Much before smartphones with touchscreens took over the world, people used Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson phones with all those buttons that we actually got to press. They came with tiny, rectangular screens and were the best you could buy.
While mobile phones now come in all shapes and sizes, they don't feel the same.
In the early 2000s, the designs were likable, but they might seem strange now. A Twitter thread on the same is now going viral and making people nostalgic. A user named Gerry McBride shared pictures of different designs of phones from the early 2000s.
"After the early bricks but before smartphones, there was a stretch where phone design went absolutely catshit bananas," the user wrote while sharing an odd-looking model of a Nokia phone.?
¡°This thing was ideal for if you had to take photos of Russian documents while undercover in Moscow, also yes that is a tag on it like it¡¯s a t-shirt," wrote the Twitter user as he shared a bizarre model.?
"One more- here's a phone I had, the Sony Ericsson W995. Nothing unusual about it really, slide out keypad etc. But it had a little kickstand that let you prop it up to watch videos! isn't that something?! Where's that innovation nowaways?!"?the user said.?
¡°I had another 3310 and then I went for the Sharp GX10, and boy did I think I was hot shit with this thing. Yeah, it takes pictures. COLOUR pictures. Watch, just stand there. Don¡¯t move. Ok, two seconds, don¡¯t move. Don¡¯t mo- ah crap, you moved. Well yeah it¡¯s blurry, you moved!" the Twitter user wrote as he shared a flip phone.
¡°What am I missing? Let me know. Anyways I really miss phones with moving parts. Maybe that¡¯s why I always get a cover for my iPhone that makes it look like a little leather book/ wallet thing," the user wrote as he asked other users to share their phone designs.??
People shared the old phones they had.?
"Working at Nokia in this era was incredibly fun. People sometimes (legitimately) mock those wild designs but miss that the company was an engineering and supply chain powerhouse. So many mobile tech firsts slipstreamed in behind those crazy designs, and to millions of people," a user said.?
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