/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Dear /jp/,

Do you remember a simpler time when phones were phones? Specifically, I loved the Japanese idea of phones: a thin, clamshell folding design that had "some" multimedia and did a little 3G when I needed it.

Where the fuck did all the thin, clamshell folding designs go? All I see now are peices of touchscreen smartphone garbage.

Pic related, it's my beloved Samsung A717. I also have the Japanese version of this phone SoftBank 706SC when I lived in Japan circa 2006.

Also, post your phone ITT

[Anonymous No.]

I don't have a phone.

[Anonymous No.]

Sorry, I'm getting this today.
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_x10_mini-3125.php

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ - phone design discussion

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298644
>/jp/ - Japanese phone design discussion
fix'd

[Anonymous No.]

My phone's been lying around with dead batteries for months now. Not like I have anyone to call, or anyone to call me, for that matter.

[Anonymous No.]

>Do you remember a simpler time when phones were phones?
I sure do.
>Specifically, I loved the Japanese idea of phones: a thin, clamshell folding design that had "some" multimedia and did a little 3G when I needed it.
Whoa, all this talk about phones being phones and your fond memories are of fucking iPhones without the touchscreen and i in the Phone? What a fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298658
Best kind of phone man.

[Anonymous No.]

Make a DS phone

[proREMIRIAt Elite Force Commander !rSDMROXTB. No.]

clamshell phones... not so good.

[Anonymous No.]

I have a Samsung t219, which is probably even more minimalist than yours. I only use it for talking to my family every month or so, so it gets the job done.

[Anonymous No.]

Samsung + SoftBank = Korean crap.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298749
At the time, this phone's (Japanese version) was the most reasonable price for the thinnest phone.

Plus, DoCoMo's expensive. I'm not a long term customer's who also orders landlines, and fiber and gets massive discounts from them.

[Anonymous No.]

[GreenTrashcan !6mvmNVD6E6 No.]

No wonder I said I couldn't tell the difference between /jp/ and /r9k/. This same exact fucking thread is in there.

OP confirmed for Samsung salesman.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298827
it's on /int/ as well. I guess it's just a flamebait.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298749
Better than japanese crap

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298795
Man, I had one of those brick handset style phones for years. Thing was indestructible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298848
ニダー~

[Anonymous No.]

Nokia Master Race
n900

[Anonymous No.]

I have a motorola V3.
It's the best thing ever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298848

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298881
>Ham-fisted 2ch-style riposte

Either you provide a reasonable counterargument or you get the fuck out. Your choice.

[Anonymous No.]

I just miss when phone had model numbers, not these fucking names.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298887
His counter argument is, that >>5298848 is a dirty Korean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298887
Shut up, Corean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298888
And they have stupid names like Awesome. If my phone is going to have a name I want it to be something like Tirpitz.

[Anonymous No.]

I still use my 5110i.
Well I'm not using it actually since no one contacts me.

[Anonymous No.]

Sold my cell months ago. I made a cool 60 dollars from the sale, which I promptly spent on tea and tea accessories. Life hasn't been the same since.

[Anonymous No.]

I use a HTC Sapphire running Eclair, but my backup phone is.... a SE T630. Yep. Friggin bullet proof, one week of standby.

Used to know guys that changed their phones every 6 months. Kinda retarded.

Post your phone history.

I went... Nokia 5190 > Motorola StarTac > Samsung (some CDMA flip phone, can't remember, had GPRS though, awesum at the time lol) > SE T610 > SE T630 > Nokia N95-4 > HTC Sapphire. Probably missing a few actually.

[Anonymous No.]

My best friend for years

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299120
It's your only friend too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299123
;_;

[Anonymous No.]

My phone is still a phone. Phones that are not phones are for normalfags.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know what kind of phone I have. It doesn't say anything. All I know is it's an LG.

[Marisa Kirisame !MARiSADA4A No.]

Old phone

[Marisa Kirisame !MARiSADA4A No.]

New phone

[Anonymous No.]

Also this reminds me of the one time when I was out and had to call someone and spent ten minutes going through my contact list trying to figure out how to call someone then trying to memorize their number and put it in manually before remembering that you have to hit the green button to call someone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299148
Where'd you get that phonestrap and those cases?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299148
Wow, you're a true fan of Marisa.

