I remember my mom spent like $300 on one of these when the iphone first came out because the sales guy at the store conviced her the iphone wasnt worth the extra money.
my mom had the S5230W Star WiFi. which is basically the same as this phone with a display .2 inches bigger. i remember it being really slow but it was ok for calls and text which at the time is what we all cared about lmao
I had the star but without the wifi. It only ran mobile Java apps and games, most of which were developed with physical buttons in mind. So most apps would just fill half the touchscreen with a grid of emulated number buttons (like on an old phone) just so you can navigate the app. It was so shit. I loved it. Brings back memories...
Man, used a samsung star with a TV receiver back when my zenphone 2 laser died and didn't had money to get a new phone. Made uni a lot more tedious for 3 months.
@@TheSergeyJWI used to have basic S5230 as well when I was 10. The system worked perfect for me and it didn't matter that the J2ME button controls were horrible, I loved this phone and playing games on it😂
That ring tone was my mom's favorite and I always hated it. I haven't herd it since she died... I was only 22... I'm crying now now, but it's not ur fault mate😂 i still pay for and call her phone every now and again just to hear her voice. Feel like that tone was on point with that in my ❤️ BRING BRING IM ON VIBRATE If this rings in ur ❤️ comment, I'd love to hear from you 🤙🍻😎
Same I hate those pointless crappy cringy ringtones that girls put, glad my mom and I set the ring to default, those cringe tones are like, uhh reverse-skibidi-toilet
I know it’s a device from 2008, but the camera samples included in the GSMArena review are awful. I’ll never nitpick about the image processing of current smartphones ever again. They’ve reached their peak!
Or even convert from original to whichever specs work best for this phone. But then it'd not be a true review of how the actual camera and microphone record media. But would be a good test of playing better original footage, but converted to this phone's specs.
@@pvshka Why not? Not like filesizes were big at the time. It does have SD slot and 200+mb of internal storage. A 15-minute video recorded with the Samsung F480 at QVGA resolution and 30fps would be roughly 55 MB in size.
@@Natsukashii1111 TOP TO BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT OR ELSE. For real though I swapped from a Note 20 Ultra to an iPhone 15 Pro to try out iOS and that was the first thing that bothered the hell out of me. My hand is bottom right--why can't I put most of my apps there?
@@Wheelman2004 it only took apple 10years to use an oled screen like Samsung. It only took apple 5years to use USB-c like everyone else. It only took apple 12 years to have widgets on home screen... That's an useless game to play honestly to try to count points.
I still have my old S5230 from like 2011. Compared to modern phones these things were tiny. One genuinely neat thing about it is that it came with a pdf reader. I would cut classes to read books on my phone because I was just that damn cool.
Same phone lol, love that old style and still runs games on 25 fps and browser worked great, but i lost it cuz i tried to flash android 6 to it and it got bricked 😭
The first touch screen in our house was a Samsung Colby on yellow, I remember asking my mom to give it to me just to hold it because it was so smooth and unlike anything I've seen before. It was the cutest phone at that time and I wanted one so bad :(
Bug's Song was my ringtone back when I used a Samsung Smile back in 2014. Used that thing until the towers were shut down since my parents didn't want me having a smartphone at all. That stupid slider phone had been hit by cars and survived after falling out of my pocket into the street.
The first touchscreen phone in my house that it wasn't a PDA, it was my mom's Nokia 5800 XpressMusic which I ended up inheriting as my first phone, that thing was pretty cool for the time tho
I inherited one from my brother too, I was rocking it while everybody was already using the iPhone 4. I loved the thing, but I hated the resistive touch screen.
@@JesusHernandez-tm4uw Same lmao, almost everyone on my class had or an iPhone or an early Android and then I was with this without a data plan and being happy with it lmao
Oh yeah I had one of those, even if the touchscreen was not the best I remenber playing RU-vid videos pretty fine and mine even survived a lot of hard falls, I don't even remenber what happened with it, I think the battery died because after some time it want to turn on, but at that point I had another phone already.
These pre-Android/Pre-Galaxy days with Samsung smartphones were wild. I remember my mom and dad both having one called the Samsung memoir, it was cool at the time and did its job as a phone pretty well. But the OS was terrible, it had no apps, the screen was functional but I don't think it was multitouch. My parents eventually moved on to other phones and my mom gave me her Memoir because at the time I was still using my Nokia Xpress music. Takes me back to those early days of post-iPhone smartphones, and a particular story about some dickhead I worked who had to let everyone know he had a smartphone. I think it was Samsung again when they were still loading whatever non Android os on their phones, but better than the Memoir and he would go on and on about styluses were the way to go with smartphones for some dumbass reason like "why would you want to touch the screen!". And I'm like dude, who wants to keep pulling a stylus out every time they want to use their phone?
