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My razr. God I miss that phone.

The duck phone. The quack when you got a call was annoying, though.

And, yeah, I used to use one like that.

HTC One M8, hands down no questions. Curved aluminium back, front facing stereo speakers. Fits the hand like a well tailored glove.

There may be fancier looking phones out there, but nothing I've ever seen looked cooler.

LG Chocolate! I had the white one. It did everything I needed, supported custom ringtones, had paid ring back tones (remember those?), played music, etc. The best thing was being able to text with one hand while not having to look at what you’re typing. Hopefully it’s not nostalgia affecting me with this phone, but it ran flawlessly for years before I eventually upgraded to a Motorola Droid back in the day.

I miss fun phones. I can either have a folding slab, a black slab, or a different slab that comes in other colours. 🥲

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.

My Kyocera 6035 - Palm Pilot and cell phone, God I loved that beast. Yes it was one of the first smart phones but also that flip keypad to let you cover the writing block and all the other touches were the bee's knees.

The Samsung U600 was stylish as hell.

My old mate’s phone stuck with me for decades. Not sure if it’s pleasing but sure is something

The OG Motorola Razr was the most aesthetically pleasing phone I ever remember. Shit was like TOS Star Trek's communicator thingy.

Sony Ericsson J300i

My sister also had a Siemens M55, pretty fun phone at the time.

This was my favorite phone I've ever had. All metal case, big front facing speakers, slim form factor. Apparently according to this article the processor was bad and the camera wasn't great but I didn't notice or care. I never bothered with Bluetooth speakers with this thing because it sounded great and it was waterproof. It also had a radio tuner built in that you could use with wired headphones acting as the antenna which I used a surprising amount when waiting in places with poor cell service and at least once trying to get weather updates during a bad storm. I wish more phones went with just weird features like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_One_M9

Nokia Lumia series. It is a shame that they did not sell

Motorola g8 plus. The photos online do no justice, you need to hold the phone and see it. It had a shiny case, sort of metallic, sort of iridescent, it gave the impression of being made of thick glass over metal or something. The only phone I never wanted a case for, I only used transparent ones for it because nothing out there could look better than the phone itself.

If it weren't for a forced upgrade to 5g network in my country I'd still be using it.

Edit: here, I've made a gif of it. It still doesn't look as good. The camera doesn't get the change of color to purple, and the gradient from dark to light gets lost. The reflection on the surface also throw the camera off. But all that said, it's better than a still photo.

I really liked the palm pre. Fit well in the band and the slide out keyboard was awesome.

Dual slide helio ocean, t9 and hardware keyboard on different slide outs

The original HTC Incredible. Comparatively speaking, it was a very modern looking phone. The back was the thing that people noticed. It had a weirdly shaped battery cover back. The physical interface was pretty great and it included an optical cursor or whatever you want to call it.

![The Motorola rizr, perfect shape, the slide function felt really nice. I miss this phone sometimes]

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Gotta be the OnePlus 6.

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.

Motorola's Moto X, with the back being made of bamboo.

My old Motorola RAZR from the mid-aughts.

Man, this comment chain is nostalgic

Palm pre 2. Best phone I've ever had in my entire life.

I absolutely loved the look and feel of the essential ph-1. The ceramic back felt great in the hand (the few times I dared carrying it without a case). The size was perfect for me, and I personally found the notch less distracting than the hole punch camera.

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 think it was my old Nokia 6600

BlackBerry. Dang I miss them. They were business cool. Now I make due with a Unihertz Titan Slim. And hopefully they upgrade to a second one cause age is showing on mine.

I really liked my Siemens SX1

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

Pantech Vega Iron. Or maybe iPhone 5.

Adding to this again.

Ericsson T28/T39.