Evolution of cell phones

The Evo­lu­tion of Cell Phones — I’ve long had the idea to write a long post about all the phones I’ve owned. The evo­lu­tion of cell phones is in my pocket.

Just recent­ly real­ized that I and our gen­er­a­tion have been for­tu­nate enough to wit­ness how cell phones have become a pub­licly avail­able boon to civ­i­liza­tion and how inter­est­ing­ly they have evolved and what they have come to.

Evolution of cell phones

Per­son­al­ly, I remem­ber with great warmth those times when phones had but­tons and had very diverse designs, this time, alas, is gone forever.

So here we go :)

Siemens M35i

First phone is like a first kiss :) i was in 7^th grade at the time and it was the beau­ti­ful year 2001.

• Com­pact size
• Rub­ber­ized case
• Cool col­ors

I don’t know why, but at first I was even a lit­tle shy to take out my phone in front of my classmates.

I remem­ber a very inter­est­ing moment relat­ed to my first phone — once, right after I had just got this phone, I went for a walk and my moth­er called me and asked me to buy sug­ar. It seems to be a com­mon sit­u­a­tion nowa­days, but then I real­ized that life will nev­er be the same again.

Let’s move on!

Siemens SX1

• Unique design
• Good cam­era
• Mem­o­ry card support
• Good sound in headphones

Of course, I did­n’t real­ly real­ize at that time how much of a great device I had in my hands.

On this phone was a very cool AR game — on the image from the cam­era super­im­posed mos­qui­toes and they had to shoot. For that time it was a mind blow­ing experience.

Next, some­thing went a lit­tle wrong.

Nokia 5210

• Unique inter­change­able case design
• Water and shock protection
• Snake game

I may not remem­ber the exact order and I had this phone before the SX1, but nonethe­less it fits my eter­nal desire to have some­thing unusu­al in terms of looks and device.

This phone had a rub­ber­ized body (like the Siemens M35i), and it also had a unique case chang­ing mech­a­nism — the phone body lit­er­al­ly came apart in two pieces like a shell, and inside was the main body of the phone that could be tak­en out and stuffed into a new case of a dif­fer­ent color.

At some point I real­ly want­ed to play games. To be more pre­cise, I was already active­ly play­ing games in col­lege while sit­ting on blue­tooth, for exam­ple Bomber­man. But it was very incon­ve­nient on the SX1, and when one of my class­mates bought a sec­ond N‑Gage — every­thing was solved :).

Nokia N‑Gage QD

Anoth­er bright rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the evo­lu­tion of cell phones in my pocket.

• Games, games and again games via bluetooth
• Of course, unique design
• Con­ve­nient text messaging

Great phone and not just for games, just a con­ve­nient for­mat for typ­ing mes­sages for exam­ple, then it was rel­e­vant, hel­lo, ICQ.

Next I have some trou­ble remem­ber­ing exact­ly which phones I used, but I’ll try. The sequence may vary a lit­tle bit.

In gen­er­al, it was a peri­od of ques­tion­ing and down­shift­ing about phones as I had bet­ter things to do and more inter­est­ing things to do :)

Nokia 1100

• Flash­light
• Good price
• Com­fort­able in hand

Great phone with­out frills, very com­fort­able, if my mem­o­ry serves me cor­rect­ly I had two of them.

Nokia 7700 prism

That’s how my love for clamshells began. Very nice and styl­ish lit­tle clamshell, I used it just a lit­tle bit, I remem­ber a very unusu­al feel­ing of it in my hands.

• Styl­ish design
• Pleas­ant­ly lies in the hand
• Good price

And then there was a rev­o­lu­tion, or rather the evo­lu­tion of cell phones with­in the frame­work of one sin­gle per­son, i.e. me!

The evolution of cell phones — a new stage!

Here begins a new stage of my story.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

• The flag­ship of its time
• Nice Android shell from Sony
• Good sound in headphones

This phone opened for me the world of Android in all its glo­ry, I remem­ber my admi­ra­tion when I just start­ed to under­stand what is hap­pen­ing with the world of smart­phones and where it all goes to.

