> I've recycled quite a few at work. Found a box full of old nokias, star tacs, etc. > should I have been sending those to a dumper?
unfortunately I think a lot of them integrate the rom into the CPU / DSP chips, so they're a bit of a pain in the ass..
the less popular ones probably are at risk of being lost tho, as you note, people tended to recycle them, or throw them away, many had interesting little bits of software / unique games too.
region specific online services for many of them are gone too, apparently Japan had a lot of network/service specific mobile games, often from the major manufacturers even in the pre-android / ios days
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