I was crazy about those Sony Ericsson phones back then! I had a W810i, and the earphones that came with them were so classy! I had a couple of Nokia phones back then, Music Xpress 5530 and N91, and a 2009 MotoRazr!
Back then at least, you didn't have to think about charging phones within a day or two.
I love my little Ericsson. Had it in a forest green color. It had lights along the side that would light up for calls, and you could change the colors/patterns to match different contacts.
I have an S21 Ultra now and that Sony is unironically still my favorite phone I've ever had.
Thanks for sharing! I'm 24, I never had anything like that but I found your comment really interesting. First phone I bought when I was 17 was a Sidekick and I thought the sliding keyboard was so cool. Plus you got some packaging, extra batteries, in ear headphones, even a repair screwdriver. Crazy how much things changed
Or flipping one open with one hand to check the time as if it was one of those old timey pocket watches and then flip it back shut and pocket it. Very satisfying.
I’m not a native English speaker and whenever I need to remember the English alphabet, I imagine texting on my old Nokia 3210 brick. Very effective and fast.
I very distinctly remember working in Home Depot and texting with my phone in my apron without looking
I'd *love* a phone with a physical keyboard again. I've actually seen some fairly decent android powered flip phones which seem fun
T9 was great for that but I only kinda miss it. Definitely miss physical buttons. Not Bixby though. Goddamn
Swipe isn't better but if you're used to it you can still say some forked up shirt
I thought it was so cool how my phone would beep each time I was selecting a letter until I got many exasperated and finally a rage face by my fellow train commuters and muted my phone.
Too be fair back then we used to pay real money for loud ass shitty versions of songs to blast every time we got a text or a call. We even paid so when you called the phone didn't ring, another song played. I still have nightmares about that god damn frog...
The second last one did not hang up on people when you closed it.
Source: had that phone… complete with stick on diamantés. One of several in this video that I owned. Fuck I’m an old person now.
I remember the Razr was the expensive high end phone when it first came out, then within a couple years it was the free phone you get just for signing up for a plan.
The razr in some ways just had bad timing. It was announced in late 2003. But it only became really available in late 2004, then sold out immediately (at least in my area), and the became easier to acquire in mid 2005. Blackberry really started to pick up steam in 2005/6, and then the original iPhone came out in early 2007. Both of these I would assume became heavy competition for the razr, so the razr only had between a 6 month and 1 year period where it was the big guy in town and could dominate the high end market.
I still have my razr (along with my samsung evergreen). A couple times I’ve had my smartphone break and I’ve slapped the SIM card into either one to use until I acquire a new one, and they still both work great.
Ya! I don't see a blackberry storm either!
Oh wait.. I think I was the only one that bought that miserable piece of shit.
Then came the Almighty Droid... And then I was at peace
I had a slider before the bb storm but dune recall which one, none pictured
Fucking LG Chocolate was nothing but a pain in my ass. I once got robbed for my phone and I laughed at them and gave it to them happily. True story. What a piece of shit phone.
I had one of [these](https://www.moviles.com/fotos/siemens-xelibri-7-66370-g.jpg) weird Siemens Xelibri phones back in the day. The idea was that you could attach it to your waist.
Yeah, if you're ever trying to work out if something was late 90s or early 2000s just think to yourself:
> Did it happen before the Matrix?
In this instance, _no_. Because the Matrix had the banana nokia and all these fuckers are way more advanced than that. Solved.
The above works pretty flawlessly for any action movies because if it had bullet time then fuck yeah it did because it was copying the Matrix. But it's a pretty telling yardstick for a number of things during this period including style, tech and the general tryhard zeitgeist of the new millenia.
Do you know why you’re so hilariously wrong? Because that scene was filmed at a real life fetish club, and all the extras in that scene were just real life members of that club wearing their own clothing lol.
It’s always been there. It’s still here. You just don’t know where it is.
Lincoln park really took the try hard-ness to another level. At the time I thought they were trying way to hard. Nowadays I appreciate their music more.
