This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone
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I used to code ringtones into peoples phones in exchange for cigarettes.
Last Resort by Papa Roach was most popular followed by Better Off Alone by DJ Sammy, because they both sounded killer in twangy Nokia synth.
Better Off Alone was by Alice Deejay.
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You were also able to type out a message and send it using a single hand, you only needed to recharge the phone once a week, and it didn't shatter like an icicle if you so much as sneezed at it, it was cheap and it didn't spy on you. Smart phones is the dumbest thing that happened to humanity.
Once a week? Those things could go pretty much forever on a single charge so long as you weren't making calls, even with batteries that had a tiny fraction of modern capacity due to their simple hardware.
Nowadays even a completely idle smartphone on extreme power saving mode is lucky to last a couple of days, especially if you don't/can't disable the vendor-mandated bloatware that periodically wakes it up to phone home. When used regularly, it's not uncommon for a phone to drain within a single day.
Sometimes I miss the simple, rugged designs - right up until I remember how much better smartphones are at literally everything else. Still wish companies would get the memo and focus on bigger batteries rather than smaller phones, though.
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I remember paying 3$ for a ringtone
I remember reading sketchy guides on how to add custom ringtones without needing to pay for the privilege. Arbitrary restrictions on user folder access predate Android.
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I remember paying 3$ for a ringtone
I remember ringback tones. When you wanted to inflict your music tastes on literally anyone who called you.
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I'm tired of the smart phones and their addictive games and whistles, just give me a phone that only does call not that "texting" BS and only one ring you cannot change !
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Snake > Snake 2
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I'm tired of the smart phones and their addictive games and whistles, just give me a phone that only does call not that "texting" BS and only one ring you cannot change !
Stuff like that exist more or less i don't know if there is a phone that can't even send SMS but there are phones with e-ink displays only doing calls sms and caleder.
You could also install a launcher on any android device that mimiks this
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Everyone Nokia user knows that Space Impact was a better game than Snake
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Better Off Alone was by Alice Deejay.
Shit why am I thinking DJ Sammy? Old man moment
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I remember paying 3$ for a ringtone
Bring-ding-ding-ding
Bring-ding-ding-ding
Baaa-ba-ba-Bowaaaaar
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I still have one of these somewhere. It didn’t break but the charger did
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Everyone Nokia user knows that Space Impact was a better game than Snake
There were at least two different versions of it. The one where the second and third level are in the space ship (not on some sort of a bouncy rover thing) is the jam
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I remember paying 3$ for a ringtone
I remember making my own ringtone on the Nokia
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I remember reading sketchy guides on how to add custom ringtones without needing to pay for the privilege. Arbitrary restrictions on user folder access predate Android.
I remember putting .jar (I think) games on my flip phone, when I discovered that it was like a whole new world. Sd card loaded with as many games I could find haha
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Everyone Nokia user knows that Space Impact was a better game than Snake
Later on I got a phone with Bounce, now that was the tits
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And you could use the IR blaster to play multiplayer games.
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The fucking battery is almost empty after just three days! Just because I played Snake every break.
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Later on I got a phone with Bounce, now that was the tits
Snake > Space Impact > Bounce
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Still have a core memory of sitting in the toilet, a long time after having finished my business, still playing snake and beating my highest score by a lot!
