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Mobile phones are an essential part of our lives today and it seems impossible to think about a life without them. Life seems easier with them in our hands; we communicate, access information, learn, take pictures, pay bills, buy things and do a whole lot with them.

The existence of mobile phones dates back and it has continued to evolve into the smartphones we have today. Long before the modern Smartphone revolution (the Androids and iPhones), there were cell phone companies that pioneered the early revolution by introducing the world to mobile phones.

It's Throwback Thursday, Let's remind ourselves of some of the brands that rang bell in the 2000s

1.Motorola: : The Brand, Motorola started the mobile phone era. Being the company that launched the first mobile phone in 1973, Its bestselling Motorola RAZR V3 was launched in 2003, one mobile phone that can be considered a style statement first and a communication device.

2.Sony Ericsson : Sony Ericsson was a force to reckon with in the days for its good camera and spectacular audio quality. The brand introduced its first real handheld mobile phone in1987, the HOTLINE pocket.

3.Siemens: This brand was a renowned brand of mobile phones in the 2000s with a wide range of stylish and sophisticated phones with its Siemens S10 as the world’s first mobile phone with a colour display.

4. LG: LG was an emerging mobile phone brand in the 2000s offering stylish and innovative phones, the LG chocolate was one of its popular classic for its unique features.

5. HTC: stands out as the manufacturer that launched the first commercially available smartphone to run android

6.Blackberry: This brand was iconic in the 2000s for its unique features; a physical keyboard, email on the go, and secure messaging. It had a reputation of handsets that defined the business class, launched on 19 Jan 1999 with the release of the Blackberry 850.

7.Nokia: The history of mobile phones can never be complete without Nokia, Nokia is arguably one of the most iconic mobile phone brands of all time with quite a number of classics. The Finnish phone manufacturer has lots of iconic devices to its credit, with its super durable and popular Nokia 3310.

There you have them! 7 Top Iconic Brands of Old.
So let us know, which of these brands did you use back in the days.

Or which brand will you rather have us put on this list?

Nokia's dominance between 2004 and 2015 needs to be studied.

Elite dominance

I used all the phones till blackberry porshe level. Sold it when sapa came .I sold a whole blackberry porshe for 80k.fuc k

2cribz:
I used all the phones till blackberry porshe level. Sold it when sapa came .I sold a whole blackberry porshe for 80k.fuc k

later use the money buy loud..

One of the phones I regretted buying back then was Motorola razor, the Bluetooth was slow like snail.

Fond memories

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HTC as a brand is legendary.

What about Sagem?

Tecno, Infinix, Itel haff taken over 🤷

Those unbranded Chinese phones with loud speaker ain't listed😫

Where Sagem...Even Samsung was competing too. Samsung blue eye.

Op, add pictures.


Where's Samsung tru-i?

Classic. iPhone is the best

Silver bird nko
Neck3

I will like to hear how Igbo people will pronounce all the brands..








Like they pronounce "ITEL" as "aateeh"

Nostalgic

Mine was Sony Ericsson

Wow

Gabamose4r:
Ndjdjd

You wọn 5m yesterday and you dey nairaland today?







Funny Igbo guy

Started with Sagem, then cruised Black Berry Z10 for 10 years. Nice phone.

Where samsung with blue back cover and mini antenna??

id4sho:
Tecno, Infinix, Itel haff taken over 🤷

Those unbranded Chinese phones with loud speaker ain't listed😫

If the phone dey ring tha year, the owner go dey struggle to pick sharp sharp before people go notice.
and the thing no go gree pick sometimes..

My first phone was Sendo X, then Nokia 7600, HTC HD before moving on to the Samsung series starting from Galaxy S2.

Where's sagem and Trium.

I miss HTC

Where is Sagem myX5??

Trium?

SAGEM

That number 4 sha 👀

This Samsung follow too.

Remove LG and HTC, include Alcatel, Sagem and Trium.

Hshs

HTC was my first android phone