When the designer broke away: unusual push-button phones of the zero are discussed on the Web

Twitter has a new interesting thread. In it, journalist Jerry McBride recalled a strange intermediate era in the history of the development of phones, when from manufacturers of the same type of bricks have not yet switched to smartphones of the same type and did what they did much

In the comments, the initiative was quickly picked up, so it turned out to be a whole thread of strange gadgets. Some of them passed through the hands of the authors, while others in those years were remembered as something ridiculous. We chose the most interesting specimens.

1. The perfect example of a strange phone: all the necessary elements are in place, but it looks as atypical as possible.

2. Looks like a wiretap gadget from a spy movie. It also has a tag on it, just like on a T-shirt.

3. At some point, Nokia had to develop a phone for people who could not master the T9.

4. “I feel like calling it Shyamalan because of the completely unnecessary twists and turns.”

5. Is it a shark phone or just a highly ineffective weapon?

6. Looks like something from Halo.

7. At first it looks like a regular phone, and then you realize that something is missing. The middle row of keys, for example.

8. “I remember running to the store to buy a Sony Xperia X10 Mini. But it turned out that it was literally too small to be used normally, ” AndyWray50

9. “I can't believe no one has mentioned the Motorola Flipout. It was a funny model!” — cubcurtavius

10. “I had a Nokia 2300, a nice phone. The design wasn't particularly exotic, but every time I gave it to someone, people couldn't figure out the keyboard. I don’t understand how the society coped with more non-standard models in this thread, ”- thisisathingido

11. “I worked at Motorola in the early 2000s and was the proud owner of this thing.” ahsurelookat

12. “I had such a beast. The cover rotated on two axes, and the keys used E-ink to change the inscriptions depending on the orientation of the screen. ClwnPrncCharlie

13. “The strange category can be attributed to any phone that Siemens released under the Xelibri fashion brand,” — Centaur Parcs

And what phones with a strange design do you remember? Share your nostalgia in the comments!