I suc­cess­ful­ly lost my first android on the way to work and had to down­shift again.

I had some replace­ment phone, but I don’t remem­ber it, some­thing very sim­ple with buttons.

Then I bought myself a …

BenQ-Siemens EF81

• Met­al case
• Two screens
• Swivel­ing cam­era mechanism.

… and my love for clamshells has only got­ten stronger.

An inter­est­ing phone with a key­board from Motoro­la RAZR V3, par­tial­ly met­al body, two screens and an unusu­al mech­a­nism of rotat­ing cam­era — when the phone is open the cam­era as if becomes self­ies, and when closed, as the main cam­era with a viewfind­er on the sec­ond display.

I still have this phone lying around some­where and it works perfectly.

Well, and then I got a phone in my hands, which is still the most favorite of all that I had and I used it for the feel­ing longer than all the others.

It’s an android con­vert­ible for the Chi­nese market.

Sharp SH7228U

• Incred­i­ble design and Japan­ese quality
• Sec­ond screen with e‑ink
• Swiv­el mech­a­nism with touch screen
• Great cam­era (mov­able lens inside the body)

Despite the fact that this phone was still Chi­nese, but it was made more along Japan­ese lines.

It was so well, qual­i­ta­tive­ly and reli­ably assem­bled that I could not believe it for a long time — a huge flip-out with a rotat­ing screen, I always thought that one day the screen would just fall off, but it was so well made that after many years, it did not even become a lot of backlash.

Of course, this phone even at the time of pur­chase was already tech­ni­cal­ly obso­lete — a very old ver­sion of Androde quick­ly stopped sup­port­ing appli­ca­tions one by one.

Fool­ish­ly I once broke the SIM card tray and gave the phone to the ser­vice, in the end they could not fix it there and I just did not take it back.

I would love to buy some­thing sim­i­lar or even exact­ly the same phone now, but alas, now with it is tight.

Almost imme­di­ate­ly after the pur­chase, I ordered anoth­er mir­a­cle of technology …

Sharp SH5020C

• Solar bat­tery
• Styl­ish Japan­ese design
• Relax­ation mode

This phone is sim­pler, of course, but it has a solar pan­el on the back, and a very unusu­al but­ton design in the form of pro­trud­ing lines on the body.

I still have this phone, I used it peri­od­i­cal­ly when I was with­out my main phone for one rea­son or anoth­er (when I lost or broke my phone).

I also some­how bought myself (appar­ent­ly on the eupho­ria of own­ing a Sharp SH7228U) anoth­er old Japan­ese smart­phone on Ebay com­plete­ly by accident.

Docomo T‑01D Toshiba Regza Phone

• Cool design
• Super qual­i­ty
• Styl­ish color

But this phone, alas, at the time of pur­chase was already very tech­ni­cal­ly out­dat­ed and I hard­ly used it.

How­ev­er, I would like to note that like any Japan­ese phone it was very cool in terms of phys­i­cal feel and qual­i­ty, it had a lot of small design details and even a retractable antenna :)

It cost a pen­ny for obvi­ous rea­sons, so I don’t even remem­ber where it went, let’s move on.

And then I was giv­en a new one at work….

Samsung Galaxy S6

The evo­lu­tion of cell phones in my case con­tin­ued and reached a fun­da­men­tal­ly new stage.

• Large screen
• Good cam­era
• Nor­mal performance

My first Sam­sung, great phone for its time, you could say it was a return to high tech after down­shift­ing. First mod­ern smart­phone since I had a Sony Eric­s­son Xpe­ria X10.

I got it fig­ured out a cou­ple of times, crashed it a bit, then it just stopped work­ing. Sadness.

Fur­ther I may be slight­ly con­fused again, but that’s what it seemed to be:

Sony Xpe­ria XA

• Cool design
• Good screen
• Accept­able price

I got this phone in a bro­ken and not quite work­ing con­di­tion, but it turned out that it was under war­ran­ty and oh mir­a­cle, I took it to the ser­vice and they fixed it for free and even sort of replaced the screen and back cover.

