Comment on Those were the days

• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Old dumb phones could not play arbitrary audio… Well, aside from phone calls of course. Ringtones were a series of… Tones! Kinda like a midi file, ever heard of that?

  Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?

  Extra fun fact, the original iPhone only had THE iphone ringtone, and you could not change it

  NO WAY… Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?

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  • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?

    All of that and more. They didn’t have mass memory, so you had a maximum number of contacts, a maximum number of SMS, a maximum number of ringtones… but you couldn’t delete ringtones to make room for SMSses or such. They were a completely different tech.

    NO WAY… Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?

    They loved it. Also it couldn’t share media (messaging apps didn’t exist yet and it didn’t support MMS) and was GSM only, so to actually do anything smart it had to be connected to WiFi.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?

    That and we hadn’t settled on standards nearly to the degree we have now. Much like charging cables it was the wild West for some shit out there. Also, many phones actually did support MIDI, but most normal users didn’t know what to do with it lol

    Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?

    Back then it was status. “Look at me, I have an IPHOOOOONEEEEE”

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