When Phones Were Fun: The QWERTY Phones (2001-2008)

Опубликовано 18 июля 2020, 13:36

In September 2008, Reuters reported that US mobile users had just reached a milestone: for the first time, they had sent more text messages than phone calls. Some were still laboriously tapping them out on numeric keypads with T9 word prediction; others were texting more easily (but also more expensively) on BlackBerries or Palm Treos.

In the wide gulf between these extreme ends of the mobile phone world, manufacturers saw an opportunity. What if they could cram a full keyboard into a phone … without packing in all the complexity and cost of making a true smartphone? The result was an avalanche of QWERTY messaging phones spanning the spectrum from sliders to dual-sliders to crazy clamshells … to a phone with a physical e-ink keyboard!

It was all par for the course, back When Phones Were Fun. Join MrMobile for the latest episode: The Messaging Phones (2001-2008)!


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[ABOUT WHEN PHONES WERE FUN – THE MESSAGING PHONES]

This is the seventh in a series of MrMobile videos exploring the mobile tech world's most vibrant period in design and experimentation. In “When Phones Were Fun,” Michael Fisher re-reviews cellphones from the golden age of mobile, the decade-long span from the turn of the century to approximately 2009.

When Phones Were Fun: Episode 7 features five devices: A Nokia 5510 and Nokia 6820 on loan from friend of the channel Martin; an LG Rumor and Samsung Alias 2 purchased from eBay; and a Pantech Matrix on loan from Avi Greengart (President & Lead Analyst, Techsponential). No company paid a fee or otherwise offered compensation in exchange for this coverage, nor did any company preview or approve this content before publication.


[TIME CODES]

0:00 Welcome Back To 2008

01:05 Nokia 5510

02:33 Nokia 6820

03:44 LG Rumor

05:41 Pantech Matrix

06:52 Samsung Alias 2


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US mobile phone users text more than they talk [Reuters]:
reuters.com/article/wireless-t...

The Coolest Phone I Ever Owned [JerryRigEverything]:
youtube.com/watch?v=G1eON2ROmR...

Pantech Duo C810 [PhoneScoop]:
phonescoop.com/phones/phone.ph...

Review: LG Rumor [PhoneScoop]:
phonescoop.com/articles/articl...

Review: Samsung Alias 2 [PhoneScoop]:
phonescoop.com/articles/articl...

How Facebook Beats MySpace [The Guardian]:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/...

How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into The Web's Hottest Platform [Wired]:
wired.com/2007/09/ff-facebook


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