Personally I think the ZenPhone 9 series looked very sleek and cool - especially the in red colour choice.
My razr. God I miss that phone.
Iconic. That flip open/snap shut feeling. Insanely thin at the time.
The only right answer. That bad boy was awesome.
The V3i, I paid full price for that phone when it came out. I modded that thing as much as I possibly could!
Yes! I had the candy bar version, the Slvr.
It scratched that cyberpunk itch.
I wish the current Razr smartphone series was also a book foldable instead of only clamshell foldable :(
The duck phone. The quack when you got a call was annoying, though.
And, yeah, I used to use one like that.
Ahh, classic style.
And you could knock a motherfucker out with one! Like in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis beats a pimp to death.
HTC One M8, hands down no questions. Curved aluminium back, front facing stereo speakers. Fits the hand like a well tailored glove.
There may be fancier looking phones out there, but nothing I’ve ever seen looked cooler.
Came here to post this, I loved that phone. Hmm I wonder what roms exist for it now…
The HTC UI was also pretty cool, as far as I remember
LG Chocolate! I had the white one. It did everything I needed, supported custom ringtones, had paid ring back tones (remember those?), played music, etc. The best thing was being able to text with one hand while not having to look at what you’re typing. Hopefully it’s not nostalgia affecting me with this phone, but it ran flawlessly for years before I eventually upgraded to a Motorola Droid back in the day.
I miss fun phones. I can either have a folding slab, a black slab, or a different slab that comes in other colours. 🥲
Oh I fucking hated ringback tones. What a goddamn terrible idea.
Totally agree! If they came back I’d immediately hang up if I heard some annoying ass song instead of a phone ringing.
But a young me really liked them and bought a few!
I had the Chocolate Flip and loved it.
Edit: looking at it now, it’s just a generic flip phone.
I loved my Nokia 7380 art deco phone. It had a screen hidden behind a mirror surface, a rotary dial instead of buttons and even a little fabric flap like a pair of jeans or something. It was so widely different to anything else out there. I wish it still worked on contemporary wireless services, but alas. It was a pain to text on but with voice messages becoming a thing, it didn’t matter too, too much. I would probably go back if I could.
Yes! When I saw this post the Nokia 7380 was instantly where my mind went. I had the exact same phone, it was rad.
I remember at the time it was referred to as a “lipstick style” case. Loved that thing. I still have it in a box of old electronics somewhere, been thinking about digging it out and seeing if I could get it working again but assumed it wouldn’t on the current cellphone frequencies. I stopped using it when I got the original iPhone at release, so that was 18 years ago I guess. Haven’t not had an iPhone of some variation since.
The simplicity of it is what I always loved about the form factor. Yeah, it sucked for texting but maybe I shouldn’t be writing long texts nowadays anyway. It was fine if you are just replying with a couple words to a text. That reflective one way mirrored screen, real leather and simplicity of the buttons was a great mix of form and function for me at the time.
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The Nokia “fashion” line had some interesting designs
More phones should come with fabric flaps ‼️
The Samsung U600 was stylish as hell.
I had a Samsung phone not dissimilar to that. It was a brownish color, the D-pad was square not round, but probably had the same internals as that phone. It was tiny, maybe even slightly hard to text on because the 1, 2 and 3 keys were a little close to the slide, if the slide had another 3 or 4mm of travel it would have been an improvement. It had that garbage curved mirror near the camera lens for selfies.
My Kyocera 6035 - Palm Pilot and cell phone, God I loved that beast. Yes it was one of the first smart phones but also that flip keypad to let you cover the writing block and all the other touches were the bee’s knees.My old mate’s phone stuck with me for decades. Not sure if it’s pleasing but sure is something
Imagine typing a text message with that
Utter nightmare. It doesn’t even lit the available letters in the dark. It’s just bad
Motorola g8 plus. The photos online do no justice, you need to hold the phone and see it. It had a shiny case, sort of metallic, sort of iridescent, it gave the impression of being made of thick glass over metal or something. The only phone I never wanted a case for, I only used transparent ones for it because nothing out there could look better than the phone itself.
If it weren’t for a forced upgrade to 5g network in my country I’d still be using it.
Edit: here, I’ve made a gif of it. It still doesn’t look as good. The camera doesn’t get the change of color to purple, and the gradient from dark to light gets lost. The reflection on the surface also throw the camera off. But all that said, it’s better than a still photo.
This was my favorite phone I’ve ever had. All metal case, big front facing speakers, slim form factor. Apparently according to this article the processor was bad and the camera wasn’t great but I didn’t notice or care. I never bothered with Bluetooth speakers with this thing because it sounded great and it was waterproof. It also had a radio tuner built in that you could use with wired headphones acting as the antenna which I used a surprising amount when waiting in places with poor cell service and at least once trying to get weather updates during a bad storm. I wish more phones went with just weird features like this.
Sony Ericsson J300i
My sister also had a Siemens M55, pretty fun phone at the time.
The OG Motorola Razr was the most aesthetically pleasing phone I ever remember. Shit was like TOS Star Trek’s communicator thingy.
Nokia Lumia series. It is a shame that they did not sell
Ah the soap boxes
Loved my Lumia 920 back in the day. A phenomenal phone featuring a fun user experience with the Live Tiles. It was a great phone if you didn’t like apps.
Microsoft gave up too soon. Android was also shit at the start, it only became good around 4.0
Dual slide helio ocean, t9 and hardware keyboard on different slide outs