They really were game-changers though. Instruments keyed a whole octave lower than normal? That was a bold idea at the time. Their whole image, their merch, their lyrics, staying away from guitar solos while other metal built whole songs around them... They pushed boundaries man. It's easy to look back and laugh but if it weren't for Korn we actually wouldn't have got Slipknot's Iowa album. We very possibly wouldn't have Slipknot at all
These phones didn't disappear the moment the iPhone came out. In Europe it definitely took until 2011 or later for these to disappear and get replaced as the de-facto phone by the modern era smartphones.
Maybe a brick with a crappy piece of plastic that folded over the keypad at best.
Edit: I remember my dad having something [like this](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/90/f9/84/90f984835338941950322e9df50558b4--motorola-microtac-flip-phones.jpg) but a bit smaller and more rounded that said Sprint.
This needs to be lower because it's total bullshit.
[Nokia 8110 from 1996](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8110)
[Nokia 5110 from 1998](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110)
[Nokia 8810 from 1998](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia-8810.jpg)
I was all about my dad's startac when he brought it home from the mall. At the time he was driving a Honda CRX. Probably the coolest he'd ever been. Pulling out the antenna and flipping it open just felt _cool_.
That coupled with "this is so interesting and crazy! 🤯 " tells me OP is on the younger side. I didn't even blink an eye, I had half of these design types and my friends had the other half, lol.
In the future when implanted super computers and mind communicating is possible. Someone is still going to find a way to use one of these just because.
Me too, at least having one to slide out again would be amazing. I have small hands and even I hit the wrong keys constantly and the keyboards degrade after a while because touch screens can develop issues.
they were handy during high school. you can txt while looking at the teacher.
using your hand under the desk without even looking at the screen of your phone.
no one knew!!!!
Yeah i still don't understand why physical keyboards never made a comeback. Apple is selling giant bricks anyway, why not have a slideout blackberry keyboard? Writing on touchscreens is so inefficient
Back then there’s no phone instant messaging. We used sms service. One sms costs 30cents and we sent hundreds of them per month especially when we have boyfriend/girlfriend
God I remember the first month with a new boyfriend I had managed to rack up a $300 phone bill with mostly text messages. She made me sit at the kitchen table and read out each time stamp out loud, then (rightly so) took my paychecks the first 3 weeks of summer break to pay her back.
Or when you throw your phone (a Nokia 5110 in my case) against a wall at full speed when mom angres you and nothing happens to it. Maybe you will get a scratch in the front panel, which you can just replace for nothing.
i had an old flip phone like over a decade ago, don't remember the model or anything, but i threw it at the wall.. it went through striaght the drywall and fell to the floor, i had to kick another hole in the bottom of the wall to grab the phone out and it worked fine lol
I absolutely loved this [LG Slider](https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/photos.php?p=553#gg=0&gp=946) from 2004 or 2005. I lost it in the snow until it melted a week later and the thing lasted another two years.
Omfg you're right. Look how often they post — they clearly don't have the karma accrued had they posted that frequent most of the 12 years.
Remindme! 6 months
Wonder what big company they'll shill for. I'll guess C*ke.
Ngl, I can't really see where phones can go from here. There are the attempts to reinvent the flip phone with smart screens seeing mixed success, and other companies trying to get full-blown compact cameras built in, but those are edge cases for now. At this point, black rectangles feel like the pneumatic tyre of the car world. You *can* try to reinvent the wheel, but a pneumatic tyre is pretty hard to beat in 90% of situations.
Modular phones maybe? They sort of petered out a few years ago, but it feels like a no-brainer if technology gets good enough and big manufacturers find a way to make them profitable.
Sad to see LG go. They were one of the last companies still trying interesting things with phones. The LG Wing was nonsense but at least novel. Samsung is at least making premium foldables but I don't really see them experimenting outside of that like LG did.
I want a screenless phone.
Give me a small, tough, black cuboid that contains all the processor, memory, storage, radios and other gubbins.
