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Nokia
Nokia was a Finnish company that made crazy looking cell phones back in the 1990s and early 2000s; it was the number one cell phone company back then. Formally it probably still exists but not practically, it died around the year 2010.
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For zoomers and young kids it has to be noted Nokia was one of the crazies guys back then, the richness of their phones and creativity in design was absolutely above any boring soulless Apple shit that came later, Nokia phones were just colorful, wildly different in shape, style and "personality", they even hilariously experimented with things like placing buttons all over the device, at a time when ergonomics of buttons was important for typing and already somewhat established, it was as if the designers were smoking something. This was back at the time when corporations still occasionally showed a bit of true creativity. Of course that is not to say corporations were ever net good, but they sometimes shat out something cool, unlike today. In fact Nokia probably died exactly for the reason that it was not afraid to experiment and create something cool, it just died to Apple which plays it safe and keeps selling the same phone over and over -- exactly as capitalism intended it.
{ IMHO the peak of Nokia was 6600, I've never seen such beautiful design, AND it was such a high tech device back them, unreachable to normal people. Just the idea of having a real computer with an operating system in a pocket, with games, even a camera, that was absolutely unreal. I wanted it more than anything else really. It was also nice to compare it to the biggest competition Siemens SX1, that was a great device too. ~drummyfish }
{ Also I remember I was once kicked out of a cell phone shop because they had 6600 there for customers to try out and I was spending hours playing some LOTR games on it xD I remember it like today, it gave me a bit of a trauma, think it contributed to my social anxiety. ~drummyfish }