Going Down the Memory Lane with Nokia

After its acquisition by Microsoft, Nokia phones have become a history. However, in the past decade, this phone maker, has seen its glorious times and have made some outstanding devices. With that, the company has also manufactured and showcased few devices, which completely boggled our mind. Here are the phones which were technologically advanced at the time they were launched but simultaneously amazed us with its weird features, shape, size, etc.

Nokia 7600

Nokia 7600

Nokia 7600 was primarily launched as a fashion statement. Due to the weird shape and inconvenience caused due to it made the users turn away from it. The buttons were also located on the either side of the screen. As a result, operations weren’t very friendly.

Nokia N-Gage

Nokia N-Gage:

Nokia N-Gage was mainly launched for gamers who preferred to take gaming anywhere they went. In the era when keys of the phone were neatly arranged below the screen, this phone featured keys on both the sides of the screen. The highlight of the phone was placing of the speaker and mic. The phone had to be held side-ways to speak. Well, it looked a little inconvenient but it seemed the users enjoyed it!

Nokia 7700

Nokia 7700:

You may not know this device. It was announced in 2003 but it never came in the market. Its release was cancelled in 2004. Like N-Gage, this phone too featured side-talking. Additionally, it was bulky too. With so many weird features, may be, the company was unsure of its success.

Nokia N59

Nokia N 95:

The N 95 belonged to the N-series, which were once popular for being technologically advanced. Weird feature about this phone was its sliding nature. When, most of the sliding phone slid in one direction, this device slid both ways uncovering different set of keys.

Nokia 888

Besides these phones, which were commercially launched, Nokia had also presented concept phones such as Nokia Morph and Nokia 888. It might be that these sci-fi resembling gadgets weren’t practical enough or on the hand the market wasn’t ready for such a futuristic phone. Who knows? All things said, Nokia surely did influence the future of mobile designing.

Got any old Nokia phone? Do share your thoughts and memories.