My razr. God I miss that phone.
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Personally I think the ZenPhone 9 series looked very sleek and cool - especially the in red colour choice.
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.
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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.
The HTC UI was also pretty cool, as far as I remember
Came here to post this, I loved that phone. Hmm I wonder what roms exist for it now...
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. 🥲
I had the Chocolate Flip and loved it.
Edit: looking at it now, it's just a generic flip phone.
My old mate’s phone stuck with me for decades. Not sure if it’s pleasing but sure is something
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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.
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.
Your picture didn’t load for me so I am attaching my own;
The Nokia "fashion" line had some interesting designs
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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.
The original HTC Incredible. Comparatively speaking, it was a very modern looking phone. The back was the thing that people noticed. It had a weirdly shaped battery cover back. The physical interface was pretty great and it included an optical cursor or whatever you want to call it.
modern phone gripe
It could be operated with one hand whether you've got big hands or small hands. I hate the fact that everything now is available only in phablet and bigger phablet.
And without user swappable batteries. Ugh.
BlackBerry. Dang I miss them. They were business cool. Now I make due with a Unihertz Titan Slim. And hopefully they upgrade to a second one cause age is showing on mine.
I know it isnt the same form factor but the Titan 2 is coming soon with pre-production units being sent out to people already and estimated release in October.
I had the original titan and will probably get this to try it out but that also means a Titan Slim 2 is a possibility at some point. The key2 that the slim copies is the best phone I ever owned I think!
I sadly had to retire my Key2, easily the nicest phone I've owned since 1994.
I bought the Titan but returned it for being so underpowered in comparison. Is the Titan Slim2 going to improve on that?
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Yeah. I saw. It's a potential hopeful that a Slim 2 is on the way. This would make my year. Given the success of this lineup, I feel positive about them following through. But it also means a Pocket 2 before a Slim 2 so we are going to wait for awhile.
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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.
Probably a red Blackberry Pearl Flip. One of the last phones I had that wasn't a featureless black slate covered in rubber.
Downvote me all you want but I actually liked the Surface Phones.
They were well built, I could multitask nicely, the thin bumpers were nice, it wasn't overly gimmicky. I preferred the divider between the screens.
Downsides...not a flagship in any specs. Also terminated.
I learned about them two weeks before they lost support, wanted one really bad and I'm glad I had only just bought a phone already (Pixel 7a) otherwise I would have bought it only to then look up the update cycle and see it was about to be discontinued.
That being said, reviewers noted at the time that the multitasking on Android was a bit clunky, which may have been an opening for a custom ROM to come in and improve this.
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.
BlackBerry passport in red. It’s still in my closet.
My old Motorola RAZR from the mid-aughts.
iPhone 3GS. Lovely little thing. Mine was white.
My first smartphone was the LG Optimus G. It had a textured pattern on the back that made my other phones look plain by comparison.
HTC Legend, the first smartphone I ever had. I still have several apps from it that I've kept carrying across. Comparing them with the stuff you can get now shows how bad apps and widgets have gotten. Anyhow, the phone design was really Nice.
Adding to this again.
Ericsson T28/T39.
I absolutely loved the look and feel of the essential ph-1. The ceramic back felt great in the hand (the few times I dared carrying it without a case). The size was perfect for me, and I personally found the notch less distracting than the hole punch camera.
Samsung Galaxy S3. It was my first phone with a large touchscreen; everything before that was a flip phone, or one where half the phone slides away to reveal a full keyboard.
![The Motorola rizr, perfect shape, the slide function felt really nice. I miss this phone sometimes]
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I really liked the palm pre. Fit well in the band and the slide out keyboard was awesome.
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