| ▲ | jazzpush2 5 hours ago |
| I would legitimately purchase a 'smart' phone that's just basically a 15-year old flip phone with maps and a modern battery + software stack. Awaiting the inevitable analog trend to kick back up so there are solid options here. |
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| ▲ | ghshephard 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I've been rocking out a Casio F-91W (Retails new for $23) for about 3 months now - And all the annoyance I had with with my Apple Watch Ultra (16 hour battery, constant annoyance to upgrade, endless and useless notifications) - is gone. The CR2016 battery last 5+ YEARS , replacements are < $2. Watch has everything I ever cared about - Date, Time, Alarms, Light, Stopwatch, water resistance. And, I don't think I've once missed having the big annoying clunker of a watch. |
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| ▲ | Lio 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In the nicest possible way, are you in the wrong thread? This is about a new folding phone not the watches. (I am glad to hear you like your watch though. Casio are classic). | | |
| ▲ | ghshephard 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Correct thread - The Casio F-91W is the "FlipPhone" of watches. Going Retro on all our electronics. Retro Phone, Retro Watch, just walk away from the insane consumerism gadgetitis and find what makes you happy. | | |
| ▲ | Lio 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Aha! OK I can respect that. There's definitely something satisfying about a product that's both cheap enough that it could be disposable but well designed enough that you actually want to keep it forever. I think that Jobs would approve of the Casio F-91W. |
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| ▲ | altmanaltman 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If that's all you cared for, why would you buy an Apple Watch Ultra in the first place? Like a Casio F-91W is a great watch but it is a fundamentally different category than an Apple Watch Ultra even though they're both "watches". It's a bit like saying, " Hey, my calculator has a battery life that lasts years, while my super powerful laptop has a battery life that only lasts 12 hours and has to be updated constantly. Like yeah. | | |
| ▲ | ghshephard 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 100% every word you wrote. I watched the Apple video. Thought it would be great to have this amazing GPS capable watch, with a cellular phone (that, I will confess, I did use three or four times and it was really good) - maps, remote finding of my phone, etc... Honestly - if it wasn't for the incessant nagging me to upgrade, letting me know it's going to upgrade, letting me know it had failed to upgrade, and the never ending useless notification that I kept having to edit/unsubscribe/remove stupid apps that I never installed - I probably wouldn't have switched for a short period of time. What I would have never predicted is how getting rid of all that noise has just made me so much happier. Also - didn't realize how much I hate having to charge my watch every 16 hours. | |
| ▲ | GlacierFox 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think he's highlighting the all the bullshit the Apple Watch comes with has ended up meaningless crap after initially buying in to the Apple Watch hype for this guy. A laptop is a fundamentally different category than a calculator in both utility and capability. |
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| ▲ | zachlatta 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I just got one of these (https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartpho...) that I'm hoping to try and make my weekend phone. It's a small Android phone. It runs WhatsApp / Google Maps. I am going to set it up to forward my calls to it on the weekends. It just arrived, so I'm excited to try it out. |
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| ▲ | xethos 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 12 years, not 15, but there are currently BlackBerry Classic shipping with modern internals. I love mine, though I've flashed LineageOS for Android 16 https://zinwa.com/ |
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| ▲ | a34729t 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Just put your iWatch (with LTE) into a 3D printed case; that gets you most of the way there minus battery life. What I'd love to see is a modern Sidekick. The form factor was basically perfect. |
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| ▲ | MetaWhirledPeas 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Well there are options.
https://commodore.net/callback/ |
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| ▲ | bpev 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Commodore Callback, maybe? |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are plenty Symbian phones around on 2nd hand shops. |
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| ▲ | 4lx87 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Have you considered an Apple Watch Ultra? That way you can send/receive messages, calls, do maps and directions, listen to music, etc. but you can't mindlessly scroll media. |
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| ▲ | alooPotato 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| honestly an apple watch + airpods is basically that. |
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