+667 phones are not as good as they use to be, the nokia brick phone could survive anything whereas my samsung touch phone barely makes it through a phone call. amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My first mobile phone had ten lines of black or white pixels and not a single game, as recently as 2003. It was still over $100.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think OP is talking about the quality. Nowadays phones have a lot more apps, but they already break after you've dropped them one time. Unlike the old Nokias that would even still work if you threw them against a wall. My dog once practically ate my old Nokia and there were holes in both the keyboard and the screen. It still worked.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

your dog sounds like Marley from Marley and me :D haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

True, although it depends on the company. Manufacturing techniques are much more advanced than they used to be and higher quality materials are much easier to afford now, allowing products to be of higher quality on average - especially beyond stuff made in the 1980s and 1990s. There were definitely products that were exceptionally well made though, such as the Nokia phones he mentions and products like the Super Nintendo. There were also many indestructable seeming products made in the 1960s, but if you look over everything as a whole, especially in small electronics, the stuff made today is light years ahead in quality and design on average.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It sounds like you're talking about the quality of the phones based solely off the amount of damage they can take.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Also there were bad ass games like Snake and Space Invader :D. My mom's phone was almost always close to being low on batteries because I was always playing on it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Agreed, they're not quite as indestructible. However, while my own samsung touch probably woudn't survive being thrown at a wall, it has fallen off my bed a few times (onto wooden floor too, not carpet), and it's been fine. Compared to my second or third, which fell once and couldn't be used after.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have a new Nokia and it could still survive anything. Nokias are indestructible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago