Spyke
lemmy.world

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

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

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feddit.nl

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

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lunarulreply
lemmy.world

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

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madjoreply
feddit.nl

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

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kbin.earth

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

Them and Kodak

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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.

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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.

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kbin.earth

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

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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.

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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.

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