The Experimental Phones of the 2000s...

why of all things did you make that the thumbnail

i miss when phones all looked different and everyone could actually pick something that it their vibe and use case

The 2000s sometimes feels like a fever dream.

I still remember being nine years old and watching teenage girls text their boyfriends on their BlackBerry phones, lol. I thought teenagers were so cool as a kid.

Nothing like opening up YouTube trying to decompress after work, and getting greeted with Sonic and Rainbow Dash swapping spit. Thanks man

i remember wanting a phone with a slide out keyboard so bad

I was the perfect age to experience the phones of the early 2000s. Old enough to dream of having one, but not old enough to actually be able to own one and realize how bad they were.

Didn't know you were so good at CGI. I've never seen a realistic phone like that floating in the background

Kids these days will never know the joys of learning to text quickly and accurately on a numpad

you absolute trickster... the suspended phone by the wire at 2:00 I had simply tuned out as "aha... bjiru has superimposed a gif of a rotating GW520 - how awesome" until you GRABBED IT you will rue the day mr schemes

I really miss these weird phones back in the day, but unfortunately I was poor and couldn't afford to buy

Blackberry was the pinnacle design, having a full physical qwerty keyboard and touch screen with trackball functionality was amazing.

I’m glad I was a teen back then and got to experience some of these phones. It was an unusual time of experimentation but also a beautiful time we will never see again.

I owned the N-Gage. I was so incredibly proud of that device, until it stopped working literally 1 month after I got it. I returned it to the shop and they wouldn't do anything. I also got the N95, which to this day was the most beautiful phone I ever owned. I dropped that down the toilet 2 weeks after buying it and that never worked again. I then got the 6600 which I still have in my draw today - and it works brilliantly. Toughest phone ever! Forget the 3310. The most comfortable phone I ever owned though was the Sony Ericsson K800i (James Bond edition). It was beautiful and so cosy, like an extension of my arm. Pressing those buttons felt wonderful. I used to just lay on the carpet when I was younger admiring its curvy design and smooth texture. Even today, I miss that phone.

I had a Samsung flip phone through Verizon that had a camera in the middle of the hinge that you could rotate to face you and turn outwards to take pictures. Samsung did selfies way before they were called that. It was my favorite

I know these were always meant as experiments, but i want to always live in an era where you can get phones, computers, etc. In any shape and style imaginable.

ah when phones actually had a personality of their own, i remember fondly the time i received my hand me down Nokia N95 8GB for my 10th birthday back in the day that i used all the way to 2012. good memories.

man you have such a friendly and fun way of being, it really makes the subjects you talk about entertaining to watch. instant sub

I graduated high school in 2005. I had like half of these phones lol. Around that time that was also super popular was the Boost mobile bleep bleep “where you at?” 2 way radio phone phase. My favorite phone was my blackberry storm or my LG chocolate. There were a few but there was NO better feeling than texting away on one of those and then calling someone and having that tactile feedback of hanging up on a call with the click, slide or flip of the phone. It was genuinely the best. I was 13 on New Years 2000 and around this time I think everyone got into the futuristic vibe. Like we thought by the year 2000 we’d have flying cars but we didn’t so everything was just made to look more futuristic through stuff like this.

I got to say I clicked because of the thumbnail, and I stayed for the content. your clickbait worked and the content was enjoyable. thank you.