I wouldn't dare to carry something like that.

[Marisa Kirisame !MARiSADA4A No.]

>>5299155
Phone strap came with my Kotobukiya Marisa figure (The one that rides the light up star), and the "cases" are just molded stickers that you can make from one of those phone accessory sites. You upload a pic, center it how you want it, and then they print it out for you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299166
I wouldn't dare to carry 5.7 around.

[Marisa Kirisame !MARiSADA4A No.]

>>5299202
uncropped image of
>>5299148

[Anonymous No.]

i don't have a cell phone because i truly am a loser with no friends

i remember one time this girl asked me for my cell phone number and when i said "i don't have one" she thought that was weird ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299237
Is it weird, what if you want to call for a pizza while you're on your way home or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299237
You could have told her "It is broken right now, but I am getting another one next month" or something like that, or if you don't want to keep in touch with her, you could have only said "It's broken", so you wouldn't look weird.

[Amazo-tan !04wRLcX5eU No.]

Why is there such spite for new touch screen phones?

Oh... Because they're American

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299237
you dont have parents either? or do you live with them?

[Anonymous No.]

OP just wanted to show off his phone.
>>>/g/10981460

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>5298636
While I wanted a clamshell phone the most, the fact that my Nokia 5800XM had pretty much everything I wanted in a phone i went for that.

And now I kind of support the idea of multifunction phones. I'd love the see the PSP2 be a phone and console in one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299385
I don't. I have a phone for phone things already. I don't need a gaming system to do the same things.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>5299394
Yes but with a PSP2 you don't have to change the phone for like ages. You play games on it and it' a phone. No need for a new phone. Plus it would get updated through it whole lifetime.

[Anonymous No.]

I have some shitty sony ericsson walkman phone, which was hand-me-downed from my dad after he got an iPhone.

It looks so ugly, like a brick or something.
It's not like I use it a lot though.

[Scottish !wEEAb008rc No.]

I used to have a clamshell, was fine - got broken alas and I bought an LG cookie, liking it alot.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh no fuck you you're not about to make me feel bad for not having a cell phone too

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299467
Disgusting normalfag, I bet you text during class too.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

I have a phone.

I have anime as my background picture.

And Lil Wayne as my ringtone.

I have 38 different phone numbers in it, all girls I know.

I use it to watch anime on my way home from school on the train.

The phone is Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299474
I don't have a cell phone

[Anonymous No.]

I have this fucker right here. Cheap chinese ripoff, but it does what I need.

[:3~ !RAKiSUtaAA No.]

I don't know how to take a picture of my phone with my phone so I'll just post a picture I found on google.

[Anonymous No.]

>Do you remember a simpler time when phones were phones?

Yes, honestly. However, I don't see anyone else on this thread remembering it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299989
just use a mirror, holy shit

[Anonymous No.]

i don't have a phone, because i have nobody to call and i hate when someone call me at my house, but yeah i hate all those multimedia bullshit, you want good game ? go buy a computer or a console game, you want more music ? go buy a mp3 player, want to watch movie ? go buy a DVD etc
you have everything except it's shit

[Anonymous No.]

I use my mobile phone as an alarm clock now. It's really fucking loud too.

[『五角场 ～之～ 无名氏』 No.]

I remember when dialing the phone number meant literally dialing the phone number

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

i remember when people wrote letters instead

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299269
Not all of them are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300068
Fucking exactly.

If your memories of phones are "clamshell with some multimedia and a little 3G", then you don't fucking remember when phones were phones. You're only one generation behind the current phones.

[Anonymous No.]

I remember when phones were rotary dials.
Also anyone still remember pagers?

[Anonymous No.]

Oh man, I loved rotary dials. Making a call was so invigorating.

[Anonymous No.]

ctrl+f 3310
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y'all niggas don't know shit about good phones. /jp/, I am disappoint.

[Anonymous No.]

Remember when you had to ask an operator to direct your calls? Those were the times.

