Remember when mobile phone design got really, really weird?

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Remember when mobile phone design got really, really weird?
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We kind of... miss these?

Smartphone design is nothing if not predictable these days. The iPhone 14 looks exactly the same as the iPhone 13, which looked almost exactly the same as the iPhone 12, which looked – you get the idea.

What about before? People tend to remember the time before smartphones as a world of brick phones like the Nokia 3310 – but there was a strange wilderness between these eras when thing went a little... weird. And now, Twitter is digging up some of the strangest phone designs to grace the mid-naughties.

After the early bricks but before smartphones, there was a stretch where phone design went absolutely catshit bananas pic.twitter.com/QWUF6K8dVFMost of these phones really don't appear to have been designed with a normal hand in mind. From square bodies to things that flip in all sorts of directions they shouldn't, there's a catalogue of design crimes on offer here. And almost all of them come courtesy of Nokia. Check out some of the weirdest examples below.

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