I agree, all the aforementioned features are critical for the everyday user but what about easy one-handed operation and device durability?Ī pocketable device that you can navigate and use with one hand is crucial, I don't understand why we are going the way of the phablet. In my opinion we don't even have a phone that does all of those really well, but we are getting close for sure. Why have we become obsessed with making our devices larger and so feature rich it bogs down the experience? Can people have a phone that nails all the basics such as texting, calls, access to popular apps, takes great pictures, amazing battery life, fast system performance? What I want is a return to form for the phone industry. I'm not here to play the blame game or to be told I should be better at monitoring my smartphone habits. In my life, having a smartphone is becoming a distraction. Its plastic construction, easy to use keys, and of course, Snake II, made it such a hit, that it can still been seen in use even today.įor more nostalgia-inducing phones, make sure to check out our History of cell phones blog post.I have become tired of smartphones with large displays and having access to anything and everything at the drop of a hat. The true king of turn-of-the century phones, this device was as ubiquitous as it was indestructible. No list of old-school phones is complete without the Nokia 3310. Combining a thin design, with small buttons and a color screen, the phone was a game changer for the mobile industry, when it was still in an awkward design adolescence. Despite being difficult to control and making texting a chore, this phone was nonetheless highly popular for brief period.ĭespite costing at over $1000, the worlds first true ‘clamshell’ design mobile phone was an instant hit. What was born from this was the Nokia 3200, a mobile phone with just 6 keypad buttons. While other phones were trying to have ever more buttons and controls Nokia tried (somewhat unsuccessfully) to create a phone with less. Even the Apple iPhone doesn’t have the same combination of thin and elegant lines, futuristic light-up keypad and dual LCD screens. Theres has never been a phone quite a fashionable as the MotoRAZR series of flip phones. Featuring a swivelling screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and a colour LCD screen, it was for a while, the hottest phone on the block. Probably the phone with the largest number of buttons you have ever seen, the Danger Hiptop, was nonetheless a highly functional phone when it was first released. With its 4 retro games, simplified SMS messaging and interchangeable snap one covers, the phone set the standard for the next few years for ‘candybar’ phones. Not only can we see how far we have come, but also see other directions in which phones could have gone, should market conditions have been different.īelow you can check out our nostalgia-inducing list of the top 6 mobile phones which we loved as kids:īulky by today’s standards, the Nokia 8210 was nonetheless the lightest mobile phone in the world upon its release in 1999. While the recent generations of smartphones have pushed the limits of technology and specifications, sometimes it is worth taking a look back at what used to be considered the bleeding edge.
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