Now featuring Clippy

June 27, 2018 10:37 AM

Introducing Windows 95 Mobile [slyt]
posted by porn in the woods (15 comments total)

Isn't this exactly what Windows CE was?
posted by aubilenon at 10:44 AM on June 27, 2018 [8 favorites]

That Twitter App looks amazing.

I get where they were going with the Back Start Search Layout. But it really needs to be Start on the left.
posted by zinon at 10:45 AM on June 27, 2018 [1 favorite]

I don't know which is more creepy, a mobile Clippy or that freeze frame of fucking Steve Ballmer dancing.
posted by howfar at 11:13 AM on June 27, 2018 [5 favorites]

Mobile Clippy: Alexa for sex offenders.
posted by howfar at 11:15 AM on June 27, 2018 [2 favorites]

If I still had a windows phone, I might actually pay money to be able to skin/theme it like this.
posted by ArgentCorvid at 11:37 AM on June 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

At least the music is better.
posted by grumpybear69 at 11:46 AM on June 27, 2018

Phones should be beige.
posted by ckape at 12:40 PM on June 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

MetaFilter: Kids these days making jokes not realizing it was literally what happened.
posted by petebest at 1:52 PM on June 27, 2018 [8 favorites]

Isn't this exactly what Windows CE was?

As I remember it, WinCE (aka Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, and maybe Bob Jr. if I blinked) was worse. Microsoft used to put on an annual junket for proto-gadget-bloggers where they'd get flown to Redmond, wined, dined, entertained, and given a backpack stuffed with merch, including a WinCE device, and even that couldn't get people excited about it. The only deal killer is that GIF of Ballmer; even Clippy is second (although a close second) to that sweat-soaked hominid.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:34 PM on June 27, 2018

but its name was Clippit : o
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:38 PM on June 27, 2018 [1 favorite]

Make it in Hot Dog Stand for an extra $50 and sold
posted by Space Coyote at 5:25 PM on June 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

Maybe it's just the nostalgia, but that actually looks really usable.
posted by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 6:25 PM on June 27, 2018

This would be my dream retro-mobile's OS. Other features would include a monochrome display, a telescoping whip antenna, and wood-veneer trim on all four edges. Plus, square corners.
posted by Rash at 8:56 PM on June 27, 2018 [3 favorites]

Mrs. Octo had a couple of Windows based PDAs (remember that term?) that she used for reading ebooks long before Kindle appeared and they looked pretty close to this.

MS putting a start button on a tiny PDA screen that you had to navigate with a stylus was a true landmark of bad UI design.
posted by octothorpe at 5:11 AM on June 28, 2018

I miss my Windows phone.
posted by chavenet at 5:16 AM on June 28, 2018