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Case Aiken
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He/Him
Case is 5, but... bigger...
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Don't tempt me further!
January 27, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The community exists for both, but the carrier networks don't. I would be basically restricted to Wi-Fi.
January 27, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 12:50 PM
I'm currently writing an article for next Monday on which phones I would have bought instead of the ones I did (because I just went with the free carrier option until '06), but then it turns into a love fest for:
Nokia N95
Nokia N86
HTC Touch Pro 2
Motorola Droid
LG Quantum (actually had this)
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Yeah. So the first Blackberry that was an actual phone and not just an internet pager came out in 2002.

I was researching based on when my upgrades happened, because I got on Verizon in 2002 because that was the only network that worked at Colgate then, then upgraded in '04.
January 21, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Like, look at that beautiful keyboard! And it was a vertical slider!

I mean, look, Windows Mobile might have ultimately failed, but it's still exactly what I would have wanted in a phone if I had time traveled to 2004.
January 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM