I got the battery for my old Samsung Rant! No idea what happened, but it showed up after being lost in the mail for a while. I'm overcome with feelings of nostalgia as the last call I made on it was April 30, 2011, right before I got my first smartphone. Thread detailing my findings... - ThreadSky

hal.halkozy.com • 122 days ago

I got the battery for my old Samsung Rant! No idea what happened, but it showed up after being lost in the mail for a while. I'm overcome with feelings of nostalgia as the last call I made on it was April 30, 2011, right before I got my first smartphone. Thread detailing my findings...

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kyuubethe3rd.bsky.social•122 days ago

I remember my sis had one of these phones! I missed out on that era of phone where it had a pop out keyboard. I had an old samsung flip phone from 2003 and went directly to iPhone 3GS in 2010…. only for the 4 to come out a month later with a better camera and a light. :(

hal.halkozy.com•122 days ago

I had AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger on this phone. All three of those services have long since been taken offline, but my phone preserved my contact list as it was when it was last connected to a network. Most people on the list I haven't talked to in many, many years, maybe since high school...

hal.halkozy.com•122 days ago

I grabbed a lot of photos from the phone already years ago, but I didn't know I missed quite a few. I found old photos of high school friends and old videos of my family's old dog being a goof.

hal.halkozy.com•122 days ago

Phones back then had far more limited storage, so my phone auto-deleted many texts. The phone has room for about 200 messages. Oldest text left was from mid-March 2011. I used to get texts for Facebook notifs, AIM messages, and weather alerts.

hal.halkozy.com•122 days ago

Unfortunately, my custom ringtone is no longer on the phone. The way we got custom ringtones on a Rant back in the day without paying for it was to convert it to a video for the phone to play as a ringtone. Mine was the remix of Gangplank Galleon from SSBB.

hal.halkozy.com•122 days ago

There is a headset jack of some kind, so I may do some direct audio capture of the ringtones on the phone and other stuff I find worth documenting. Stay tuned.

hal.halkozy.com•122 days ago

For old times' sake, I took a photo using this phone. It's of the corner of my desk where I display my Blu-ray copies of Berserk '97 and Berserk Golden Age Trilogy Memorial Edition. There's also an Umaru print still there. May swap that print out soon.

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