Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 month ago
In that photo, does everyone else see the birth control phone in the upper right hand side of the pile? I remember the razr phone and the Nokia brick and the sidekick and all the weird little cell phones we used to have but…I’ve never seen that birth control phone.
Foreigner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not a Nokia and I can’t find that exact model but it seems there were a couple of weird round phones floating around in the early to mid 2000’s:
www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/c800 www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/xelibri-6 www.mobilephonemuseum.com/…/panasonic-g70
There were some other weird as hell designs around that period, like the ones in this article:
medium.com/…/nokia-made-some-of-the-weirdest-phon…
I recognise all but one of the phones in that link. The time just before smartphones was a weird moment in mobile phone history.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I just watched a video essay about design that talked about this, basically before the iPhone manufacturers were trying all kinds of crazy shit, after the iPhone it was black rectangles all around.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I think you did find it. Looks like that xelibri 6. What a weird, not convenient design.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Want people to think you’re on birth control but you’re not? Get the xelibri 6!
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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Oh shit I had this phone! It was cool. For the time. But the left side felt really flimsy when you opened it up.