The cover cushioned the phone so that anything it hit would have a chance to survive. It’s for the protection of everything else
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To this day bunker buster bombs consist of cardboard poster tubes filled Nokia phones.
It had a belt clip, that was the only reason to get one of these. I had one.
And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.
And rain, I don't think these had IP ratings
I have too much self respect to clip anything to my belt /s
You were the king/queen with a Nokia on your belt.
It’s really too bad how much their smartphones suck compared to the old phone days.
Them and Kodak
They really burned me with their Nokia 9 Pureview. That camera set up was shit and less than 1 year of support?! And I really liked the Nokia 7, with that copper tone around the edges? That was sexy. But after the 9? Never again Nokia.
Yeah, the cover protects anything that the phone falls on.
It's not for you; it's to make HER feel sexy. You wouldn't understand smh.
(/s, if it's needed)
Everyone plays up the 3310 as a snake-playing text-messaging mjolnir but I had a Motorola Talkabout that survived being spiked into the pavement once. The battery popped out but I put it back in and made a phone call.
turns out a plastic shell with some give in the structure can take abuse more gracefully than a solid brick made of glass. and aluminum.
I had a Nokia something or another, it was a stick phone from sprint, somebody got pissed and threw it full speed, across the room, into a concrete wall, and it flew into like 7 pieces.
However, when I put those 7 pieces back together, that son of a bitch went on running.
I guess there’s trade offs for everything, but the younger generations will never know how to send a t9 text from your pocket
I always had flip phones until the QWERTY keyboard era but I really do miss being able to text by feel.
They made it for that little plastic clip on the back to put it on your belt, not to protect the phone. So it's still useless.
It might be indestructible, but it's not impervious to dirt. Which isn't even an issue for the phone itself, it's just gross.
My parents had one. They aren't the smartest bunch