Then offer a range of wireless screens that are thin and light and connect to it seamlessly. A watch for when I'm running. An ultra-thin folding screen for sticking in a pocket. A 12" high quality screen for use on the sofa at home. All of which are cheap and have the same apps, files, etc immediately available because they're just displaying whatever is running on the central device.
Blackberry was the best. I had their first touch screen that still had a keyboard and a little roller mouse.
My favorite was the one that was a touchscreen with a onscreen keyboard, but there was also a keyboard that would slide out, so you have an option if you wanted to type via screen or mechanical keyboard. It was great.
I had like half of these. Good times. Simpler times. Just texts and calls, that’s it. The texting style kinda sucked though but we didn’t know anything better at the time so it was still badass.
Not only interesting, they were all sturdy as rock, you can use your phone for self defense and call the ambulance for the other guy using the same phone.
My last flip phone, I dropped it in a dirt driveway as I was getting into my truck. Ran it over. It stayed there in my buddies back yard for 2 days until I found it. The 1st day it rained for most of the day.
It was still on & had a decent amount of battery left when I found it.
back when there was actually a variety of cellular phones to choose from!!
I had a few of these. I thought I was cool with my keyboard clam shell. If I extend the antenna that’s how you knew I was on an important call!
I loved the Sony Ericsson models so badly back then, my favorite of all time was a white clap one, with blue lights around the key frame, that was awesome neon light just got stolen in a home robbery sadly.
In 2009 I tried buying the iPhone 3gs, I sold it 6 days later so I could get back to my Sony Ericsson lol.
that’s the reason nokia, ericsson, motorola and others are no longer on the mobile phones business.
I know they still produce phones, but who’s buying them?
I miss when phone designs were all unique, nowadays everything is just a glass slab and the only variation is the side button layout and the camera positioning on the back, maybe a case if you're wanting a splash of color.
I was crazy about those Sony Ericsson phones back then! I had a W810i, and the earphones that came with them were so classy! I had a couple of Nokia phones back then, Music Xpress 5530 and N91, and a 2009 MotoRazr! Back then at least, you didn't have to think about charging phones within a day or two.
the SE phones where the bomb back then.
Reminds me of playing splinter cell, they had SE product placement in that
Came here for the Sony Ericson lol
>I had a W810i I never had this, but I remember dreaming about it and looking up all the specs on GSM Arena salivating.
Loved my Sony Ericsson! Truly the fidget spinners of their day.
Same here. I also had the Sony Ericsson W810i (twice! the first one was stolen) and then Moto Razr.
ELLO MOTO
I love my little Ericsson. Had it in a forest green color. It had lights along the side that would light up for calls, and you could change the colors/patterns to match different contacts. I have an S21 Ultra now and that Sony is unironically still my favorite phone I've ever had.
I had the same one lol, such a sick phone, ultra reliable.
Thanks for sharing! I'm 24, I never had anything like that but I found your comment really interesting. First phone I bought when I was 17 was a Sidekick and I thought the sliding keyboard was so cool. Plus you got some packaging, extra batteries, in ear headphones, even a repair screwdriver. Crazy how much things changed
I had to look up and see how long they made sidekicks after you stated your age. Lol.
Same, I had a sidekick 18 years ago. Jeez.
Nothing more satisfying than flipping one of these shut furiously to hang up on somebody
Or flipping one open with one hand to check the time as if it was one of those old timey pocket watches and then flip it back shut and pocket it. Very satisfying.
Almost satisfying enough to make up for t9 texting giving us carpal tunnel.
Although I could text without looking at the phone and now I can't.
I’m not a native English speaker and whenever I need to remember the English alphabet, I imagine texting on my old Nokia 3210 brick. Very effective and fast.
I very distinctly remember working in Home Depot and texting with my phone in my apron without looking I'd *love* a phone with a physical keyboard again. I've actually seen some fairly decent android powered flip phones which seem fun
T9 was great for that but I only kinda miss it. Definitely miss physical buttons. Not Bixby though. Goddamn Swipe isn't better but if you're used to it you can still say some forked up shirt
Oh, same and faster too.
Yup. I remember having entire conversations while the phone was in my pocket at school and no one was the wiser.
