• nifty@lemmy.world
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    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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    It had a belt clip, that was the only reason to get one of these. I had one.

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      And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.

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        And rain, I don’t think these had IP ratings

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            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.

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    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.

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      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 removed 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

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    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.

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    My parents had one. They aren’t the smartest bunch