The popular Internet portal for gadgets and portable electronics Gagadjet.com has published the top ten, which includes the most stylish phones of the past.
Surely each of us at least once saw live one of the listed devices, and maybe was the happy owner of the miracle of technology of the early and mid-2000s. Even today, some of the phones presented in the stylish top ten still delight owners with their reliability.
These devices are not much like the best phones of 2012, but they still deserve attention and respect, since they reflect a certain stage of the evolutionary development of technology.
10. Nokia N95
- the world's first iconic smartphone, released in 2007. The original double-sided slider had a 5MP camera and Symbian S60 operating system. True, a few months later, the first iPhone appeared on the market, which changed our understanding of smartphones. But there is no denying the important pioneer role played by the stylish Nokia N95.
9. LG KG800 Chocolate
- a fashion device that LG designers have been working on for a long time. When folded, the slider resembles a chocolate bar. The control buttons illuminated in red, as well as the black gloss of the device's surface looked pretty impressive.
8. Sony Ericsson K750i
Is one of the most organic phones in history. The K750i still has fans who celebrate the convenient menu, good media player, camera and the ability to use multiple applications at the same time.
7. Sony Ericsson T610
- a stylish appearance, large screen and the ability to work in a talk mode up to 14 hours. For its time the phone was very advanced: Bluetooth, GPRS, IrDA, WAP-browser version 2.0. The layout of the joystick and keys, first used in the T610, then became the basis for many models from Sony Ericsson.
6. Motorola RAZR V3
- was published in 2004 and almost immediately was named one of the most stylish models on the market. True, the flagship was more of an appearance than a filling: miniUSB-port, VGA-camera, GRPS, video playback, MP3 ring tones, a phone book with 1000 cells.
5. Samsung S100
Is one of the most popular clamshells of the past. Among the characteristics are 300 kb of built-in memory for Java applications, a phone book for 500 names, 50 SMS messages in memory, GPRS Class 8, IrDA.
4. Nokia 6310
- released in 2002, it was positioned as a business-class phone. The device is equipped with GPRS, Bluetooth, IrDA, decent built-in memory. And among the applications was the famous "Snake" - the most popular mobile game of the past.
3. Ericsson R520
- the first phone of the past with Bluetooth functionality. The appearance of this silvery "brick" cannot be called stylish, but in terms of technical characteristics it was the flagship of 2002: GPRS, e-mail, WAP-browser, IrDA, phone book for 500 numbers, the ability to download monophonic melodies.
2. Siemens SL45
- a tiny device with an MP3-player and support for memory cards up to 32 MB, which for 2000 can be called a revolutionary breakthrough. The business segment model proved so popular that the SL45i was released a year later with Java and GPRS support.
1. Nokia 9210 Communicator
– the most stylish phone of the past... The unusual appearance hid a 4.5 ”screen with a resolution of 640 x 200 pixels. And the 32-bit processor with a frequency of 52 MHz was running Symbian OS v6.0. The communicator, released in 2000, had the ability to view documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF formats. By the way, it was Nokia that coined the term “communicator”.