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I rocked a Samsung Alias 2 for 4 years before I got an iPhone 5. The e-ink keyboard was awesome how it changed when you flipped the screen open to portrait or landscape.

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A Samsung slider. I remember watching the Matrix the first time, and when that phone popped open to reveal the keypad it was mind-blowing. Getting a slider phone a few years later was so satisfying.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The phone in the movie was a Nokia. I believe it was the 7910, if memory serves me correctly.

The spring loaded slide wasn't really a thing. I think one version of the phone had it in the production release, but it was limited to a very small geographical area... I think somewhere in Asia? I forget.

Everywhere else had the phone to some extent, minus the spring loaded sliding action. You just had up push the cover down.

Source: my best friend had one. After... I think, 3? Years of owning it, he was so fed up with its dumb quirks that I think he snapped the slider thing off... Which had the mic in it, so he got a new phone right after that.

EDIT: I was mistaken, it was the Nokia 7110.