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Nokia rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago

The cover cushioned the phone so that anything it hit would have a chance to survive. It’s for the protection of everything else

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

To this day bunker buster bombs consist of cardboard poster tubes filled Nokia phones.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

It had a belt clip, that was the only reason to get one of these. I had one.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And rain, I don't think these had IP ratings

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have too much self respect to clip anything to my belt /s

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You were the king/queen with a Nokia on your belt.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It’s really too bad how much their smartphones suck compared to the old phone days.

Them and Kodak

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They really burned me with their Nokia 9 Pureview. That camera set up was shit and less than 1 year of support?! And I really liked the Nokia 7, with that copper tone around the edges? That was sexy. But after the 9? Never again Nokia.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the cover protects anything that the phone falls on.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It's not for you; it's to make HER feel sexy. You wouldn't understand smh.

(/s, if it's needed)

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone plays up the 3310 as a snake-playing text-messaging mjolnir but I had a Motorola Talkabout that survived being spiked into the pavement once. The battery popped out but I put it back in and made a phone call.

turns out a plastic shell with some give in the structure can take abuse more gracefully than a solid brick made of glass. and aluminum.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I had a Nokia something or another, it was a stick phone from sprint, somebody got pissed and threw it full speed, across the room, into a concrete wall, and it flew into like 7 pieces.

However, when I put those 7 pieces back together, that son of a bitch went on running.

I guess there’s trade offs for everything, but the younger generations will never know how to send a t9 text from your pocket

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I always had flip phones until the QWERTY keyboard era but I really do miss being able to text by feel.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

They made it for that little plastic clip on the back to put it on your belt, not to protect the phone. So it's still useless.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It might be indestructible, but it's not impervious to dirt. Which isn't even an issue for the phone itself, it's just gross.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My parents had one. They aren't the smartest bunch

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