Just learned that the first smartphone I used in 2008 had less RAM than a cheap digital watch from Walmart today

I was reading through old specs on GSMarena last night for a Nokia N95 I used to have and found out it had 64MB of RAM while looking up a $20 Casio calculator watch my kid got for Christmas that has 128KB, wild how far we've come but also makes me miss that clunky camera slider so bad, has anyone else gone down this rabbit hole of comparing old phone specs to modern junk?

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nancy_green3d ago

Oh, tell me about it! I remember being so proud of my 2007 flip phone that had a whopping 5MB of storage, and now my smartwatch can probably run circles around it while I'm just trying to find my reading glasses. Guess that explains why I still accidentally leave the alarm on and can't figure out how to turn it off these days.

rileygonzalez3d ago

My buddy Steve still uses a flip phone because he says it lasts a week on one charge. The other day he pulled it out in a coffee shop and this teenager asked if it was a vintage collectible. He told her it was his backup for when his "regular phone" dies, but really it's his main phone and has been since 2012. Poor guy can't even get maps on it, so he still prints directions from MapQuest.