Personally I think the ZenPhone 9 series looked very sleek and cool - especially the in red colour choice.
And, yeah, I used to use one like that.
And you could knock a motherfucker out with one! Like in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis beats a pimp to death.
Ahh, classic style.
The duck phone. The quack when you got a call was annoying, though.
My razr. God I miss that phone.
The V3i, I paid full price for that phone when it came out. I modded that thing as much as I possibly could!
The only right answer. That bad boy was awesome.
Iconic. That flip open/snap shut feeling. Insanely thin at the time.
Yes! I had the candy bar version, the Slvr.
It scratched that cyberpunk itch.
I wish the current Razr smartphone series was also a book foldable instead of only clamshell foldable :(
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.
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.
The Nokia “fashion” line had some interesting designs
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.
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More phones should come with fabric flaps ‼️
The Samsung U600 was stylish as hell.
I had a Samsung phone not dissimilar to that. It was a brownish color, the D-pad was square not round, but probably had the same internals as that phone. It was tiny, maybe even slightly hard to text on because the 1, 2 and 3 keys were a little close to the slide, if the slide had another 3 or 4mm of travel it would have been an improvement. It had that garbage curved mirror near the camera lens for selfies.
BlackBerry passport in red. It’s still in my closet.
My old mate’s phone stuck with me for decades. Not sure if it’s pleasing but sure is something
Imagine typing a text message with that
Utter nightmare. It doesn’t even lit the available letters in the dark. It’s just bad
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.Palm pre 2. Best phone I’ve ever had in my entire life.
Man, this comment chain is nostalgic
I’m not sure I’d classify any phone I’ve had as visually appealing.
My S10e has that white bluepink back they put on them, but it’s spent its entire life in a silicone case.
I liked my LG EnV2. It might not have been an amazing looking thing but damn I liked the way it felt to use.
I really liked the palm pre. Fit well in the band and the slide out keyboard was awesome.
I think my current pixel 7 pro is probably the nicest looking smartphone I’ve owned. Prior to this it was the LG G3.
Back in the day I had some Motorola TracFone that looked a lot like a razr that I also thought looked pretty cool.
When my family switched from TracFone I got a Samsung Rogue which I also really liked, but I also remember wishing that my parents had waited a couple months so that I could have gotten my personal pick for the sexiest smartphone of all time instead- the original Motorola Droid. I eventually ended up getting the droid 2, which was, IMO, a fine successor to the droid, but just not as sexy.
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.