• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

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

NorCalBusa

Member #294
Joined
Apr 28, 2002
Location
.
Moto(s)
.
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.

1775060693900.jpg


Prototype reviewed here; Meet the $499 Clicks Communicator, A BlackBerry-Style ... TechGuySmartBuy: https://techguysmartbuy.com › The Latest

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

HTC Hermes, fucking LEGEND.
 
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.
(image scrapped off the web)
1775321070914.png
 
Last edited:
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.
(image scrapped off the web)
View attachment 592245m
Mine came with the Car. I still have the Car.
 

Attachments

  • 20260409_153548.jpg
    20260409_153548.jpg
    2.1 MB · Views: 19
I was thinking, I may have written the service order for that.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Back
Top