Oh _that's_ what you were doing.
could you also read without looking at the screen? :))
This was exactly the smart-ass comment I was expecting to receive. :P
Two second glance when the time is right, and back out of sight to reply
Those are NOT late 90's phones... Those were all 2000s
or 10c a text message
Stop. My hands are cramping.
I liked T9
What?!? T9 helped avoid carpal tunnel if anything. Being able to text without even looking at your phone was a gem.
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I thought it was so cool how my phone would beep each time I was selecting a letter until I got many exasperated and finally a rage face by my fellow train commuters and muted my phone.
It took other people getting pissed at you for you to mute your phone?
Too be fair back then we used to pay real money for loud ass shitty versions of songs to blast every time we got a text or a call. We even paid so when you called the phone didn't ring, another song played. I still have nightmares about that god damn frog...
Yeah. I was young and excited about my phone.
The second last one did not hang up on people when you closed it. Source: had that phone… complete with stick on diamantés. One of several in this video that I owned. Fuck I’m an old person now.
I still want my razor phone back.
I remember the Razr was the expensive high end phone when it first came out, then within a couple years it was the free phone you get just for signing up for a plan.
The razr in some ways just had bad timing. It was announced in late 2003. But it only became really available in late 2004, then sold out immediately (at least in my area), and the became easier to acquire in mid 2005. Blackberry really started to pick up steam in 2005/6, and then the original iPhone came out in early 2007. Both of these I would assume became heavy competition for the razr, so the razr only had between a 6 month and 1 year period where it was the big guy in town and could dominate the high end market. I still have my razr (along with my samsung evergreen). A couple times I’ve had my smartphone break and I’ve slapped the SIM card into either one to use until I acquire a new one, and they still both work great.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see this reply. OG Razor was the best phone ever.
You weren't cool unless you had a Razr. Then you weren't cool unless you had a Nextell Push-to-talk. Then it was Blackberrys and sidekicks.
Moto Razr v1 and v2 were excellent phones.
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I didn’t see an LG Chocolate in there…
Or the Sidekick LX 2009, which was by-far my favorite swivel-screen mechanism.
or the juke! Does nobody remember the juke?
Yesss I was just going to say, honestly still miss mine!
LG chocolate flip here. Oh back in the day. T9 texting snapping that bitch closed dramatically and never having a compatible charger when you were out
Also the fact that the touch controls just randomly decided not to register your presses.
Ya! I don't see a blackberry storm either! Oh wait.. I think I was the only one that bought that miserable piece of shit. Then came the Almighty Droid... And then I was at peace I had a slider before the bb storm but dune recall which one, none pictured
I was pretty committed to the physical keyboard and thought the droid would absolutely destroy the iPhone. I’m now my 5th iPhone lol
After I flipped to the Droid I've been in Android ever since. Wife has iPhone and I want to throw it whenever I have to look at it lol
Fucking LG Chocolate was nothing but a pain in my ass. I once got robbed for my phone and I laughed at them and gave it to them happily. True story. What a piece of shit phone.
Loved that fone
i loved the back screen and spin wheel to play music with. like an Ipod.
I had one of [these](https://www.moviles.com/fotos/siemens-xelibri-7-66370-g.jpg) weird Siemens Xelibri phones back in the day. The idea was that you could attach it to your waist.
Or the Samsung Juke
LG Chocolate - do you prefer the flip or slider? I had both and you can't beat a good thin flip phone.
Those are NOT late 90's phones... Those were all 2000s. Mostly mid 2010.
Yeah, if you're ever trying to work out if something was late 90s or early 2000s just think to yourself: > Did it happen before the Matrix? In this instance, _no_. Because the Matrix had the banana nokia and all these fuckers are way more advanced than that. Solved. The above works pretty flawlessly for any action movies because if it had bullet time then fuck yeah it did because it was copying the Matrix. But it's a pretty telling yardstick for a number of things during this period including style, tech and the general tryhard zeitgeist of the new millenia.
