I miss those days
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I remember reading about that phone and wanting it badly. I ended up getting a Nexus One instead. The Nexus One was its own marvel.
I remember weighing up either getting the iPhone at the time, the Nexus One, and the Nokia N900. It was a close call between the Nexus and the Nokia, mostly because I wanted those sweet sweet Android apps that everyone had, but ultimately I went with the N900 and it changed my life.
I could write my own Python on the train, I learned C and C++ over the course of a long car trip, and even started writing my own Apps on the device itself. Can you imagine that? On-device app development? In any language you want? It was unheard of at the time, and is relatively unheard of even now.
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And this meant that car audio systems with a cassette slot were more future proof than car audio systems with only a cd slot.
Just have a cd player that can play mp3 cds, over 100 songs per cd EZ
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I had one of those too. I don't miss it at all, though, because the sound quality was dogshit. Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
Strange. The quality should be about the best a cassette or aux cable could deliver. They are basically just two electromagnets controlled by the audiosignal.
They are so simple there isn't a lot to do badly.
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I had one of those too. I don't miss it at all, though, because the sound quality was dogshit. Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
You may have missed the protective film on the magnet head. When I had one, it was a night and day difference once I got the protective film off.
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I loved these things. Never understood how they worked (still don’t) but I didn’t care!
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Just have a cd player that can play mp3 cds, over 100 songs per cd EZ
or push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your iPod/Walkman/Smartphone and listen to everything you could imagine.
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I still use one whenever I drive my father's car. It's Bluetooth connected now, which does mean I have to charge it, but since phones removed the headphone jacks... /Shrug
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or push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your iPod/Walkman/Smartphone and listen to everything you could imagine.
Well if your car didn't have one you had to do something else. It's an easy concept to grasp lol
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Those were great. They did a job for everyone that couldn’t afford the latest tech in the car. Now you’re lucky to get a head unit with an Aux plug, much less a CD player.
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Well if your car didn't have one you had to do something else. It's an easy concept to grasp lol
or you could just push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your device, and listen to everything you could imagine?
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or you could just push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your device, and listen to everything you could imagine?
Well if your car didn't have one you had to do something else. It's an easy concept to grasp lol
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It took me moving Country to get out of this situation, as my old Toyota was basically indestructible. Now I have Bluetooth, and the only CD is The Blues Brothers OST, which is stuck in the slot.
There are way way worse CDs to get stuck.
Obligatory Don't worry... It comes around again.
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Well if your car didn't have one you had to do something else. It's an easy concept to grasp lol
or you could just push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your device, and listen to everything you could imagine
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Bluetooth is nice too since you can use the media controls on the steering wheel. In case your mix contains tracks which aren't fire. Ok I see where I made the mistake. Aux is sufficient.
In case your mix contains tracks which aren't fire.
Not a problem I've ever had.
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I loved these things. Never understood how they worked (still don’t) but I didn’t care!
Technology Connections has covered how they work.
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or you could just push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your device, and listen to everything you could imagine
Well if your car didn't have one you had to do something else. It's an easy concept to grasp lol
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The original aux cable! And you never needed to pair shit!
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This somehow makes me feel older than the hip pain does
I think it'e because of how long ago it was. I feel like society hasn't changed very much since ~2012 (last time this was necessary) so it all feels like one long continuous blur. And then you realize that was 13 years ago.
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I had a lil radio emitter that plugged into the iPod so it would replace the local stations !
I loved setting mine to the frequency of a local station and watching the confusion in other cars at a stop light if they were listening to the same frequency. I didn't do it too often because it is pretty annoying though and not too hard to figure out who's doing it.
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Lol my dad had one. I'm Gen Z.
I last saw that in like 2016 (car was like made in like the 2000s). Then the new cars didn't even have the casette thing anymore.
