my galaxy 5 (i5500) (even older than the s3!!!)
I collect old android and this just so happens to be pretty common where i live! this one in specific i plan to give to my girlfriend, its running stock android 2.1 atm but im gonna custom rom it to 2.3.
Wouldn't this be horrendous on an information security level? Thousands of exploits patched since this version of Android.
Might be so obscure that no active exploits remain in the wild.
Anyway most apps refuse to install on anything older than 9.0 now.
Might is a keyword there. I wouldn't wanna find out. Might be fine if you restricted the way you use it in certain ways I suppose.
There's a chance it doesn't speak the necessary protocols for modern websites.
It's a search engine built for old browsers, searches and proxies pages to strip them down and make modern pages compatible
A chance? It 100% doesn’t.
A surprising number of websites still work with these old devices though. I have an OG HTC Dream and it will go to more websites than I’d think it should.
Back when phones had character
Guys, don't make me get out my HTC Magic.
God I miss HTC. Such nice phones
Same. The touch pro (running Windows) remains one of my favorite phones. I just want a physical keyboard
Well they still live as Pixel phones.
I still have my Dream… do I win?
I have one in a drawer. My fave trick was sidearming it 50m and not breaking it. Nokia has nothing on this skimming stone.
It's running CM9 but very, very slowly. I made a video of the speed regression.
CM7 was way faster.
I had a sony xperia go about a decade ago. One time I decided to see if I could even break it. I threw it up in the air in a concrete parking lot as high as I could (about 50-70 feet I think) and it landed on the concrete, nothing but some scratching on the plastic.
But I will say that today I have a Pixel 8 and I dropped quite a few times, some of which left me scared to look, and it is holding up amazingly.
I'm waiting for my Pixel 6a to spontaneously combust.
That's really cool! You own a piece of history there. That's not just a phone, but an icon of a time gone by. It's a testament to the hard work of the people who built that system.
cool!
I miss small phones.
I have the new Fairphone and yeah.... small phones were nice. I remember my first smartphone the Google Nexus 4 (I waited long before buying one), and I still think that it was the biggest that it should have been
Imagine today's PPI/ppcm scaling to <5 inch screens
If she loves to tinker with old devices or just needs a dumb phone, sure!
If you want them to have a functional smartphone, Android 2 is unfortunately super dead. The only Google service/app still working is Google Maps (you need 6.14, from 2014).
There are no projects to port newer browsers to Android 2, so you will get by with what you can. The last browser to have dropped Android 2 support is Via Browser (4.0.9) around 2020. If a custom ROM to Android 4 is available, you will be able to install the latest version of this browser, but it is still the last browser to still support it.
Anyone remember the T-Mobile shadow? The 2-letter keys were the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device to this day.
I went from a Shadow to a Dream! I loved my shadow other than it having fucking horrible support for connecting to a computer. The software for transferring files was complete and total garbage.
The keyboard was great, though!
That was my next device too. I still have my Google G1 running some archaic version of CyanogenMod (I think android 1.6 donut?). I want my next device to be a Linux phone with that style of keyboard.
Still better than Apple
Well... yeah
What is she going to do with it?
Depends if the vibration motor still works.
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