Ericsson R380
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- DeepIn2U
- q{W
- 13 Nov 2023
Simply Amazing!
A look bak in time just over 2 decades and despite the thrills and chills and failures and successes and departures of some standards the following remains true and king from the grandfather of all smartphones:
Reliability in product manufacturing.
Stylus support and ships with it! (Think Samsung S23 Ultra in 2023)
Some shipped with Deskstand for upright charging. Many ppl still get 3rd party products for their phones.
Landscape support.
Sensor to disable speakerphone when brought to your face.
Some for of handwriting recognition, even if the person has to adapt to predefined set of instructions.
Sync with the computer - for some functionality, but no longer necessary. A connection nintheless still needed.
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- Osama bin abdul
- 9aB
- 07 Nov 2022
I miss mine, 05 Nov 2021This is the grand father of all smartphones we used today.Yes it's the grand father of all smart phone I got this phone as gift in year 1999 or 2000 I was a student in 11 standards, really it was the great grand father of all the smart phones. Mis my phone very much
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- Young Y
- Kx7
- 17 Mar 2022
I miss mine, 05 Nov 2021This is the grand father of all smartphones we used today.Agree with that.
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- I miss mine
- r3H
- 05 Nov 2021
This is the grand father of all smartphones we used today.
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- IPhoneSE2Confirmed
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- 08 Dec 2019
Note: I’m still FlexiblePhonesPlz. I just changed my name.
There’s one thing these specs are missing
It doesn’t say the OS
it runs EPOC32 release 5 (would later be renamed to Symbian OS)
Proof? Here’s what it says on Wikipedia
2000 — The Ericsson R380 is released with EPOC32 Release 5, marking the first use on a phone of what's to become known as Symbian OS (as of Release 6).
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- Aadrian
- Sk@
- 02 Sep 2018
Mine's still in mint condition though it sometimes has some touch issues in the right bottom corner of the screen. Other than that it's a really awesome phone.
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- SE
- mvG
- 12 Feb 2018
Still got my R380 with it's original battery (that also houses the stylus).
There are signs of the time on it especially the screen that has some pixels that stopped working.
Else the R380 still going strong.
My R380 was delivered with an table stand for charging and computer sync.
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- Aadrian
- 0wE
- 21 Jan 2018
Lol in the specs list:
Resolution - Big
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- Anonymous
- 0wE
- 10 Jan 2018
awesome phone
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- Daniel
- 08@
- 03 Dec 2017
Stil got mine & working strong
Great machine
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- AnonD-695237
- fsV
- 02 Sep 2017
Used one back in the early naughties. Back then the phone was way ahead of its time. Few phones could match the features the r380 had
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- mrbeir
- vxx
- 01 Sep 2017
i had oen i love dit it worked ..took it overseas it worked .
email wap ...wow ..LOL..ballistic writing was awesome could join conference calls etc had the chippery .
still miss it .
great form factor .Looks like a phone but what ..wait...no ... it was super-phone
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- donrapheal
- Nu7
- 30 Apr 2017
lol
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- me
- 09 Mar 2017
first symbian!
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- Julliard
- RIE
- 22 Dec 2016
Ericsson R380s VS. N, 19 Aug 2001Ericsson R380s is (best) but Nokia 9210 is (BETTER)!!!.Comments from the millenium is so funny. This must be what it felt like when future generation reads our comments. "This phone is better than that phone!" Lol. Oh, wait. Back then human dont use LOL. I mean, hahahaha. Future people probably using emojis. Sorry, gsmarena havent support emojis, not even in 2016.
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- AnonD-283018
- SjZ
- 08 Jun 2016
still better than iphone
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- AnonD-401972
- Kg{
- 05 Jul 2015
i love this i am a student a i want this to experience pda goodness and wap on monochrome screen to check my facebook account,wait facebook for this.but it's only used to check your email or some yahoo,wait another modern age.simply amazing.but it's archaic or obsolete for a modern time or today.
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- 3nr
- 02 Apr 2015
Still have working one. Very good phone...
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- Calin
- JEF
- 29 Mar 2015
I just can't imagine this phone having a browser.
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- averhielle
- Kg%
- 26 Nov 2014
ERICSSON, 17 Aug 2014This was the truly first functional smartphone with a truly OS!!!a symbian OS monophone!