Look what’s coming to market this fall- for us old farts who miss it

[NorCalBusa]

Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion
$500, uses Android 16 engine, tactical/physical buttons- not screen images of buttons. Can reserve one for $200 and cancel anytime for a full refund. I’ll keep an eye open it, but let a couple hundred thousand of my closest friends go first for a year or so. I suspect my brother ordered this morning, he's been Jonesing for years.

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Alternatively, can get it as a clip-on Clicks Power Keyboard overlay for your existing phone for $100.

 

[auntiebling]

they could have just named it CrackBerry and gotten a lot more press

 

[augustiron]

3310 or gtfo

 

[Abacinator]

Eh, no thanks.

 

[Eldritch]

Certainly interested.

HTC Hermes, fucking LEGEND.

 

[Blankpage]

Bring back the Nextel

 

[NorCalBusa]

First cell I ever bought; 1986. "transportable" in-car, plugs into external antenna and 12v power. Disconnect those and take the base and handset with you- battery inside good for a couple hours if on a lot of calls. All analog voice. I think it was around $1200-1300 when I bought it new.
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[N4teTheGreat]

No glowing trackball? I'm out

 

[sasha]

If it ain't a rotary phone, it ain't real.

 

[ST Guy]

Careful, you just revealed your age.

 

[buellistic]

First cell I ever bought; 1986. "transportable" in-car, plugs into external antenna and 12v power. Disconnect those and take the base and handset with you- battery inside good for a couple hours if on a lot of calls. All analog voice. I think it was around $1200-1300 when I bought it new.
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Mine came with the Car. I still have the Car.

 

[Abacinator]

W124?

 

[buellistic]

W124?

Yup

 

[ThumperX]

I was thinking, I may have written the service order for that.

 

[PaulR]

Bring back the Nextel

Sometimes I miss the old Nextel days — when my boss could BEEEP–CHIRP into my pocket like the literal voice of God.
Didn’t matter if I was on a ladder, in a lift, or hiding behind a stack of drywall…
that phone would erupt at 120 decibels:

“PAUL. WHERE ARE YOU.”

Those were the days.
PaulR

 

[Abacinator]

Yup

Nice! I used to have a super cherry 1987 300D. Sold it to a friend of a friend and she ended up getting t-boned by a drunk driver like a year later

 

[Eldritch]

Sometimes I miss the old Nextel days — when my boss could BEEEP–CHIRP into my pocket like the literal voice of God.
Didn’t matter if I was on a ladder, in a lift, or hiding behind a stack of drywall…
that phone would erupt at 120 decibels:

“PAUL. WHERE ARE YOU.”

Those were the days.
PaulR

HAM Radio works when the cell towers go down.

 

[MC BumSlap]

Sometimes I miss the old Nextel days — when my boss could BEEEP–CHIRP into my pocket like the literal voice of God.
Didn’t matter if I was on a ladder, in a lift, or hiding behind a stack of drywall…
that phone would erupt at 120 decibels:

“PAUL. WHERE ARE YOU.”

Those were the days.
PaulR

I never got around to getting one because at the time, Nextel's coverage wasn't that great.