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It's time for a tech gadget show and tell.
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Hi there, I'm Roberto. Hope you guys are doing well.
A user asked me this question on Instagram. Yes, I have an Instagram.
Link in the doobly-doo below the Like button along with the links to my Twitter and Google+
pages. What do I do with my old electronics?
Well, depending on their condition I might sell then, donate them or recycle them.
But when it comes to mobile phones there might be a fourth option.
The ones that I have really liked now form part of my mobile phone hall of fame.
Let's start with this phone. This is a Nokia 8260.
This wasn't my first mobile phone but it was the first one I really liked.
It was the first phone I had where I could set ringtones for individual contacts.
I didn't have to look at the screen when someone important was calling.
Plus, it was so small that it fit perfectly in a shirt pocket.
Try that with one of the latest smartphones; I dare you.
Please don't! And now to think that if I were to charge
this and power it on, it would be just a paperweight. This was a phone for analog and TDMA networks.
And yes, I know the correct term is Digital AMPS but I don't care; nobody called it like
that. And both of those network types are extinct.
♪ Side note ♪ At one time I had the Nokia 3360, which is
a cousin of the now famous Nokia 3310. Just as indestructible, and if I had known
that phone was going to become an Internet meme, I probably would have hold on to mine.
That, or if it had the original Snake game. I wasn't a big fan of Snake 2.
Now, the SonyEricsson T300 was my first color screen phone and also my first cameraphone.
Where's the camera? Yeah, back then you had to attach the camera;
it was an external accessory. It was a crappy camera; it didn't even have
VGA resolution. I still have some pictures I took with it.
Just take a look. But yea, camera aside, it was a good phone.
It also had MIDI ringtones and I had a MIDI keyboard back then so this was the first phone
where I could use my own ringtones. Here is my first clamshell phone, and I'm
making the distinction between clamshell and flip phone because I did have a true flip
phone. But this phone is a lesson on why you should
not just go with the crowd and make yourself opinions based on what you read on the Internet
without trying things out for yourself. The Internet was crazy about how crappy the
Motorola T720 was and I have to say, I used this phone for more than a year and it was
really good. Okay, the quality of the ringtones was total
crap but that aside, it did the job and did it well.
Now, here is the Audiovox SMT 5600. A lot of people around the world knew it as
the Orange SPV 600 or something like that. And to think that this was made by HTC!
This wasn't my first smartphone but it was the first one I actually enjoyed.
Yeah, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, that's what this thing runs.
Here is the Samsung Epix, my last Windows Mobile smartphone.
I loved this phone. I loved the keyboard, I loved the trackpad,
it was comfortable as a phone. It ran Windows Mobile 6.1 and everything was
good until Samsung upgraded it to Windows Mobile 6.5.
[sigh] Yeah, you think the Windows 8 Metro screen
is annoying? Okay it is, but this was much worse.
Yeah, the honeycomb Start menu, not being able to drag to select because Microsoft had
to copy what the iPhone was doing for scrolling and a few other annoyances really downgraded
the user experience. And this is why to this date I don't care
about not having the latest and greatest Android version out there.
I rather have a stable OS that works for me than have the latest one with new bugs and
questionable functionality downgrades. And the last phone in my hall of fame: a BlackBerry
Bold 9700. [gasp]
Yes, a BlackBerry. I truly love this form factor and I really
wish more manufacturers made phones that are actually worth something, with this form factor
but that isn't happening anymore. But yeah, this is my last BlackBerry and sorry
for those guys but I'm not interested in trying the Q10.
They waited way too long to release that phone and it's just not worth it anymore.
And that's what makes up my mobile phone Hall of Fame, although my current smartphone is
going to be joining that group when it retires. But what about you?
Do you have your own Hall of Fame for your phones or other tech gadgets?
Please let me know below. This would've been a good time for video responses,
if YouTube didn't kill them, as I definitely would love to see some of your Hall of Fame.
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