Daily reminder that some cell services still work with these phones.

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Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 23:48:20 No.548098

Daily reminder that some cell services still work with these phones.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 00:47:43 No.548123

kill yourself...

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 03:56:29 No.548215

I miss phones with nice, meaty buttons.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 04:22:48 No.548223

Thanks OP, almost forgot.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 06:22:24 No.548257

I am going to need something from the 80's when Trump gets elected President.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 06:37:02 No.548266

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I bough one of these in 2005 and it still works great.

I think all the new 4G standards are backwards compatible with GSM so hopefully there isn't any special GSM hardware in those cell towers that they can switch off.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 15:33:56 No.548426

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AT&T here. 2G service is being eliminated in most locations, so that the transceivers can be re-purposed for LTE coverage. It would be nice if it could stay, but radio bands are what they are. For the time being, if you have a "standard" size SIM, and an old phone, you can pop your SIM card into it to see if it will get service. One of the benefits of GSM service is that your SIM is what is attached to your service, so you can change phones without contacting your carrier pretty easily, in most cases. Be advised that iPhones, older BlackBerry phones, and some other specialized equipment need to be provisioned properly at the billing level to work with special voicemail features, or data service provisioning.

I still have a Nokia 1600 somewhere. Didn't have a camera, but could receive MMS messages, and send them.

Image not related.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 18:49:45 No.548533

wonder how hard it would be to rip the guts out of an older phone, and replace them with new open source hardware while still keeping the buttons and screen nice

shouldn't be too complicated + you have a ton of space to work with that you could easily fit an atmel chip+3g adapter in

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:29:55 No.548600

>>548533

Why not just get a Samsung Rugby? Reinventing the wheel is not what an electronic engineer wants to do.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:30:42 No.548601

Daily reminder that AOL still offers dialup.

Daily reminder that there are still updated drivers for most 56k integral modems.

Daily reminder that many factories use machines from the 50's still.

Daily reminder that cars from 1908 still operate.

Daily reminder that many people still drive cars from 1990-99.

Daily reminder that people still use computer hardware from the early 2000's on a daily basis.

>what is your point

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:35:49 No.548604

>>548601

daily reminder you can still use msn and play msn games.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 21:01:32 No.548616

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>>548426

Reminds me about the time when sprint shut off there iDEN network so phones like pic related dont work anymore.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 21:43:18 No.548642

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHvC2HJx-sk

Check out this

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 06:11:26 No.548918

>>548601

You can buy a new motherboard capable of using a Core 2 Quad processor, that has ISA slots on it. My primary system has three floppy drives. Well, two internal, one USB external. All in my quest to get a working 5.25" floppy drive. Pain in the ass with the limited hardware I have.

>>548642

With ancient phones, if they still have a carrier lock on them, carriers will tell you to fuck off when you want them unlocked, because the case groups that handle seeking ancient unlock codes won't do their fucking job, and get paid $30 an hour to sit on their asses, soaking up that money for DECADES with no fear of losing their fucking jobs.

You can tell I don't have an easy job or decent pay. I may as well be Pajeet, sans the penchant for shitting in the street.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 06:24:15 No.548931

>>548601

I toured a bread factory two years ago. It was like walking into 1950. They didn't even have computers outside of the shipping area, just stacks of paper. Those are the people who think iPads are amazing and innovative

Also I'll never buy bread again because I'm not keen on eating out of a pan from 1989 that has been thrown on the floor without being washed, or even rinsed, or bread made in mixers and huge systems of augers that are only washed out weekly ("don't worry, we passed our health inspection with no violations")

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 10:49:15 No.549039

>>548616

That's actually a pertty cool phone.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 12:56:25 No.549072

>>548215

I miss phones with buttons in general.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 14:25:29 No.549102

>>548918

get a startac 75. It's compatible with LTE networks because it uses the 1800 gsm band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAmcGbR608

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 14:27:43 No.549103

>>548426

Where can I buy one of those Pre-9/11 nokia phones?

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 15:41:10 No.549116

>>548931

>Food is not toxic or harmful in any way, but it was handled with tools that are not aesthetically pleasing, and/or has been around not-sterilized matter. I will never eat food again.

Guess what bucko, I guarantee you that every single piece fod on the shelves of the store you visit has been dirty and nasty at some stage of production.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 16:19:56 No.549130

2G being shut down in Australia this December.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 20:52:09 No.549223

>>548098

2G is being turned off in most of the US, I think the target date is 2017. However, if you like buttons and the feel of a hefty phone, do the following: Purchase old phone of your choice, with intact keypad. Purchase 3g / 4g modern dumb / flip phone of your choice, with service (they make these still, but you have to complain a lot for the sales people to get them out of the back room). Disassemble both phones. Hack the new phone's guts to fit in the old phone's case, might take quite a bit of doing, but it is doable. Hack old keypad to operate new phone. Position new phone's display in place where old phone's display was. Possibly hack battery to fit inside old battery and jumper to old battery connector, or not, whatever works for your hardware. Use old phone, pick up chicks. It's been done a few times, there's a guy with a modern phone hidden inside an original ATT brick. Google is your friend.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 21:13:01 No.549232

>>548931

>why do we cook food?

Anonymous 03/24/16 (Thu) 00:39:49 No.549331

>>548931

>not getting fresh baguettes from your local boulangerie

Dégoûtant.