Dozen Ugliest Cell Phones

[boredandtattooed]

this was my first phone ever, hand me down from my sister, who was in contruction...... it was a pickup-and-go, hell yeah i rocked that Brick, me and Zach Morris LMAO



****shown in actual size, not really, but close LOL

they should have a law against phones like this. were they really thinking they would make money out of it? lol

[monkeyboy]

The earliest Smartphones ran PalmOS, first the pdQ from Qualcomm, which was pretty ugly. But I thought the early series from Samsung were particularly fugly, the i300 and i330.


However, note the touchscreen-ONLY dialpad... something that was hated then, but of course now, accepted by milliions of HTC and Apple customers.


The successor, the i500, in contrast, was a wonderful PalmOS smartphone, both in function and in form (it was a flipphone... too bad no more smartflips these days... the last credible one from HTC was the StarTrek/3125).

[codybear]

I would rock one of those phones. hahaha.
It'd be funny.
haha.

My friend had a motorolla one of the one in the pic above,
and I couldn't find anywhere that would actually give it service. lmfao.
I was excited to get it to work.haha.
I was going to go to parties and pimp it with that phone.

Originally Posted by monkeyboy

The earliest Smartphones ran PalmOS, first the pdQ from Qualcomm, which was pretty ugly. But I thought the early series from Samsung were particularly fugly, the i300 and i330.


However, note the touchscreen-ONLY dialpad... something that was hated then, but of course now, accepted by milliions of HTC and Apple customers.


The successor, the i500, in contrast, was a wonderful PalmOS smartphone, both in function and in form (it was a flipphone... too bad no more smartflips these days... the last credible one from HTC was the StarTrek/3125).

funny how times change and how one thing is hated back then,
and is not only acceptable now, but loved. haha.

[Rabid_Gypsy]

I got a Sony-Ericsson T206 back in the day that looked great in pictures but when you got the phone it was crap, the buttons got smaller as you went down and it was such a weird shape to hold

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

this was my first phone ever, hand me down from my sister, who was in contruction...... it was a pickup-and-go, hell yeah i rocked that Brick, me and Zach Morris LMAO



****shown in actual size, not really, but close LOL

I bought three of those brand new back in the day (the Motorola version)

Those things where so tough you could have used one as a framing hammer....

We sold cell phones in my business & the Motorola rep used to take one of those bricks & literally throw it across an asphalt parking lot to show how indestructable it was (try that with any HTC phone). That demo phone looked like it had been around since WWII. It was all dented & gouged up, the screen was almost unreadable but the damn thing worked perfectly..........

~John

[jmorton10]

By the way, the very first cell I ever saw back then came built into a hard shell Samsonite type briefcase. Inside the case was a handset with a coiled cord like a landline & the entire rest of the case was battery. The thing weighed something like 75 lbs, cost something like $1.50 a minute to use & ALL it did was make & receive calls period.

~John

[Rabid_Gypsy]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

By the way, the very first cell I ever saw back then came built into a hard shell Samsonite type briefcase. Inside the case was a handset with a coiled cord like a landline & the entire rest of the case was battery. The thing weighed something like 75 lbs, cost something like $1.50 a minute to use & ALL it did was make & receive calls period.

~John

My uncle used to have one like that when I was a kid, he owned his own consulting firm and was a nerd. He had the first Commodore 64 I ever saw too!

[jmorton10]

This is kinda funny, some guy I knew had one of those early ones. He didn't really have any legit use for it, he just thought he was cool with it back when nobody else had a cell phone.

To break his balls, we would find out his phone # & call him all hours day & night & hang up when he answered. He would go crazy because every call cost him $1.50.

He must have changed his # 20 times, but a guy I knew worked for Cell One & everytime he changed it this guy would give up his new #...........

~John