this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now there's some 'member berries

[–] 3FingersOfMilk@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

'memeber sharing ringtones with your friends via Bluetooth?

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh yeah, and giving each person their own ringtone

[–] mruniverse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Remember when snake was the best mobile game. lol.

[–] StalksEveryone@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many ringtones were basically memes in audio format. Like arnold shwarzeneger talking or akon and lil wayne lyrics. MIKE JONES!

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago

218-330-8004.

[–] 3FingersOfMilk@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Anyone else assign someone the ringtone "silent" ?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can still do that on Android.
You know, if you wanted to.

[–] KiofKi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Can't remember the last time I heard a ringtone. Don't even know what ringtone I have. The world has turned awfully quiet in that regard.

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

That 8 bit tone of Sweet Child O Mine

[–] papabobolious@feddit.nu 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

This thread has two different layers of feeling old

[–] cma3246@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unlimited mobile to mobile, free nights and weekends. 500 minutes per month. Good times.

[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh shit, I forgot they used to do unlimited minutes only to the same carrier, so long-distance gf and I had to coordinate our carrier choices

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I only had 200 minutes, but it was 30 bucks, so I couldnt complain.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

After inflation that's like $700 today though.

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I still live like I have limited minutes, and can honestly say I don't think I've used more than maybe...20 minutes a month? Maybe less. I just checked my last 3 bills, and t-mobile doesn't list minutes anymore.

[–] EddieTee77@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when some friends had unlimited inbound calls. I'd get texts to say call me so they wouldn't have to pay for minutes lol

[–] painfulasterisk@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I had contacts that called, let the phone ring once or twice in order to ensure a missed call on my end, end the call and wait for me to return the call.

[–] fixmbr@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I remember having unlimited texts in the evenings and weekends. It used to pop off after 7pm

[–] Encromion@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hot damn look at that sidekick. What a perfect machine right there. So good the team got hired by Google to port their Hip OS and turn it into Android.

[–] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Sidekick is still my all-time favorite phone. I bought the first Android phone, the g1, solely because of the Danger team being involved in it's development. I still use an Android phone but it's never been as exciting as that Sidekick was.

Oh is that why the first android phone was so good? I had a developer edition of that and it slapped. Keyboard was amazing

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember waiting until 9:01 just so those bastards couldn’t try to charge me shit

[–] rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net 11 points 1 year ago

Kanye South

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had one of those Sidekicks!

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same! I loved it. Flip flip flip.
Did you know it had a video out jack on it? You could plug it into your TV and watch YouTube! Lol

[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what kind of Jack? HDMI wasn’t out then right?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Correct. You could plug a yellow video cord into it. Like how you'd hook up a camcorder to your tv

[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did that carry audio?

You’re talking rca right? So did you get audio through the phone?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I think, and mind you how long ago this was, but I think it was either mono or maybe just the phones speaker. I only tried it once so I'm not really sure on that.

[–] Steak@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

No way that's wild

[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys remember bag phones

[–] railsdev@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

When these things existing my uncle was driving me somewhere and he had his scanner going in the car. We were able to listen in on those analog phones; crazy to think of these days with ubiquitous encryption everywhere.

[–] SirBwennan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My parents have told me...