TechDog-Marty
Cleaning out a drawer at work, found my old CDMA Windows phone. I miss this form factor with slide out keyboard and physical switches for things like camera. Also has the scroll click wheel like the blackberries had. Shocked it still worked (needed to be plugged in). Still has the pen.
HTC PPC6800 #windows #cdma #ppc6800
Jan 29, 2024 at 10:22pmWeb
Show threadJacketJan 29, 2024
@techdog CDMA? I guess it can't get signal anymore. Makes me remember that I should try to find an n-gage.
Show threadTechDog-MartyJan 29, 2024
@jacket yeah connecting it to wifi seems an impossible task, Windows phone software was not super intuitive
Show threadJacketJan 30, 2024
@techdog I would no come back to those phone cause today they are just more usable but there was something about those phone that was more exiting. They all had different looks and sometimes gimmicks. Today, the only reason I prefer a phone over an other that I can easily flash a privacy focus is in it.
Show threadTechDog-MartyJan 30, 2024
@jacket I too prefer unlocked phones that I can adjust or put a different variant of OS on it. But more I need a phone with a headset jack and a battery that lasts all damn day, and I prefer the back or side fingerprint reader. The front ones seem to be just inconsistent as hell. I'm still on a pixel 2xl, thinking my next handset will be the 5a because it's the last pixel with headphone jack and rear FP reader. I switch headphones between this and work phone a lot and BT SUCKS for rapid switch.
Show threadJacketJan 30, 2024
@techdog Yeah. I get it. I am OK with Bluetooth but I prefer having the jack option too. You could get it from the USBC tho so it's not completely lost. Isn't the pixel 2 put of support at this point? Do you still have security updates?
Show threadTechDog-MartyJan 30, 2024
@jacket lineage...
The headset adapter works unless the phone is already ringing...
Show threadJacketJan 30, 2024
@techdog It's great that custom ROMs keeps phones from being ewaist. I didn't know they where stretching it that far.
Show threadTechDog-MartyJan 30, 2024
@jacket I'm also supporting friends with an old Samsung galaxy note 2 who is still running CyanogenMod, one of my favorites. I gave my mom a low end Lenovo tablet with Lineage on it (made it much more useful without all the bloatware hogging what little ram they put in that). Not all hardware is supported, just depends on what the amazing devs have for hardware at their disposal.