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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Most things seem older than they actually are to me. This seems like it's been longer. I can't believe it's was less than 15 years ago when I was first playing with custom roms and overclocking my android phone.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

With advice and info all on techsupportguy.com, baby.

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My first smartphone was the Motorola Droid 2 and it could easily be over clocked from 600 MHz to 1200 MHz. The dynamic overclocking even helped the battery life. I miss the keyboard, it was great for playing old video games on emulators.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

My first was a Samsung Moment slider phone. I still miss having a real keyboard.

It was an 800mhz arm11 chip. I think I was stable at 1100, but can't remember for certain anymore.

I know I could do a lot of custom charge settings and stop it from charging at whatever percentage I wanted it to stop at. Something you STILL can't do on most phones, but should be able to. A lot of phones now at least give you an option to stop at around 85% by enabling "battery saver", but what if I want it to stop at 90% instead?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I missed HTC Evo 3D. Too bad phones with 3d screens didn't catch on.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You mean headache phones? I never messed with using the 3d on my new 3dsxl, either.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 6 months ago

Whelp, I actually love the 3d feature 3ds, just wished the screen had higher resolution.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those early smartphone designs were really something else. I think they were trying to make it look like space ship controls, but it just ended up looking like a car stereo.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 3 points 6 months ago

In case of Samsung it was just their design language carrying over from their slide phones.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 6 months ago

When it was released, the screen was huge, at least to me. Crazy how 6.7" has become the norm now.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

I had that phone, and I loved it. I've probably still got it in the cupboard somewhere, along with the original Note.

The mix of physical buttons and touch screen is something I really miss.