It was a simpler time...

Now there's some 'member berries

'memeber sharing ringtones with your friends via Bluetooth?
- Oh yeah, and giving each person their own ringtone
- That 8 bit tone of Sweet Child O Mine
- You mean over IR

Unlimited mobile to mobile, free nights and weekends. 500 minutes per month. Good times.

Oh shit, I forgot they used to do unlimited minutes only to the same carrier, so long-distance gf and I had to coordinate our carrier choices
I only had 200 minutes, but it was 30 bucks, so I couldnt complain.
- I still live like I have limited minutes, and can honestly say I don't think I've used more than maybe...20 minutes a month? Maybe less. I just checked my last 3 bills, and t-mobile doesn't list minutes anymore.
- After inflation that's like $700 today though.

I remember when some friends had unlimited inbound calls. I'd get texts to say call me so they wouldn't have to pay for minutes lol

I had contacts that called, let the phone ring once or twice in order to ensure a missed call on my end, end the call and wait for me to return the call.

I remember having unlimited texts in the evenings and weekends. It used to pop off after 7pm

Hot damn look at that sidekick. What a perfect machine right there. So good the team got hired by Google to port their Hip OS and turn it into Android.

The Sidekick is still my all-time favorite phone. I bought the first Android phone, the g1, solely because of the Danger team being involved in it's development. I still use an Android phone but it's never been as exciting as that Sidekick was.
- Oh is that why the first android phone was so good? I had a developer edition of that and it slapped. Keyboard was amazing

I remember waiting until 9:01 just so those bastards couldn’t try to charge me shit

Kanye South

I had one of those Sidekicks!

Same! I loved it. Flip flip flip.
Did you know it had a video out jack on it? You could plug it into your TV and watch YouTube! Lol
- No way that's wild
- Wait what kind of Jack? HDMI wasn’t out then right?

You guys remember bag phones

My parents have told me...

Wait, you guys don't have 24/7 unlimited calling? Wtf

If you go back even earlier, you couldn't even call outside your geographic region. Nationwide calling was a big deal!
- Long distance charges were a bitch.
No, you had night and weekend minutes. You had a package of texts like 300, 500, 1000, and texts over the limit cost something ridiculous like 15 cents or something.
Uh no, we lived in a first world country thank you very much.