Android is my favorite currently, but when I was growing up it was Symbian, comparing it to java it was miles ahead with way more advanced capabilities!
Damn this makes me feel old. I’m from before phones had OS.
hahaha
Palm OS, hands down.
never heard of it, very interesting!
They had some really impressive devices in the early 2000s. You had to dock it to your PC and sync all your stuff to it, kinda like an iPod but for emails and documents. Some of them even supported external keyboards!
oh wow this seems so cool!
Growing up? Oh no I’m old!
hahaha
rotary
@schizanon same :)
nice!
I was all over Dialtone 1.0. That was rad, really responsive. Pick that bad boy off the wall and it was ready to go! Limited feature set tho 😆
You make me feel so old, dude. My first handheld device was a Pocket PC in 2000, and I was already grown up by then.
my first handheld was the classic gameboy haha
Oh lol, well if that counts, then mine too!! I was thinking general-purpose device comparable to a modern smartphone.
thats so cool… it ate so many batteries though and didnt even have backlight haha still love it, and especially the opening nintendo sound
My favorite music was the end-credits music of SuperMarioLand. I would play through the whole game just to hear it, and then keep it going on infinite loop until it ran out of battery.
i loved its for sure too! thats cute hahah
Palm OS was ahead of its time as well. It’s a shame that they couldn’t adapt fast enough to keep their relevance.
Though I grew up in the age of feature phones. The Razor was all the rage. Man, it was so thin.
i am so surprised i have never heard of it, but i keep seeing it in this thread
Rotary. It was a well aged OS at the time with its own issues, but fun to use.
yeah hahaha so slow to dial
Symbian! Way ahead of its time, and it could’ve still been with us if Nokia had been awake and aware in 2007. Unfortunately they were lead by an idiot. You could do most things that you do these days on Android and iOS. I installed Doom, Carmageddon, and a bunch of apps, including emulators. This was in 2003. I still have a Nokia 6600 and an E61 laying around.
yeah i was so surprised that symbian disappeared. but then i saw what iphone had to offer and agreed. still symbian had a lot better games and graphics than the first iphone
…and this is the moment I realize I’m old
(edit) and of course I had to figure it out anyways. gotta love wikipedia. probably this one: standard domestic phone 1950-1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone I remember dialing it actually hurt my finger.
hahaha that is really funny! i remember it being our first phone and it was so slow to use a number and wait. its funny to me now though
My phone OS was a landline, with the only app being a rotary dial.
that was our first too!
UIQ 3 based on Symbian. Mostly used by Sony Ericsson’s PDAs during 00’s. What a system that was. Supporting touch, Java apps and more. I had it on SE G900. Too bad that era did not last longer, it was soon before Android hit first models of HTC and Google G1.
symbian era was my favorite era! especially since i could add all kinds of ngage games in my card without having an ngage, so cool
Don’t hate on me, but I was a big fan of windows fan… I still can’t get anything to come close to replacing the friends hub that allowed you to see contacts friends feeds in one app.
that sounds so cool!
My first was Symbian but my favourite will always be Windows phone. I still run square home launcher to get that familiar tile screen on my pixel 6 pro
WebOS was a beautiful OS, but the pebble was just too underpowered to use it.
oh wow i never heard of it. what was the best part about WebOS?
I’ve always been an android person, starting with cyanogenmod back in the day and now lineage, as well as plenty of xda forum unofficial aosp/cyanogen/lineage builds when I had phones that didn’t have great official support. I dabbled with pureos and postmarketos but the app ecosystem is still developing for mobile linux and things like hibernation, modem sleep, and screen off notifications are a bit rocky.
Hopefully someday I’ll be able to use an OS on my phone where I’m not blocked from apps because “we detected you’re rooted even though you’re not, no healthcare app for you” or “no contactless payment unless you’re on a stock rom”
it is so sad :/
