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Oh, maan… I still remember my 5800, I loved that phone to pieces… Excellent speaker system for the time (it was genuinely stereo and had a bit of meat on the sound, too!), my first touchscreen (which was a bit frustrating due to my thick logs, but worked perfectly with the stylus), and it was also my very first experience with multiplayer on a phone! Used to play that default racing game with a year mate in Uni, and it was very fun! And the OS was as an OS should be: so smooth as to not even register with the user!

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stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The 5800 was a nice phone, but for me the king of Symbian phones was the E7, I am still pissed mine got stolen ):

Loved the fold out keyboard, it made the phone absolutely amazing, I remember running Putty Touch on my E7, sshing into a friend’s server to access irssi

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- latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That was my Goal Phone, yes! Either that, or the N8, but the 5800 was the only thing I could afford at the time:))
  
  They were really nice phones, properly into “smartphones” by that point - the 5800 was more like a… clever phone:))
  
  Oh, nooo!:( I’m so sorry, that’s how I lost my 5800, too! Got mugged at night, ffs…
  
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  - stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I used my first paycheck to buy myself an E7, less than a year later it was stolen ):
    
    It was a gorgeous phone but DAMN slippery!
    
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    latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Jeesus, that genuinely sounds painful!:( I’m very sorry I honestly don’t know what to say… I mean, I understand it’s just A Thing™, but some things are more than just “things”…
    
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My Nokia 701 also has Stereo:
Nokia 701

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- latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Well, I can’t speak for that one as I’ve never used it (nice though, looks like a proper Nokia should, gone through war and still running fine!), but the 5800 was a completely new experience for me in terms of phone-mounted speakers. Like, this was like a miniaturised sound system. The levels were unexpectedly balanced, the speakers were mounted well apart (at either end of the phone lengthwise), the stereo definition was very clear and dynamic, and it was loud enough to use as background music generator for a light social gathering, like a dorm room mini-party, setting the mood for… other activities, etc.)
  
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