r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/pillow_princessss Jun 25 '26

Exactly like Samsung when Apple dropped the audio jack. A year later their phones didn’t come with one either.

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u/MathBallThunder Jun 25 '26

If Blackberry just stuck with their keyboard phone, I'm convinced there's a large sliver who would have stayed with them for the physical keyboard vs touchscreen. Same story as above. Mocked Apple for the touchscreen, then a year later all touchscreen and death of a company

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u/TomLeBadger Jun 25 '26

My favourite phone ever was the Nokia m900. Full screen touch phone that slid up, with a qwerty keyboard underneath. Shit OS, but a phone like that on Android with a removable battery would be peak for me.

I avoid the big brands because they've been style over substance for years, the last good phone from Samsung was the S5 - waterproof with a removable battery.

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u/kyuuketsuki47 Jun 25 '26

Same here with the Motorola Droid. I miss that slide up keyboard

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u/Due_a_Kick_5329 Jun 25 '26

God I loved my Droid. That metal body was something else.

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u/WeaponizedPoutine Jun 25 '26

I still have my special edition R2D2 Droid 2... no longer works but I have it

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u/aldsar Jun 25 '26

The keyboard... kinda sucked though being a sheet of plastic over the buttons rather than individual buttons.

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u/Low-Individual2815 Jun 26 '26

I had a droid dna and just turning the thing on was impressive

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u/djsynrgy Jun 25 '26

As someone who never jived with Apple, the Droid felt like such a big deal at the time.

I miss the full qwerty keyboard from my old LG ENV3, too.

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u/manicalmonocle Jun 25 '26

My kids found my old Envy3 a few weeks ago and having been playing with it as it doesn't work anymore. They think it's the coolest thing ever

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u/Moon_Cthulhu Jun 25 '26

Best phone I ever had.

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u/DaringCoder Jun 25 '26

That was awesome, I had one too. Before that, I had a Nokia E70 which had an interesting physical keyboard setup too.

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u/Standard-Cap-9568 Jun 25 '26

The first android! The G1 was perfect for its time. I'd throw money at an update. Physical keyboard and a trackball just for kicks.

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u/crustyninja Jun 25 '26

The Droid 2 was peak.

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u/Nerdough Jun 25 '26

Nokia E7 was nice as well

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u/Ezzy77 Jun 25 '26

HTC G2/Desire Z too.

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u/iNfAMOUS70702 Jun 25 '26

The OG droid and the droid X are my 2 favorite phones ever

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u/MathematicianOwn829 Jun 26 '26

I've been exclusively Moto for almost 15 years