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That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In that photo, does everyone else see the birth control phone in the upper right hand side of the pile? I remember the razr phone and the Nokia brick and the sidekick and all the weird little cell phones we used to have but…I’ve never seen that birth control phone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Not a Nokia and I can't find that exact model but it seems there were a couple of weird round phones floating around in the early to mid 2000's:

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/c800

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/xelibri-6

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/panasonic-g70

There were some other weird as hell designs around that period, like the ones in this article:

https://medium.com/@samworldpeace/nokia-made-some-of-the-weirdest-phones-ever-a7e3412fa0c0

I recognise all but one of the phones in that link. The time just before smartphones was a weird moment in mobile phone history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you did find it. Looks like that xelibri 6. What a weird, not convenient design.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Want people to think you're on birth control but you're not? Get the xelibri 6!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I just watched a video essay about design that talked about this, basically before the iPhone manufacturers were trying all kinds of crazy shit, after the iPhone it was black rectangles all around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:2000/format:webp/1*PBXghb0XY5LEXJ-xhTDobQ.png

Oh shit I had this phone! It was cool. For the time. But the left side felt really flimsy when you opened it up.