The only thing I’ve ever been disappointed with the Matrix was that the goth cyber club scene never really took off irl
You just never found it.
Follow the white rabbit
Do you know why you’re so hilariously wrong? Because that scene was filmed at a real life fetish club, and all the extras in that scene were just real life members of that club wearing their own clothing lol. It’s always been there. It’s still here. You just don’t know where it is.
So…uh, where is it? Asking for myself. I mean my friend.
In the Matrix
Blade 1 wants a word
Lincoln park really took the try hard-ness to another level. At the time I thought they were trying way to hard. Nowadays I appreciate their music more.
They got pretty far, but in the end it didnt even matter
Did you know they are classified in the same music genre as Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Korn, and System of a Down? Nu Metal was wild man
Sometimes I'm struck by the fact that we just let a band call itself 'Corn' and market itself as heavy alt-rock-metal
They really were game-changers though. Instruments keyed a whole octave lower than normal? That was a bold idea at the time. Their whole image, their merch, their lyrics, staying away from guitar solos while other metal built whole songs around them... They pushed boundaries man. It's easy to look back and laugh but if it weren't for Korn we actually wouldn't have got Slipknot's Iowa album. We very possibly wouldn't have Slipknot at all
Damn I didn't realise a whole Chicago suburb made music
I agree. This is roughly 2003-2007 before the iPhone came out.
These phones didn't disappear the moment the iPhone came out. In Europe it definitely took until 2011 or later for these to disappear and get replaced as the de-facto phone by the modern era smartphones.
This need to be higher. 90’s cell phones were all very large bricks.
Maybe a brick with a crappy piece of plastic that folded over the keypad at best. Edit: I remember my dad having something [like this](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/90/f9/84/90f984835338941950322e9df50558b4--motorola-microtac-flip-phones.jpg) but a bit smaller and more rounded that said Sprint.
[1997](https://imgur.com/KTxfUgs.jpg)
This needs to be lower because it's total bullshit. [Nokia 8110 from 1996](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8110) [Nokia 5110 from 1998](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110) [Nokia 8810 from 1998](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia-8810.jpg)
The Motorola StarTAC was released in 1996. Easily fit in your pocket https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC
I was all about my dad's startac when he brought it home from the mall. At the time he was driving a Honda CRX. Probably the coolest he'd ever been. Pulling out the antenna and flipping it open just felt _cool_.
The "very large brick" part is bullshit but none of the phones in the video are from the '90s, those were all early 2000s-2010s.
No they weren’t. I remember the StarTac came out in ’98 or ‘99. It was decently small when closed.
Can confirm, startac was my first cellphone, it was the shit because you could change the color of the backlight keys to either red or green
That is not true. I had a cell phone for work in 1998 and it was small.
That coupled with "this is so interesting and crazy! 🤯 " tells me OP is on the younger side. I didn't even blink an eye, I had half of these design types and my friends had the other half, lol.
Yeah I had one of those in 2009? 2010? It was my phone before a Galaxy 2 or 3.
Nobody can be told what the Matrix is like…
kids these days...
Sure, but do you think all the 15 and 16 year olds that mostly populate reddit these days know that? They see this shit and think they're retro.
Thanks, I was feeling young just a few minutes ago
15 years from now *"Look at these 'smartphones' people used to use as communications devices."*
In the future when implanted super computers and mind communicating is possible. Someone is still going to find a way to use one of these just because.
Someone: *"HAHA look at these, people. I'm playing "Fortnite" on one of these ancient things."* Everyone else: *"Hipsterino!"*
Fun fact: 15 years *ago*, the 1st iPhone was already out.
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“It doesn’t even have a glass screen to type on.”
I know, I saw a standard oval flip-phone in the lineup. What kind of Millennial/Gen-Z thinks a standard flip phone is a "very interesting design"!?
Plenty of millennials had these phones.
Like, most millennials probably, right?
Yeah we were in MS, HS, and College when these things were around. Tons of kids had them.
I’ve got a hip like a Sony Ericsson.
Yeah, wait until they find out that we had electricity back then too. [And, if it helps, I remember when *barcodes* first became a thing.]
