There’s something incredibly satisfying about the way phones were designed back in the early 2000s. Whether it’s the nostalgic effect for all of us 90s babies, the plethora of buttons, or perhaps the fact that you never feared dropping them down a flight of 500 stairs, those little (sometimes not-so-little) devices sure made our childhoods more interesting.
So let’s use a metaphorical time machine to look back on some intriguing designs that make us look at our reflective touch-sensitive blocks of technology with a sense of disdain, with us asking, “Where did it all go so wrong?”
If you’re curious to learn more about modern-vintage (not sure if that’s a category, but it should be!) phones, make sure to check out this Bored Panda article right here. Don’t forget to vote for your favorites, dearest Pandarandas, and let’s get this phone rolling!
#1 My Grandma Gave Me This Old Phone Today As A Housewarming Gift. It Quacks When It Rings. I Was Terrified Of It When I Was A Child, So That’s Why She Gave It To Me
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#2 Found My Old Cell Phone With Optional Clip On Chatboard For Easier Texting
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#3 Motorola Startac Rainbow
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#4 Motorola Flipout Mb511
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#5 Simens SK65
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#6 Siemens Xelibri 8
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#7 Nokia 7600
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#8 Cool Old-School Crank Phone At My Work
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#9 Motorola Aura A Premium Phone
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#10 Nokia N-Gage
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#11 Samsung Serenata
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#12 Nokia 7380
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#13 I Finally Got An Xperia Pureness
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#14 The Nokia 3650. First Phone With A Video Camera. It Helped Establish Symbian Os In The Consumer Market
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#15 This Old Jaguar Still Has Its Car Phone
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#16 2003 Nokia 6810. An Unbelievable 71 Individual Buttons On A Handset This Size
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#17 Motorola V100
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#18 Samsung Sph-N270
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#19 My Beautiful Motorola V50. In The Dark Gray Color, Which I Think Looks Best. Great Phone, Very Small, Compact, Has Great Range, And It Still Works On 2g Networks
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#20 Siemens Xelibri
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#21 My Old Phone Has This Unusual Button
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#22 I Found So Many Old Phones While Decluttering My Grandpa’s Office
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#23 Two-Faced Samsung
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#24 Nokia N-Gage
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#25 Ericsson T60d. Limited Edition Spider-Man Version
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#26 Samsung Dual Flip
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#27 Newgen C620
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#28 Toshiba G450. The Weird Little Phone
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#29 The Year Was 2010. I Was Being Handed Down This Phone From My Brother. Suddenly I Felt Like The Coolest Kid In the Class. This Is My LG KU990i
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#30 Samsung Serene
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#31 Introducing My 2009 Samsung Gloss Sch-U440
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#32 Sierra Wireless Voq
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#33 During The ’90s Motorola Service Centers Offered “Express Exchange” Loaner Phones To Customers While Their Phones Were Out For Repair
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#34 Virgin Mobile Lobster 700tv
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#35 This 20-Year-Old “Modern-Looking” Landline Phone
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#36 Motorola 308 Startac
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#37 This Is The Google Sooner, Which Is A Prototype For The First Android Phone. It Runs A Super Early Version Of The Android
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#38 Fly Z300
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#39 Nokia 7700
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#40 Nokia E90
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#41 I Still Like My Nokia 9110 Communicator
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#42 Nokia 5510
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#43 Motorola StarTac 6000e
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#44 My Old Mobile Phone Is Cool. Samsung P300 From 2005
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#45 My Phone’s Battery And Main PC’s HDD Both Started Failing At The Same Time, So I’m Relying On These Two A Lot More For The Time Being
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#46 Sidekick II
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#47 My Old High School Cell Phone And The Phone I Got After It
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#48 Samsung P910 TV
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#49 Sch-V870
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#50 Nokia 9210
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