It looks a lot older than it is.
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tbh it does look like 1990-2005 era tech to me
Looks loke my dad's old windows phone back in 2005.
2010 had many 2001 vibes still left over
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It will be revived but with biometric sensors to capture more personal data, all of which is fed into a LLM pretending to be a healthcare provider.
"Your blood pressure is high, here's a list of lifestyle interventions, or upgrade to a premium account for access to a healthy recipe database or go Platinum for access to our concierge prescription delivery service. Meanwhile here's an ad for dick pills."
Capitalism truly ruins everything it touches
They already have these little thumbtack devices that stab into your arm and give you annoying warnings over bluetooth that are only somewhat accurate
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I want actual buttons on more devices. Touchscreen shit is a liability and outright dangerous in some situations, but nooooo, Holy Steve Jobs must be emulated forevermore. 
Me trying to pull up the bus schedule on my phone, but my fingers are too cold to register on the screen.
Me trying to pull up the bus schedule on my phone, but my fingers are too cold to register on the screen.
Too cold, too damp... winter in my new location made phones really frustrating.
And for what? Why must it be like this, besides a paradoxical "innovation" laziness?
Because designing an interface is hard and it's easier to just not do it
i have a car with a touch screen for the radio and it is by far the worst most backwards thing i can imagine putting in a vehicle that can kill people.
ZYBERTRUKKK does that for pretty much everything but that silly le space age impractical yoke 
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in '09 I had this slide out physical QWERTY keyboard phone. like you turned the phone on its side and split the phone like you were splitting a deck of cards in half.
kinda like this one. https://i0.wp.com/www.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/Samsung-Stratosphere-keyboard1.jpg
shit was actually badass for browsing and texting. afk brb fuk u 2 lol l8r
I had one of those too and I miss it every day
I'm surprised there isn't a market for a case with built-in slideout keyboard, I'd hate to have to choose between physical keyboard and rest-of-phone-good.
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LG Rumor / Rumor 2
LG enV
T-Mobile Sidekick
Yeah I loved that shit my thumbs suck at virtual keyboards
Those ruled. Fucking hate touch screens
My first smartphone was a second-hand Motorola Droid A855 that I got in like 2012 (I think it was about 2-3 years old by the time I got it). That keyboard was great and I hated how smartphones were slowly moving away from it.
My gf in college had this phone lol
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fallout in real
My first thoughts as well. A functional IRL PIP Boy.
We used to maintain those at my last job, they are still used in big grocery chains for inventory purposes
God I wish I used this for inventory/ordering purposes instead of a shitty samsung tablet with a dodgy half baked web app
Plus some models have ring scanners : 
which makes your job cooler than it is
A few years ago the grocery I worked for got rid of their inventory scan guns that ran on Windows CE and used TinyTERM. They were rugged as shit and it was impossible to lose your progress if you took the scanner into a WiFi dead zone somewhere in the bowels of the stockroom. Then at some point they switched to these shitty Android-based ones where everything is done on a web browser. You needed to be extra cautious to make sure it was actually communicating with the WiFi and remote server, or else whatever you're scanning would not get counted/ordered.
I could open a vault door with onna these things
honestly id take this shit even with a touch screen, just wrap my arm in that shit
Pip-Boy irl
We used to use these at work. They suck to type on. We upgraded to the touchscreen smartphone types, and they’re much better.
Everybody gangsta until you gotta unclog the toilet
sorry i had to log in to confirm - are you not using plungers? are you not using plungers every time that the toilet is clogged? 
100% of the time?
Look at Mr Fancy Plunger Pants over here. Got money and room for a dedicated toilet unblocking majigger. Probably take big poops just so you can satisfiedly unblock the pooper again without using your hands.
Some of us just get our hand in there and get the job done, when my toilet blocked regularly I just used a bin bag as arm protection 'cause it's what we had. Can't all live in a big plunger castle like yerself yer majesty.
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We still use these at UPS
Lmao thats what these are fedex uses them too
i imagine many factory workers are still living this cool techno timeline. lucky them!
Meh. With my phone I can type with one hand while my other arm does whatever.
what am i supposed to type with my neuralink
Things like this would make your arm all sweaty and youll end up having weird tan lines if you decided to touch grass.
I want one
Oh crap. They used those at Amazon warehouses. Management opted instead for the gun-type scanners.
I'm going to be a retvrn guy but instead of a statue my profile picture is going to be this thing.
MEGA MAN STAR FORCE REFERENCE 
The Transer (heh) [...] is a mobile terminal that appears in Mega Man Star Force as an evolution of the PErsonal Terminal from the Mega Man Battle Network series. Most people wear their Transers on their arms[, but it can also be detached from the wriststrap].
The Transer is just a wearable Nintendo DS in form, because that's the platform the game is on, and instead of apps, you insert different physical cards, as the battle system has card game elements. Gimmick-based worldbuilding.
Coincidentally, it was released in Japan in December of 2006.
Jobs lapped these dorks.
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