Those were something, weren’t they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.

And in hindsight… Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn’t it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.

While I’m here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.

I guess just in general I don’t like touch screens and it’ll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don’t actually need them. I’m out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still

  • @HakFoo
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    71 day ago

    If you srill have your e200, Rockbox makes it smooth and you can run Doom.

    The wheel went bad on mine so I swapped it for a later wheeled model and 2x the price of a generic MP4 player of similar size, but it wasn’t the same; I found it in my box of dead phones a few weeks ago, the soft-touch coating all sticky yuck.

    • 12022081631 [he/him]
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      31 day ago

      yea i found the e200 wheels were nice to start but they got really mushy after a while. i can see why you replaced it