Mobiele telefoons zijn niet meer uit ons leven weg te denken. Hoewel sommige mensen juist weer teruggaan van smartphone naar niet zo’n slimme telefoon, is het grootste gedeelte van de gebruikers heel blij met deze complete computer in de zak. Maar voordat we de iPhone en vergelijkbare toestellen ontdekten, was er een telefoongeneratie van een heel ander niveau. Heftige designs, de eerste camera’s, we verstuurden MMS’jes en de toetsenborden waren misschien wel beter dan ooit… Welke telefoons had en/of herken jij? 👇🏻
1. Gerry begint het draadje.
After the early bricks but before smartphones, there was a stretch where phone design went absolutely catshit bananas (1/?) pic.twitter.com/QWUF6K8dVF
— Gerry McBride (@GerryMcBride) November 13, 2022
2. Herken jij ‘m nog?
This thing was ideal for if you had to take photos of Russian documents while undercover in Moscow, also yes that is a tag on it like it’s a t-shirt pic.twitter.com/XGc302ubGk
— Gerry McBride (@GerryMcBride) November 13, 2022
3. Ojaaaa!
“People don’t like phones that flip anymore”
“OK… what if instead of it flipping, it PIVOTED”
“FUCK YEAH” pic.twitter.com/P5flEtK1Il
— Gerry McBride (@GerryMcBride) November 13, 2022
4. Het moest vooral lekker gek zijn en opvallen, niet per se functioneel.
I call this one the Shyamalan because of the unnecessary twist pic.twitter.com/QkZZsYOj5L
— Gerry McBride (@GerryMcBride) November 13, 2022
5. Wie had deze ook?
The LG Chocolate, my ultimate desire. The girl that sat next to me on the bus had one and everyday we’d play a garage band type app that let you make songs & ringtone on the phone! pic.twitter.com/10AeMCYsmm
— Amtrak™️ superfan (@becksreeves) November 14, 2022
6. Die ‘goeie ouwe tijd’ dat je telefoon nog kon vallen zonder meteen kapot te zijn.
You don’t know rugged if you didn’t own a Nokia 5210. The things me and my friends put this thing though: left it at the bottom of a pool, played rugby with, drove a car over it (quickly).
It never broke because of the genius design. pic.twitter.com/NA1qsW79iu
— T.Zondi (@EzeeT) November 14, 2022
7. Frontjes verwisselen van je telefoon was helemaal hot.
I had numerous Nokia phones but the 3200 was a tiny triumph plus I had the Shrek insert for added coolness lol pic.twitter.com/H2rBesN1J6
— Kristel Greer She/Her Sí/Í 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪 (@Krissy_Kurtsie) November 13, 2022
8. Dus daar sprong de telefoonindustrie op in met mooie designs.
It was a lovely solidly built phone, it was the last non iPhone I had. It had that mirror screen and was competing in the ‘girly phone’ market with the Nokia 7373. Before that I had the gorgeous shocking pink Motorola Razr pic.twitter.com/hnjpQ6pL4W
— Cathryn Fraser (@cathrynfraser) November 14, 2022
9. Hehehe.
Only real visionaries like Kelly Rowland got to road test that one
— Lauren Murphy, Numpty at large #La! (@discoagogo) November 14, 2022
10. Is wel zo.
The iPhone was a gamechanger in lots of ways but mainly in establishing a common de facto touchscreen design
Smartphones pre iPhone vs Smartphones post iPhone pic.twitter.com/rXxWGyRpih
— quadgoal (@quadgowl) November 14, 2022
11. En dat het dan voor geen meter werkte.
Not forgetting the Nokia 5800 Express that had the most unresponsive touch screen in 2010…. Stylus tho pic.twitter.com/GX6Lr0iwwJ
— Craig Bowden (@thatcrai) November 14, 2022
12. De eerste camera’s verschenen, maar dan kon je alleen een MMS versturen (en ook dat werkte nooit?!)
Nokia 6680 ; it had a forward facing camera *and* ran Symbian. A big pretty screen that was nonetheless not a touchscreen. pic.twitter.com/qKAud0O6Lt
— Mummypuffy (@mellopuffy) November 14, 2022
13. VET onhandig.
I had this thing. A phone that only worked with the headset. If the headset wasn’t plugged in you couldn’t answer or make a call. pic.twitter.com/uOX3t797JB
— Joshwa Saint James (@JoshwaStJames) November 14, 2022
14. Dit was pas een briljante functie.
The pinnacle for me was the Siemens CL75 ‘poppy’ phone. Nothing unusual about the design for this lil stone of a flip-phone, BUT
When you pressed a DEDICATED button on this femmest of phones, it turned off the backlight for you so you could… use the screen as a mirror. pic.twitter.com/DXNrfF67f9— Gonbezerk (@Gonbezerk) November 14, 2022
15. Wie niet?!
Can’t say anything. I had this for years. pic.twitter.com/sLJBl2JwDS
— Andy McCarroll (@Andymc1983) November 13, 2022
