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layout: post
title: 'Random Thought: Smartphones with old technology'
date: 2025-04-05 20:23 +0200
lang: en
categories: tech
---

How would smartphones look with old technology? What if we never invented flash
storage?  (Leave aside the answer "the smartphone would not have been
possible").  Like, what if they were using tapes / tape drives as primary
storage?  Or floppy disks?

&lt;insert AI generated image here - hah, you wish. I'll have none of that on my
blog.&gt;

This thought was presented to me while listening to the ["Stay
Forever"](https://www.stayforever.de/) podcast, a German-language podcasts about
old games and their technology.