by holding the cassette to the radio became a thing right? Why not phones?
Hell back in the 80s, before the breakup of Yugoslavia, they went a step further: they had a home PC that could be built from parts available at electronics stores. It used a cassette recorder for a HDD.
A local radio station started broadcasting software, pc owners could record the audio of a program on a Walkman, then put the tape in their PC.
There’s a past we never got where a radio-based internet existed alongside the landlines based one.
Anyone remember when Steve Jobs said in response to adding video support to the iPod that “nobody wants to watch videos on a handheld?” And then just a few months later, iPods got support for images and videos?
and when iPhone 4 was released, Apple also explained it had the perfect size because you could reach any part of the screen with your thumb while holding it in your hand… but also, antennagate. Steve Jobs was full of crap.
The modern 170 g is larger than the older 170 g, what a crock of shit
The older one was a thicc boi
I mean the weight symbol itself is scaled. To make it look like modern phones are nearly back to the old weights they made the last bag as big as the third one instead of the fifth
I have a big screen because I have big thumbs and soft keyboards suck. I still have epic typos though.
By stuff you mean animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles, right?
Just say porn
That’s so obvious I didn’t think it needed to be said. Who doesn’t watch animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles?
Maybe if you’re a kinky pervert you’d watch .mpeg of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions and giant alien tentacles doing missionary in a committed exclusive relationship exclusively for having kids, but nobody is that depraved.
And what if I don’t want to watch “stuff” on my phone? My phone is supposed to be a portable “swiss-army-knife” of digital tools.
They made tablets for the other “stuff”
I think most of the population are on tiktok and that crack, need big screen for maximum experience…
I’ll never forget circa 2005, my friend was at the Montreal jazz festival or something. He told me about it and he said he took a video. He whipped out his phone that was basically a really thick pen. He showed me a video of another friend doing goofy stuff. Even on this tiny phonewith a tiny screen, it was really enough. I miss the time when someone took out his phone and you actually had no idea what to expect.
This graphic is missing the (de)evolution in phones when manufacturers unnecessarily started putting holes and notches in the screens.
#StopPuttingCutoutsInMyFuckingDisplays #BringBackBezels
Some phones go to the extreme, but my small circle camera cutout doesn’t bother me. On a phone, it’s always in the status/notification bar anyways so not a big deal unless you watch a lot of widescreen content.
The biggest deevolution must be audio jacks… the big lie of “we need to remove them so we can make your phones smaller”, just for phones to get thicker. Surely it can fit.
I think the 170 weight on the right is larger than the 170 weight on the left… That’s all I can look at
and the battery life 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
The screen size boom was later. Look at the iphone 5
Apple was slow to adopt larger screens. The Android phones of that time were roughly an inch larger. Apple rarely blazed any trails.
https://www.droid-life.com/2012/12/20/top-10-android-phones-of-2012/
Phones with large screens used to be called phablets, nobody calls them that anymore because they’re all phablets now.
I must have been in a coma for that. When was this?
Phablets were larger than modern screens; in the 8-9" range. You were lucky to fit one in a back pocket.
Phablets were in the 5-7" range, everything above that was definitely a tablet.
No, I saw 4" media devices be called media tablets (hello Archos) whole phones were stuck on 2.5" to 3"
And after that as phone sizes grew, 6-7" screens were called phablets
It’s unfortunate. I’d love a small, privacy respecting phone. Bonus points if it has an eink display.
That’s exactly what the Mudita Kompakt is ! Give it a try it’s great!
Nice recommendation! I’m definitely going to look further into it. It appears to be Google-free, which is wonderful. Thanks for taking the time to share!
Exactly. Apples biggest success has been looking at all the options being tested by other manufacturers, choosing the option they want, then completely eliminating all other options and convincing people in droves that what they are offering is what you want.
To be fair, until about a decade ago, they did generally
stealpick the best of available options.and that it was their idea
There’s an early Corner Gas episode where Brent and Davis get into a competition over who can get the smallest phone, it feels so odd watching it today.
i had a guy visit the office a couple months ago with a smarty phone that was smaller than my flip phone closed-up. i loved it. i decided then that if i ever did ‘have to’ get one–and i could afford it, it would be one of those (a jelly).
Unihertz Jelly Star! I bought one solely to use as an mp3 player, but I got very close to it becoming my regular full-time phone.
I use mine as my daily driver. It’s cute and sufficient. I still have a large smartphone at home for some things, but the Star is what I take into the world.
God, I miss that show. I’m gonna go pirate that shit.
You can watch it on the Internet archive
Thank you so much!
