Random Old Phones - Back to Home
Note: Sorry about the terrible photo quality. My basement is very dark, and the camera I took these photos with had broken autofocus.
I said in the previous article that the next page would be on desktop computers, but I'm still trying to finish up that project, so in the meantime, I decided to show off something I intended to feature over a year ago. Over the last 6 or 7 years, I've accumulated a bunch of old phones that family members or coworkers have gave me. Most of the phones do work, but they're missing batteries or changers, and as such, I can't show you what the user interfaces look like. Despite that, here's a slideshow of some of the more interesting ones I've acquired.
This is my grandmother's old Nokia 3595 brick phone from 2003. It's about as lackluster as you'd expect, but it does have a color screen.
Here's an odd one: the Samsung Nexus S. This was a smartphone created by both Samsung & Google in 2010. Google had a revolving door of different manufacturers making phones for the Nexus series, before it was discontinued in 2017.
These 2 oddly round Pantech slider phones are probably the ugliest phones I've ever seen.
All of these BlackBerry phones were all from my workplace, which was throwing them out. As far as I know, every single one is dead, which is unfortunate.
This HTC looks like an MP3 player, but apparently it's a phone. There's no model name anywhere on it, so I know very little about it.
And finally, here's the most unique phone I own: the Nokia 7705 Twist. It's a square phone with a slideout keyboard, plus a giant keychain hole right below the screen. I don't have the battery, so I can't use it, but there's this ancient YouTube video you can watch. The mid-late 2000s were a wild era for niche phones.
I'll likely be trashing or selling most of these phones soon, so I wanted to make an online archive of them before they disappear. I have the basement computer setup completely finished now, so I promise to finally return to desktop computers this month.