I inherited an F480 from my dad and it became my first phone through senior school.. until I had another Samsung smartphone bought for my birthday a few years later. The phone worked so well for me, it wasn’t the best but I’d had worst before! After I never needed it, it got passed to my uncle and then I lost track of what he did with it. Then for the sake of nostalgia, last year I bought one of these for myself but when I booted it up it turns out it was an F480i, which is an improved model from the normal one and one thing it did improve on was the finger scrolling.
i had one of those in 2009 and when i got it i was the happiest kid around. iphones were like $600 and spending that kind of money in a phone wasn't normalized yet back then, even more for a kid but yeah they aged badly.
The first Galaxy generation a year after this was really when Samsung actually started to get halfway cromulent, they REALLY found their feet with the Galaxy S in 2010 though. My dad had the Galaxy S Captivate (the AT&T exclusive trim) to replace his old flip phone and, after he finally ditched it for an S5 in 2016, gave it to my sibling who used it til it finally started bootlooping 2 years later. Damn thing lasted 8 full years and it was still surprisingly usable after all that, couldn't run a lot of high power apps but anything browser-based ran fine on it and the app support for Android 2.2 stuck around for a long time, just cause of how many $20 burners used (and still use) it. Great phone for the time, and held up quite well.
My first touch phone was from around the same time. It was the Samsung Instinct(M800). The phone was so bad it lagged when I typed to text people. There was nothing like typing a full sentence, only to have nothing happen for a few seconds, and then BOOM the phone buzzes to life with the haptic feedback as the words appear one by one on the screen.
From 2011 through 2013, I had an LG that was eerily similar to this! Bought it because it looked kind of like a smartphone with the touchscreen and all, but had a similar horrendous chuggy OS on it. It technically had a (tiny) virtual QWERTY keyboard that would come up if you dared to type a web address in the “browser”, but it didn’t support QWERTY for texting. You had to type all your messages using a T9 keypad!
Wiping phones is very important. Bought a box of random electronics from this nice woman and after charging two of the phones in the box, one had clam pics on it... not great ones either...
I'm in the minority here, but I'm quite fond of these nonsmart TouchWiz devices. I was on T-Mobile here in the US at the time and they had a ton of different variants of these. I ended up with a Samsung Highlight. The OS was definitely a lot more polished and wasn't as laggy at that point, but it enabled me to get a phone with unlimited data and messaging far cheaper than a smartphone and still give me most of the functionality.
The lg rumor touch was my first phone, I told my parent that I really wanted an android. The sales guy told them it was basically android... It couldn't run apps at all other than pre installed paid games. Shout out to that sales guy!!
I had one of these as a hand me down from my grandpa (it was an F480T, which was a Telstra version), I actually didn't mind it honestly! If only I know where the charger went....
During that time I had a similarly crappy LG KP500 also known as the LG Cookie. Back then you were one of the cool kids if you had an iPhone so there was a custom firmware you could flash onto the cookie to make it look like iOS 4
This was the first smartphone to arrive at the shop where I worked at the time. The model name is burned into my memory because it was such a pain in the buns.
I'm pretty sure I had one of these and at one point took it apart and now the buttons are gone lmao God this thing had some weird ringtones I remember one of my friends at school being obsessed with it
The first touchscreen in my house was either my DS Lite or my dad’s galaxy s5. Yeah, my parents waited a while to get smartphones and I also got my DS used.
I remember when Samsung made their own line of Wave and Wave II phones with the Bada OS. It seemed like a pretty good challenger to the Androids back then, including Samsung's own Galaxy phones. However, few apps jumped into the Bada ecosystem and it faded and met a natural death.
i had a samsung sunburst--my firsy phone actually. it was the only "free" phone at at&t that came w a touchscreen, so i got it and spent the 2 years i had it wishing it ran android
Except for the fact that "bootleg Master system" was actually officially licensed by SEGA themselves. SEGA couldn't sell their consoles on their own due to the laws at South Korea preventing hardware from Japanese companies being sold there, so they turned to SAMSUNG to make a deal for them to produce the consoles as exclusive editions in South Korea. In a similar sense, Nintendo turned to Hyundai to release their consoles in South Korea.
i remember i got this as a gift and also my sister got the same model. but for some reason i got with some kind of developer OS because i could access root files, secret settings, etc
Was this the Aussie mum default smartphone? My mum had one for a few years as well. I don’t remember hating it, but it was pretty basic. She liked the long battery life, and would play solitaire on it in front of the tv most days. Now she’s using a Motorola android phone with much better screen and camera, but still playing solitaire. Love you mum ❤️
This reminds me of the first original Samsung Omnia windows phone. My sister was using it at the time, and touchscreen was just horrible. There was a stylus that came with it since it barely reacted to your finger. Funny thing is that I still have this phone and it still works.