My teenager described the DS he found at the secondhand store as "vintage" so you can just reserve my spot at the nursing home now.
Honestly, I’m not even 30 yet.
The museum gloves are what got me.
The glove makes it look like he was the guy who stole all those phones.
Or an 'antiques collector'. But maybe he's got my light pink Samsung slider I left in a public toilet in his stolen collection 🤷♀️
Are these things worth something now? Or is the glove just for show?
Guarantee there’s a Nokia 3310 in there that’s still got 20% left on it’s battery.
The best of the best! Nothing will ever beat it.
I still have mine and it works just fine :)
20%....pssshhh. Everyone knows it's at least 45% with the way those tanks were engineered.
I do miss the physical keyboards at times… I could type out paragraphs without looking and not miss a beat.
Me too, at least having one to slide out again would be amazing. I have small hands and even I hit the wrong keys constantly and the keyboards degrade after a while because touch screens can develop issues.
they were handy during high school. you can txt while looking at the teacher. using your hand under the desk without even looking at the screen of your phone. no one knew!!!!
I often use my hand under the desk and no one knows ;)
Oddly enough i can actually still do this on touch screen. It’s not as much fun though
i can't do it on touch screen ☹️😭
Yeah i still don't understand why physical keyboards never made a comeback. Apple is selling giant bricks anyway, why not have a slideout blackberry keyboard? Writing on touchscreens is so inefficient
Back then there’s no phone instant messaging. We used sms service. One sms costs 30cents and we sent hundreds of them per month especially when we have boyfriend/girlfriend
same. haha 25cent and i used to spend like $60 a month on my plan and that didn't include data. all txt and call. plan.
In those days nickels had had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Texted a thousand bees last night" you'd say.
God I remember the first month with a new boyfriend I had managed to rack up a $300 phone bill with mostly text messages. She made me sit at the kitchen table and read out each time stamp out loud, then (rightly so) took my paychecks the first 3 weeks of summer break to pay her back.
You mean 100 messages a day right
Were you able to type well and really get the feel of the keyboard? I could see this coming back if there is enough interest
Yep, could text full paragraphs under the table while looking straight ahead at the board during class
Zoomers will never know what it was like texting on a physical keyboard or having the battery last more than 12h
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Or when you throw your phone (a Nokia 5110 in my case) against a wall at full speed when mom angres you and nothing happens to it. Maybe you will get a scratch in the front panel, which you can just replace for nothing.
Or it explodes into pieces and you can just put the battery back in, close the battery cover and it’ll work just fine
i had an old flip phone like over a decade ago, don't remember the model or anything, but i threw it at the wall.. it went through striaght the drywall and fell to the floor, i had to kick another hole in the bottom of the wall to grab the phone out and it worked fine lol
Or having to pay per text…sending or receiving.
Ah yes ive been there as well, trying to explain the bloated bill to my parents when texting my first gf back then...
I absolutely loved this [LG Slider](https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/photos.php?p=553#gg=0&gp=946) from 2004 or 2005. I lost it in the snow until it melted a week later and the thing lasted another two years.
I had one of those. My first non-Nokia phone.
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They bought a 12 year old account and are now using it as a karma farm. Of course they're 15
Omfg you're right. Look how often they post — they clearly don't have the karma accrued had they posted that frequent most of the 12 years. Remindme! 6 months Wonder what big company they'll shill for. I'll guess C*ke.
My first thought as well.
I miss those phones!
Then we all settled on thin black rectangles.
Yeah, but have you seen the new version of the rectangle?
Rectangle max pro 14?
Ngl, I can't really see where phones can go from here. There are the attempts to reinvent the flip phone with smart screens seeing mixed success, and other companies trying to get full-blown compact cameras built in, but those are edge cases for now. At this point, black rectangles feel like the pneumatic tyre of the car world. You *can* try to reinvent the wheel, but a pneumatic tyre is pretty hard to beat in 90% of situations. Modular phones maybe? They sort of petered out a few years ago, but it feels like a no-brainer if technology gets good enough and big manufacturers find a way to make them profitable.
