De Samsung N500 deed me vooral fantaseren naar een mooier toestel
My very first phone, I don’t even know in what year I got it. Back in the days I chose this phone as an alternative to the Nokia 3300 or 3400 everyone had. I felt for its stylish metallic look (which from then on, was a stayer for Samsung) and its neat blue backlight.
Of course it’s not all romance when looking back. The phone has terrible buttons which you sometimes need to press quite hard to get feedback from them. With sms messages longer than the screen, the screen didn’t move down but to the right of the screen, making the message extremely unreadable.
Most of all, I missed four directions on the directional button instead of two. Quite strange, because back then there wasn’t a single affordable phone with a four-way pad an its operating system didn’t need one either. I guess even more than being my sweet first phone (with a terrible intern antenna after I dropped the machine twice), the N500 was a base for my thoughts how phones could improve.