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Re:For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature A... by Felz on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:39PM (#19567821)
> Smartphones are equally as portable, too—but it’s hard to argue that they’re even half as lovely.

Actually, why not? You could find an endearing custom printed case, and to an extent personalize the software in a lovely and unique way.

Is the problem that they're not rare/irreproducible enough to be a collector's item? If so, will we eventually see collectors obsess over out of production phones?

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Re:For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature A... by jeanlucas on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:52AM (#19571623)
Just bad writing, just like when people automatically say "the old times were better" without even analyzing if it's true
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Re:For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature A... by chdaniel on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:29AM (#19570692)
I smiled the other day when I saw an iPhone 3G and remembered I keep a 2G in some box for collection purposes
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