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  1. Since I am 52, I had the first cellphone in 1998 and it is like a brick. Still have it and I showed my stepdaughters and they laughed. It is bigger than current cordless landlines. I also have the first texting flip phone. The texts were basic faces and words. It's not like you can type since it was a flip phone. I kept all of my old cellphone..maybe it will be worth money soon (I can actually charge them too!) I do the email blasts for our family biz and 85% of people look on their phones so I keep that in mind when designing the email.

  2. I agree with Sam and Casey. I think folding phones are going to be the norm. I think that they will get bigger, and more foldable. I'm excited to see where cellphone tech goes, but my guess is we'll have something almost like a thin notebook that we'll use.

  3. I've still got my working Sony t28 world flip phone. I purchased from Fido in Canada for 600.00 Canadian in 1996. The flip was spring loaded , so it would shoot open whenever I used it and I will tell you. I WAS SUPER LEET BABY!

  4. This convo was so nostalgic. Laptops with physical keyboards will last until Neurolink style interfaces. Cellphones will last until transhumanism eye ball enhancements become the norm.

  5. 700 years old Casey COME ON lol. Making me feel like a Dinosaur now! Im 51. I skipped the "beeper" generation, even though I lived through it, I had the same red phone you had, and I had the blue Nokia shown as well. I think I even had a StarTac Motorola phone – the first real BAD ASS flip phone that was around before the Razr flipphone.

  6. I agree. No matter how much money Apple spends on marketing to convince people that the iPad is the future of computing, laptops will continue to be the main data entry device. This is why Chrome OS and Windows OS is still winning. Apple can cannibalize their macOS all they want with iOS, but it will not change for the entire industry.

    I also think foldables will replace tablets. A foldable iPhone will EASILY cannibalize the iPad. The two devices you NEED in your life is a smartphone and a laptop. Adding a tablet is just another "thing". Injecting a tablet into a smartphone by way of a foldable is the way it will go.

  7. i think the future when it comes to smartphones is when it takes over physical documents ie license, passport, IDs, etc. We are already seeing it with credit cards.

    For example, your license is integrated with your phone. so if you get pulled over, hand over your phone to a cop, they scan a bar code, if you will, and itll show up your record.

    Traveling? just scan your passport code from your phone

  8. I remember the first phone I ever got was the Motorola Pebble back in 2006. I was so hyped to have my own phone. Then after that I got all the T-mobile Sidekicks that dropped. Then I transitioned to Blackberry phones and eventually after started buying smartphones. But I remember how miserable it used to be to watch a video back then on a phone. It use to be buffering all the time like crazy.

  9. I remember the big Zack Morris phone & beepers. Though I was too young to have one. Then when the Nokia phone came out cell phones started to popularize. But we still didn't need cell phones to meet up & to contact each other. Back then people just knew the spots that your friends would be at. You could try skimming through your black phone book & call their home but mainly you'd go to the local burger joint or where ever it was that everyone would be at to see if your friends would be there. 9/10 times you'd find them.

  10. Great collab! But Sam, how could you not include/remember Blackberry & the dominant 'crackberry' community! That was THE major "smartphone" in the mid 2000's b4 iPhones. Everyone rocked a BB! iPhone was only available on AT&T & was very expensive & rare at the time.

  11. I can't believe you moderated this whole talk and didn't even do your research on RIM/ Blackberry until Casey briefly mentioned it. You didn't realize that in the corporate world, Blackberries were the biggest mobile phone in existence and was widely popular. They became so popular even regular consumers used blackberries because they were the only phone with a dedicated text-over-internet, BBM messaging. What a huge missed opportunity to talk about them, you missed a very key part of cellphone history that led to why imessage became a thing.

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