[Anonymous No.]

tracfone
pull-out antenna
pay as you go

suck it bitches

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300383

Never had a pager but fuck yeah, rotary dials. Also those curly cables, everything is wireless nowadays. That brings back some memories...

[Anonymous No.]

Phones with screens? Fuck that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300395
its a good phone but nothing else
so I wouldnt do much with it

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300404 curly cables
I know I'm not the only one here who wrapped myself up in them (on purpose, obviously)

[Anonymous No.]

I always liked having brick phones. Aside from the fact that you could rarely butt dial by accident, I liked the fact that I had everything there and ready. In terms of multimedia it has...a 2.1 megapixel camera and that's it. Voice quality is fucking great, and unlike the iPhone or most smartphones, my reception is fucking beastly. It does its job and nothing more. I keep it in great condition too. Had it for 7 years and it barely has any scratches on it.

I went to a party recently with a girl and she wanted to know how her hair looked, so I took a picture of her and showed it to her, bitch was pissed off that she pressed the tiny as screen and it didn't do nothing, couldn't use the buttons worth a shit, so she insulted my phone. As soon as we got to the party I left her there and came back home alone, I don't give a fuck who she sucked off to get a ride back with.

[Anonymous No.]

Bill, is that you?

[『五角场 ～之～ 无名氏』 No.]

>>5300443
butt dial?
you do not lock your keypad....?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300469
I wonder more about how he dials a number with his butt...
Do you keep it in your back pocket?

[Anonymous No.]

I just took this photo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300523
whats the circle button for?

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>5300544
That's a zero

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300469
>>5300489

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300548
I hated that cartoon.

[『五角场 ～之～ 无名氏』 No.]

>>5300544
flash or redial
probably flash

[Anonymous No.]

My palm pre is nice. I don't have an iphone because I'm not a faggot. Also I don't see a point in complaining about phone advancement. It's not like adding gimmicks is going to effect your phone call

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300548
I lol'd

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300551
Same here

[Anonymous No.]

This is a real phone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300548

Fuck, that redguy always gave me a boner when I was a kid. It was always akward hiding it from my brother when we watched the show together. Not sure what it was but everything he did just seemed so.. sexual.Hazy memories.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300548
Oh you
>>5300489
>>5300469
Nah my phone is locked, in order to unlock it you have to press the green call button and the asterisk symbol one after another. It happens rarely, but if I keep my phone in my ass pocket and shift around while sitting down on the couch, I can potentially unlock it. That said I typically keep it in my front pockets, and if I have something else that's smaller than the actually phone (mp3 player, headphones) those can rarely press the green call button and asterisk unlocking my phone.

It happens VERY VERY RARELY though, but it still happens.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/-kun, denwa.

[Anonymous No.]

I've had this for a few years. It's incredibly sleek, thin and small. Low on features, it's just a nice basic phone.

[Anonymous No.]

Southern Linc (Alabamafag here) Motorola i1

Damn good phone.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't think most of /jp/ cares what phone they have, because they don't have anyone to call.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301201
I browse /jp/ at work when I have nothing to do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301217
>/jp/
>work

The fuck am I reading?

[Sudo !nAoZUmIAfk No.]

I have no use for a phone, since I have no friends and don't go out.

[Anonymous No.]

Shouldn't this belong in /g/?

[Anonymous No.]

Well my phone is still just a phone, I didn't get a phone until I was in my 20s and this is the second phone I've ever had since my first one flew out of my pocket and got ran over by a truck.

[Anonymous No.]

>So uhmm....What are you wearing?

[Anonymous No.]

I remember when phones were phones. I have a 1950s phone for my desk phone whose handset is sturdy and heavy enough to break a skull with. As for cell, I first got a brick six or so years back, and haven't had a new cell since. My brothers are pushing me to get a new phone, but my two criteria of blacklist/whitelist/this-action-for-that-number function and a sturdy design have yet to be met.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5300607
Damn, I had the same exact phone, and it was awesome. I wish I didn't fall on it and break both screens. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

I loved clamshells back then but now I prefer small phones that don't weigh much and can fit on your pocket without sticking out like a fucking cinder block.

Don't really care about any functions either, mp3 player is nice though. What I have, probably going to change by the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.]

