For instance, would you carry an iPhone the size of a shoebox if the rest of the space was a battery? Would you even be willing to carry one of the 80s phones that had a satchel?
if it doesn’t fit in my pocket, i won’t carry it. i do not accessorize.
has to fit in the old prison wallet.
I just want a smallish 5-6 inch screen with a 4:3 ratio and a decent camera.
I mean, people carried these by their convenient handle back in the day. The lead-acid battery just built character.
The only kettlebell with programmable ringtones!
I’m carrying an S26 Ultra and wouldn’t mind if it was 3 times thicker. I regularly carry a Tab S8+ around when I am going to the store so I can look things up or take down ideas.
I also had one of the Motorola bag phones in the mid 90’s as my emergency car phone.
Would I carry around a bag phone today… probably not. I haven’t really spoken on the phone since April and it’s been about 2 years since anyone other than my other half has called me but I was tired of the junk calls so I turned off receiving calls from any number not in my contacts list.
It depends on the capabilities. I was the weird kid who carried a workstation laptop in a briefcase from 6th to 11th grade, when the hinges seized from use; then I used a netbook for the remaining semester, which was paaaaain.
But being able to game in class, work on papers, give way more immersive presentations, run a Minecraft server for my A+ hardware peers, and stay under the radar with quick reflexes and an unassuming machine, was fucking kickass.
I also similarly, for a couple of those same years, used a Nexus 7 with Google Voice as my phone. Walking around with a tablet near the size of my head, texting and making calls while people were like ‘wtf’. But I saved a ton of money vs a true cell phone plan.
If it’s a phone with the capabilities of a laptop in a size reasonably close, hell yeah. This is my jam.
Anything bigger than the current trend of phones is too big and there’s plenty of comedy skits like these demonstrating the ridiculousness of it all.
Happy TV from 2000:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yktod
Edit: Adding that I would pay a premium to have a 4" iphone 1 sized phone back today more than I would to pay for a ridiculous fold model.
I don’t like little flimsy phones. However, my current phone is at the upper limits of what I consider reasonable.
It’s a ulefone 27T pro
Height: 182.8 mm
Width: 86.8 mm
Depth: 18.5 mm
Weight: 441 gramsI would say 500g is likely my hard limit, outside of special circumstances. As it stands, it doubles as a self defence weapon.
