Show threadIanFeb 5

All those phones still work and have batteries that last weeks not hours.
None of them has ever disclosed my location to Faecbook, although the original #Luddyphone used to do Twitter by SMS. (Who remembers texting 86444?)

Now the stubby T39 is my burner phone.
The W350i is alarms, egg timing and MP3s of BBC radio clips like Jon Holmes calling Mark Goodier a c**t on air.
The #Fairphone2 was my main phone until August; now it has no 3/4G network but runs #Qobuz into my hifi (headphone jack FTW).

IanFeb 5

- You boy! What day is it today?
- Why, it is the 17th birthday of Ian's #Luddyphone, sir!
- Then hie thee to the kitchen table and take a pic of all Ian's classic mobile phones.
- But with what, sir?
- Why, with his actually modern #Fairphone6, boy.

So yeah, with apologies to Charles Dickens and Alastair Sim, today I mark 17 years of active(ish) service by my not even oldest working mobile: a beautiful and oh so titchy Sony Ericsson W350i.

Show threadIanOct 29
@axbom
As a #Luddyphone loyalist, I might add mapping.
Offline navigation to a known address is not difficult, but locating another person who is utterly reliant on their mobile and GPS – and therefore unused to old-school navigation – can be tricky.
I spent 45 minutes tracking down pals in Köpenhamn who were, "in a Chinese restaurant… white front with a big red neon sign… near some roadworks."
IanFeb 5, 2025
As tradition dictates every Feb 5th: penblwydd hapus to my beautiful #Luddyphone, a 2009 Sony Ericsson W350i. 16 years old today!
Mainly a faithful alarm clock now. But it went on an adventure to London recently to be the purveyor of choons for my 50th.
The SIM was disabled by the phone network in 2021, and this photo records the last call it ever made, to its own elder brother.
Oh, and that 2001 Ericsson T39? Still runs just fine. I use it every day as my work phone.
#ClassicPhone #KeepClub