While many people are nostalgic for flip phones, sliders are the way to go for me. Sure, I had a basic flip phone in the early 2000s, but I didn’t really get excited about phones until I got my first sliding phone with a full QWERTY keyboard in 2006. That satisfying THWOMP made me feel like I was a secret agent every time I texted my mom to pick up some more Mountain Dew and Cheetos.
But when the PSP Go and Xperia Play brought that form factor to gaming, I just didn’t get it. At that time, I didn’t want to overlap my gaming devices with my phone. I still don’t, but that’s the unfortunate world we now live in.
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