I had a phone that was similar in like 2010. It was a Tracfone that ran J2ME, not Android. I used that thing somehow until around 2013 when I got a ZTE Grand that I used until 2019 when that version of Android stopped being supported for anything. In 2019 I got a 20 dollar TCL at Walmart that I am watching this video on right now. This thing is indestructible let me tell you. It's been dropped in water many times, dropped down the stairs, off the roof, and much more and it still works perfectly to this day. 32 gigs of storage is a bit small for the ~1000+ PDFs I have on it but it has an SD card slot. The only thing is the Micro USB port, but then again I can buy those cables at the dollar store.
This shows how far Samsung had come. From terrible UI and a camera a flip phone laughs at, to something responsive, has cameras that can zoom into the freaking moon.
My aunt had this phone, and she kept saying “woah, this thing is amazing!” “This takes good pictures!” Exc. because she didn’t know about the iPhone yet. But still, after that got old, she got a Nokia Lumia.
On the topic of “not wiping things” I bought a 3DS at cashies, it apparently came from NSW and somehow managed to fumble its way into vic. Anyway, it came with a 2gb as cars and the thing was FULL of photos of some kid, clearly the owner of the DS. Did not enjoy going through and deleting the photos, was very uncomfy seeing someone else’s kids room, pets, and just their life in general..
My first touch screen phone was a white mytouch 3g back in 2009 ish, it came with Android Donut. I ended up case swapping it with a black shell. I still have it and it still works.
I just got an F480 and it has a much newer firmware installed on it. It doesn't lag and it even has kinetic scrolling. The UX of this original release looks terrible.
Our first smartphone was some sort of Samsung. I wasn’t old enough to remember what the model was but my dad got rid of it after like 8-10 months because it was awful, instead opting for the (at the time) brand new htc one m8
I used to have this phone, was my first ever "Smart"phone. I actually liked this thing, but as soon as I had my first Android I questioned myself how I thought this was any good
My mom used to have a Samsung Star (a.k.a. the Tocco Lite), which is it's a budget version of the Tocco but without 3G and Wi-Fi. It had a very different UI than the Tocco and it has a better touchscreen navigation than the Tocco.
WiFi existed then but a lot of carriers wouldn't take a phone that could avoid paying data charges with WiFi - so many phones had their WiFi capability removed to appease carriers like T-Mobile.
last year I "upgraded" from a Galaxy s10e to some cheapo $80 Nokia because I was tired of how many useless features were being crammed into modern smartphones, and it's been properly nice to use for my purposes (chatting/texting/web browsing, cameras are fine but not great). I doubt $80 would have even covered repairs for my Galaxy (battery and screen were shot). Budget nugs have come such a long way.
This was my first touchscreen phone back in 2009. I used it until 2011 when i got my first proper iPhone. The only thing i didn't like about it was the reverse scrolling, otherwise it was okay for its time :D
First touchscreen in our house was an LG 500 or something, that was €149. My first ever touch screen was a LG cookie fresh, that I still have to this day.
If I got a phone with someone’s contacts still on it I would fish up whatever little snippets of info about the peoples lives I could find from the texts and then send them mysteriously specific messages
Samsung seemed to have iterated on their terrible touchscreen os (something java based), the phone my mom had (different model) did have wifi and proper scrolling, but it was always so damn slow, nobody misses these unlike other feature phones for a reason.
the first time we even had a touchscreen on our phone was exactly this, my god i was astonished back then because my little brain was like: HOW DID THEY DO THAT? WHAT KIND OF WITCHCRAFT IS THIS? and nowadays its like meh..... man my reaction was priceless and very very VERY impressed, the technologies back then were really amazing.
My mum got one of these used, free from a neighbour in about 2010. Even then it felt awful and backward compared to a friend's ipod touch. Got replaced by an Android Samsung in maybe 2012/3, but was daily used til then
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My parents didn’t buy a thing without my permission. From getting and upgrading internet to picking our tvs to their phones desktops and laptops. They dunno what to buy. But I did and still do :3 never had junk like this but we didn’t just buy a new iPhone every year. Whatever I made them get I told them will last. (I kept my 7+ till last year, great phone, no repairs ever)
I used Samsung's SDK to write widgets for those phones. It was the only way to to install "apps" to these phones (i know a widget is not an app but some widgets behaved like apps like the built-in Facebook widget). It all was extremely laggy and it didn't even support https connections.