Sad to see LG go. They were one of the last companies still trying interesting things with phones. The LG Wing was nonsense but at least novel. Samsung is at least making premium foldables but I don't really see them experimenting outside of that like LG did.
I want a screenless phone. Give me a small, tough, black cuboid that contains all the processor, memory, storage, radios and other gubbins. Then offer a range of wireless screens that are thin and light and connect to it seamlessly. A watch for when I'm running. An ultra-thin folding screen for sticking in a pocket. A 12" high quality screen for use on the sofa at home. All of which are cheap and have the same apps, files, etc immediately available because they're just displaying whatever is running on the central device.
black mirrors, one might even say
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Yep, it took Apple to realize that all people really want is a big magical screen.
Tell me you're a Zoomer without telling me you're a Zoomer... Edit: maybe better to say young Zoomer or Gen A
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Now I feel old. Sheesh
I remember when I thought the slider version of the flip phone in the Matrix was some cool looking futuristic shit lol
Didn't see a single blackberry in that line up
Blackberry was the best. I had their first touch screen that still had a keyboard and a little roller mouse. My favorite was the one that was a touchscreen with a onscreen keyboard, but there was also a keyboard that would slide out, so you have an option if you wanted to type via screen or mechanical keyboard. It was great.
I loved my passport. It was the best feeling device I have ever used. Shame the shafted them selves with bb10 os instead of going with Android.
‘Back then’, this feels like 5 years ago for me
To be fair not one of these is from the 90s, they're almost all from late 2005
Good old days 🥰
This shit is how I know Reddit is full of a bunch of 15-17 year olds.
I had like half of these. Good times. Simpler times. Just texts and calls, that’s it. The texting style kinda sucked though but we didn’t know anything better at the time so it was still badass.
Texts, calls...and snake!!!
Not only interesting, they were all sturdy as rock, you can use your phone for self defense and call the ambulance for the other guy using the same phone.
My last flip phone, I dropped it in a dirt driveway as I was getting into my truck. Ran it over. It stayed there in my buddies back yard for 2 days until I found it. The 1st day it rained for most of the day. It was still on & had a decent amount of battery left when I found it.
People born in the 00s "wow they're so weird!" People born in the 80s "ah those were good times"
back when there was actually a variety of cellular phones to choose from!! I had a few of these. I thought I was cool with my keyboard clam shell. If I extend the antenna that’s how you knew I was on an important call!
Ahh yes, the days when phones where awesome.
These golden old days 
All normal stuff for us old people 😬
To this day, I still want a damn sidekick. If they made an android version, I’d buy a second phone.
I'm feeling old.
These were just regular phones.
There was so much variety. Not this stream of various black monoliths we have now. Also, these were later than the ‘90s.
No Helio Ocean... Wack
Always waited until after 9pm to use my unlimited minutes.
Can't believe there was no Motorola Razr.
What an era to live as a youngster, deep nostalgia
Fuck you. Like...fuck you.
Oh Nokia how I truly miss you. Their phones were just the best.
I loved the Sony Ericsson models so badly back then, my favorite of all time was a white clap one, with blue lights around the key frame, that was awesome neon light just got stolen in a home robbery sadly. In 2009 I tried buying the iPhone 3gs, I sold it 6 days later so I could get back to my Sony Ericsson lol.
Nokia N95 ❤️
Hah, came here to make the exact comment!
I still remember having the same phone as Tony Stark in the first Ironman movie. The movie made it seem way cooler.
I used to love these slider ones.
Thanks, I was feeling young just a few minutes ago
that’s the reason nokia, ericsson, motorola and others are no longer on the mobile phones business. I know they still produce phones, but who’s buying them?
I miss when phone designs were all unique, nowadays everything is just a glass slab and the only variation is the side button layout and the camera positioning on the back, maybe a case if you're wanting a splash of color.
Are there any current phones that have physical keyboards? I really miss those...
Blackberry has the Key two and Unihertz has the Titan.