I had a touch screen phone for a while with a slide out qwerty keyboard, but it made me rage so hard.

There was NO button (as in a hard, non-software button) to PICK UP A CALL OR HANG UP. This meant you had to unlock the touch screen and then precisely press "answer" or "end call" - which was no small feat considering the touch screen was laughably inaccurate. It was a goddamned disaster, I forget what brand it even was but I took it back after it ghost dialed my friend in Italy and ended up costing me a shitload in "international calls."

I traded it in for an LG Decoy. Still a meh sort of phone, but far less rage inducing than that other piece of fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

I have a cellphone, Verizon LG circa 2006-2008.

It does accept and send text messages, but the plan isn't good (that was intentional).

It does have a browser, but I didn't want the plan that connects to the Internet.

It has no "apps" nor does it have any fancy backgrounds, complicated custom ringtones, or sensitive touchscreen. I think the firmware needs updating, while I'm at it.

It has a substandard camera, but that does work.

It does just what a cellphone needs to do. I use it to make phone calls.

[Anonymous No.]

This. It's clearly made for older people because the menus are simple and the font is fucking huge. I prefer it to all other types, though. It cost less than an average fig and the battery needs to be recharged only once every two weeks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301253
What model is that?

[NukuAnon !!1kill4CULiC No.]

I got the first Samsung Instinct. I used to have an old Samsung clamshell design(I forgot the name) I have Flandre as a background and U.N. owen was her as a ring tone.

[Anonymous No.]

my good old motorola razor v3i. I bought a used one three years ago, and it is still working. No touchscreen or shit like this, just a big screen and a huge keypad

[Anonymous No.]

I remember when cellphones were still in black and white.

And all of a sudden they get color and shit started to hit the fan with ringtones and all that useless shit.

[Anonymous No.]

I think mine was something like... Nokia 6600 fold, purple version. Not sure, though.
Has mp3-player, camera, internet access and something unimportant I forgot.
Stuff no-one cares about; my wallpaper is of Yuyuko while the ringtone is Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.nttdocomo.com/features/newseries/index.html#prime

;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>5298636
Oh my god, that was my last handy. It's fucking awesome! Unfortunately it broke.

[Anonymous No.]

Master Spark is my ringtone. Don't care about anything else. Not as if anyone calls me...

[Anonymous No.]

Handset details are available in Japanese only.

[Anonymous ‮（≖‿≖ ） ‪‪‪‬ ‪‬ ‭‬ !Jones4ZrPA No.]

Kyon-kun, denwa

[Anonymous No.]

>>5299455
can anyone post the Chen picture thats in the phone's background?

[Anonymous No.]

This phone, this fucking phone.
Best brick i ever had ;_;.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301660
Reported for child porn Jones. Better clean it up in the archive later or the police will knock your door soon.

[proREMIRIAt Elite Force Commander !rSDMROXTB. No.]

>>5301710
oh fuck yes, those are indestructible!

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301710
oh, we used it in class as a football ball

[Anonymous No.]

Posting from my droid. B)

[(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ BOOF ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) !AWEsomEEEE!!g4pQz5RFuPl No.]

iPhone 3gs 32gig

getting the 4g next month on verizon because AT&T sucks and it's suppsed to be a duel core

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301710
Nokia bricks were truly the best.

I went into a pool with one on accident once and it still worked fine once it dried off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301901
>duel core
Holy shit your cores fight each other

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>5301901
you're a faggot

[(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ BOOF ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) !AWEsomEEEE!!g4pQz5RFuPl No.]

>>5301949
yes they do.

I punched in "daul" and the phone changed it to duel. Gotta love how good this spellcheck works

[Anonymous No.]

>>5301977
>daul

[Anonymous No.]

Motorola C117. Piece of shit's so old that when six guys wanted to rob me on a train at one time, they didn't want it! That's why I love it.

>>5298636
Consequently, I understand your anger. I like using my phone for making calls, and I'll play Poop Crap "games" on a PC, thank you kindly. (¯ω¯)

[Anonymous No.]

I don't own a cellphone..
The only people I'd need to contact can reach me through IMs...