14 Cell Phones You Probably Didn’t Know About Design

The first cell phones were marketed in the 80s and, since then, technology has not stopped advancing. But, in addition to technology, one of the aspects that gained prominence was design. Manufacturers continued to develop new models, always looking for the perfect device. And they did it thinking about the most varied types of shapes, colors and sizes. When a new model was approved by the company’s product development areas, it was quickly put up for sale, which, little by little, made the market fill with novelties.

Today the awesome.club brings you 14 cell phones with designs very different from those we are used to. Let’s see if you’ve had any of them.

This is an image of a Haier mobile phone, model P7. The strangest thing about him are the measurements, as his inspiration was a pen. It was 15 cm long, 2.7 cm wide and 1.82 cm thick.

Samsung’s Bang & Olufsen Serenata model was considered one of the best speaker phones of its time; its design contained a stand, a memory of 4 GB and, of course, a speaker. The problem was writing down the number of the caller. Doing so was nearly impossible, as was texting.

The Motorola Blackflip had a touchscreen, a QWERTY keyboard, and a small touchpad on the back, which helped improve the system’s accessibility.

The Xelibri 6 cell phone, branded Siemens Mobile, was part of a second line of the company called “Fashion Extravaganza”. The cell phone was created by a very famous designer at the time, George Appling, and thought of as a fashion accessory. However, it was not very successful because, despite being aesthetically beautiful, it did not have very advanced technology.

The YotaPhone 2 mobile phone has two screens, one on the front, the main one, and one on the back, with electronic ink, and it has applications that improve its performance; when it reaches 15% battery, it is possible to activate only the secondary screen and extend the use to 8.5 hours. Also, an interesting function is being able to place a map on the back while the main screen is used normally.

Nokia’s 7600 model is unique, mainly because of its shape and size. It was also designed by the fashion industry and has a very wide range of cases. These days, it can be found in second-hand stores and is still worth a lot of money.

The Sprint Kyocera Echo is designed to have two functional displays; that is, they say it is the first smartphone double screen. They could be used in four ways: tablet mode, in which two screens formed only one image; optimized moto, where each screen showed something different; Simul-Task mode, where each screen showed a different application, and single-screen mode, where the screens were folded on top of each other.

The Motorola V70 cell phone was launched in 2002 and what stood out most about it was the designwith a portion of the screen that rotated.

The Samsung SPH-N270 cell phone, or Matrix, was released along with the movie Matrix Reloaded. However, it was not designed for everyday use, but for fans of the movie to have a rare and high quality collector’s piece.

At first glance, the Samsung P300 might seem like a small calculator. However, it was a fully functional cell phone, weighed only 81 grams and was quite complete for the time.

The Sony Ericsson F100i, also known as the Sony Ericsson Jalou, is designed for women. The most interesting thing about it is that when it’s closed and the main screen is inactive, it turns into a mirror.

The Nokia 7280 was known as a “lip pencil”. When inactive, the screen turned into a mirror; moreover, it had no keyboard and functioned as a Navi-Spinner🇧🇷 It was part of Nokia’s “Fashion Phone” line.

Kin was a line of smartphones from Microsoft designed for social networks. The most different thing about the device is the direct access to social networks, thanks to the company Danger inc. (creator of marketplaces for apps later popularized on Android and iOS). However, just six weeks after its release, its production was canceled because it did not show the expected sales results.

The Samsung Juke had the same features as a stick-style MP3 player of the time, but you only had to remove the top and the phone’s functions would appear. So it was a good way to combine the two devices: mobile and MP3.

Have you had any of these cell phones? Would you like them to be marketed again? Tell a story about your first cell phone.