Personally I think the ZenPhone 9 series looked very sleek and cool - especially the in red colour choice.
I’m not sure I’d classify any phone I’ve had as visually appealing.
My S10e has that white bluepink back they put on them, but it’s spent its entire life in a silicone case.
I liked my LG EnV2. It might not have been an amazing looking thing but damn I liked the way it felt to use.
I really liked the palm pre. Fit well in the band and the slide out keyboard was awesome.
Had hand-me-down iPhone 4s that I thought wasz THE shit design wise . Modern phones aping it’s lꝏk now and am glad for it !
Still have that phone , but unusable bcus forgor apple credentials for it
The OG Motorola Razr was the most aesthetically pleasing phone I ever remember. Shit was like TOS Star Trek’s communicator thingy.
![The Motorola rizr, perfect shape, the slide function felt really nice. I miss this phone sometimes]
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Pantech Vega Iron. Or maybe iPhone 5.
Gotta be the OnePlus 6.
Pff, love my 7 pro. Not having that holepunch looks soo pleasing. I wish I could find a morern phone witht that.
Samsung Galaxy S3. It was my first phone with a large touchscreen; everything before that was a flip phone, or one where half the phone slides away to reveal a full keyboard.
I think the iPhone 5s would be the one that fits the question IMO.
Maybe I am a bit biased as I want to get a OnePlus Nord 4 (although I will better wait for the 5th) but I really like its design, and the design is like the last thing I care about a phone 😅 (I always end up setting a cheap screen protector and a cheap case).
Motorola’s Moto X, with the back being made of bamboo.
Sony Ericsson J300i
My sister also had a Siemens M55, pretty fun phone at the time.
Dual slide helio ocean, t9 and hardware keyboard on different slide outs
I loved my Nokia 7380 art deco phone. It had a screen hidden behind a mirror surface, a rotary dial instead of buttons and even a little fabric flap like a pair of jeans or something. It was so widely different to anything else out there. I wish it still worked on contemporary wireless services, but alas. It was a pain to text on but with voice messages becoming a thing, it didn’t matter too, too much. I would probably go back if I could.
More phones should come with fabric flaps ‼️
Yes! When I saw this post the Nokia 7380 was instantly where my mind went. I had the exact same phone, it was rad.
I remember at the time it was referred to as a “lipstick style” case. Loved that thing. I still have it in a box of old electronics somewhere, been thinking about digging it out and seeing if I could get it working again but assumed it wouldn’t on the current cellphone frequencies. I stopped using it when I got the original iPhone at release, so that was 18 years ago I guess. Haven’t not had an iPhone of some variation since.
The simplicity of it is what I always loved about the form factor. Yeah, it sucked for texting but maybe I shouldn’t be writing long texts nowadays anyway. It was fine if you are just replying with a couple words to a text. That reflective one way mirrored screen, real leather and simplicity of the buttons was a great mix of form and function for me at the time.
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The Nokia “fashion” line had some interesting designs
The Samsung U600 was stylish as hell.
I had a Samsung phone not dissimilar to that. It was a brownish color, the D-pad was square not round, but probably had the same internals as that phone. It was tiny, maybe even slightly hard to text on because the 1, 2 and 3 keys were a little close to the slide, if the slide had another 3 or 4mm of travel it would have been an improvement. It had that garbage curved mirror near the camera lens for selfies.
The duck phone. The quack when you got a call was annoying, though.
