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• tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had a Nexus that I got as a hand me down. It had a ball with customizable colors

  The next one I had after that had an led you could customize for different types of notifications

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  • dai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah the LEDs were always handy to have, and the coloured notifications on the trackball (nexus 1) with a third party app was super cool at the time. My trackball after a few years got pretty dirty and didn’t want to clean with chemicals in fear of damaging it. 

    Currently using a Nothing (3) which is somewhat similar with the small led display on the back. 

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    • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I still have it around somewhere in hopes I can fix it

      When I got it, my family said it didn’t work, it had some weird error. I charged it and turned it on so they were like “sure you can have it”

      It was my first smartphone,. actually, and I used it for quite a while until it died again. I don’t remember the error, but it was basically bricked and I couldn’t factory reset it via the phone menu. I had a very young child and trying to figure out the android sdk for a computer to fiddle that out was too taxing for me

      I really liked that phone for sure. I’m sure it’s a lot of nostalgia, but I miss the older simpler phones. Much easier to handle, too.

      I’ve currently just been using every couple generations of the Xa model. This one’s a pixel 7a, last was a 4a which the child has now. It’s got severe battery life issues after that update recently but I haven’t looked into it too hard. Been wanting to look for some alternatives and I’m leaning towards something unconventional, at least by today’s standards. I checked out that phone and it really looks good, both aesthetically and specs wise

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