Speakers were not the issue. These phones literally didn’t have the processing power to play any kind of “audio” as we know it. They read notes to make different beeps and boops from the phone itself.
Here’s a tune someone your age might recognise played on one of the best and most popular phones of the time (tbf. the 3330 was better).
https://youtube.com/shorts/86Pmw38LvAg
Aah gotcha. I think there was a transitory generation of button phones from whatever this is to smartphones. We were kinda poor, so smartphone adoption was really slow in our family. However, I remember my mum having such button phones where she could play music and stuff on it. Oh, n it also had some weird car game that I sucked at (although she sucked at it a lot more lol). And you could change ringtones on it just like u could for today’s smartphones. Hence was left confused hehe.
Speakers were not the issue. These phones literally didn’t have the processing power to play any kind of “audio” as we know it. They read notes to make different beeps and boops from the phone itself.
Here’s a tune someone your age might recognise played on one of the best and most popular phones of the time (tbf. the 3330 was better). https://youtube.com/shorts/86Pmw38LvAg
Aah gotcha. I think there was a transitory generation of button phones from whatever this is to smartphones. We were kinda poor, so smartphone adoption was really slow in our family. However, I remember my mum having such button phones where she could play music and stuff on it. Oh, n it also had some weird car game that I sucked at (although she sucked at it a lot more lol). And you could change ringtones on it just like u could for today’s smartphones. Hence was left confused hehe.