Alright, I'm doing it! I'm comitted! Welcome to the series of chosts where I'll be sharing my favourite cell phone designs from (approximately) the '00s. Coming to you from a place where, at that time, portable consoles were some mythical unaffordable devices, and everyone played whatever java game they could run on whatever phone they had, and browsing through mobile phone catalogues was something exciting.
And I just have to start with a company that to me personally was the coolest mobile phone brand — Nokia.
Nokia 1100 — I first saw this phone in 2004 when a lot of kids already had colored displays and polyphonies in their devices, but somehow everyone wanted to borrow this particular phone from a kid at the summer camp. First, it had a fancy flashlight on top of its case, but most importantly it had Space Impact+ there, and it probably was one of the coolest pre-installed mobile games ever, right?
Nokia 2300 — I always loved this design and this particular color scheme, and was choosing between this phone and Nokia 3220 when I was supposed to get a new phone on my birthday, but, unfortunately for 2300, 3220 was winning by all parameters...
Nokia 3100 — it's semi-transparent, the case has glow-in-the-dark lines, and it has a nice OutRun clone pre-installed on it. Beautiful.
Nokia 3220 — my precious unfoldable baby. T__T
I filmed my first stop-motion videos on it, recorded favourite songs from Ragnarok Online with its audio recorder to later set these noisy abominations as my ringtones, browsed WAP websites, and played so many pirated java games on it... If you have seen this phone before, you probably already know why choose it in the first place, hehe. But also I regret never getting this awesome case for it... Anyway, it was my only phone for more than 8 years. It looks like this now. -___-"
Nokia 7280 — a legendary cell phone that so many people crave, but that is either very expensive (I saw listings going up to 400$ for a used phone in a very good condition), or simply hard to find. Bring back lipstick phones!!
Nokia 7370 — you've probably seen the golden variant before, but I think the wooden one looks even more interesting? But then they also made the superior version of this phone?? I honestly think cotton tags should be on every phone now. And also I have to admit that I've never experienced the joy of opening a 180 degree spin slider phone... т___т
Nokia 7380 — again, bring back lipstick phones! This phone's whole front side is a mirror, which is... more practical than smartphones' black mirrors? I wonder what kind of experience was using this phone daily...
Nokia 7600 — such an interesting keyboard layout! Wish I had seen it irl and held it in my hands...
Nokia Asha 210 — I had to include this phone model, even though it's technically not a '00s phone. I don't think I've ever seen any Nokia Asha phone in our local stores, but I feel like I would be obsessed with it because of at least 2 factors: very fun color choices and a full qwerty keyboard without it being a slider (something that I completely missed out on).
These are all the cool '00's Nokia phones that I could think of. Please share yours, too!
Next time I'm going to cover... hmm... probably several phone brands at once.