There was an unpleas­ant moment with the cam­era, the glass was lost and so the image was a bit cloudy.

But I’ve always been a big Sony fan and only enjoyed the phone.

It did­n’t last long, once at the sea I just dived with it and that’s it :).

Next was the sec­ond smart­phone, which was giv­en to me at work and this is the penul­ti­mate smart­phone in this story.

Samsung A3 2017

• Com­pact
• Good qual­i­ty
• Afford­able price

And this was my sec­ond Sam­sung, I did­n’t like it, it was small and uncom­fort­able, but it was the one I used for a very long time and shot at least the first half of all the videos on my video blog Tiku Dig­i­tal (tiku.tv) on it.

Then I got a new smart­phone, from which I write this text and from which I shoot my video blog and gen­er­al­ly do almost every­thing I can.

And I imme­di­ate­ly gave up my work­ing Sam­sung because it became sim­ply unbear­able to use it fur­ther, hav­ing a mod­ern smart­phone in pair with it.

And here is the last phone in this sto­ry, but not the last in my life …

Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro

Super-duper hit of its time.

• Excel­lent val­ue for money
• Chic white col­or and design in general
• 4 cam­eras, wide, macro and main 64 MP
• Great scan­ner, NFC and nice droplet on the front

The unbox­ing of this smart­phone is on my chan­nel.

By the time I received this smart­phone, I had already start­ed to slow­ly become a fan of Xiao­mi in gen­er­al and their whole eco-sys­tem and cool devel­op­ment of sub­sidiary brands.

And this smart­phone only strength­ened my love for the brand, and I also dis­cov­ered the won­der­ful world of MIUI and ges­ture con­trol. Now I can’t imag­ine switch­ing to some­thing else.

The smart­phone is beau­ti­ful in every way, even now, I high­ly rec­om­mend it to everyone.

And while I was writ­ing this post, I was giv­en a new work phone at work and this is my third Samsung.

Samsung A51

• Mod­ern design
• In-screen scan­ner
• Dot cutout front in the mid­dle of the screen

I can’t say much about this phone yet, the most I like is the design of the frontal cutout in the form of a dot in the mid­dle of the screen, that in my opin­ion is 100 times bet­ter than a dot on the side, but a drop like the Red­mi is also normal.

The in-screen fin­ger­print scan­ner is bull­shit, it almost nev­er works, but there is some­thing like Face ID and it sur­pris­ing­ly works.

Ges­ture con­trol is there, but it’s incred­i­bly slow com­pared to the Red­mi. I don’t know, maybe the phone in gen­er­al is slow because of the work­ing OS add-ons, but I find it incred­i­bly dumb com­pared to the Red­mi Note 8 Pro.

Bonus — tablets!

I always thought tablets weren’t a very suc­cess­ful for­mat and time has con­firmed this, how­ev­er I have had a couple.

Sony Taplet P

Although it’s not a phone in the usu­al sense of the word, but in my opin­ion I have a bright rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the evo­lu­tion of cell phones in my pocket.

• The world’s first dual-screen tablet
• Unique design
• Japan­ese assembly

This is my first and almost my last at the moment, I bought it already strong­ly after its release, very cheap and just for interest.

I still have the tablet and use it as a home clock / alarm clock.

Apple iPad Air 2

• It’s Apple and that says it all
• Design and screen
• Usabil­i­ty

This is my first and last Apple device so far, I did­n’t fall in love at first sight :)

This tablet was giv­en to me at work for a project and after­wards I suc­cess­ful­ly passed it on to some­one else. I’ve had so many devices in my life as it is.

This is where the evo­lu­tion of cell phones in my pock­et ends. We’ll see what hap­pens next and I promise to write the sec­ond part of this post when I get the hang of it.

The evo­lu­tion of cell phones: con­clu­sion
That’s it, but the sto­ry con­tin­ues. And it’s always very inter­est­ing to turn back and see what was.

Tell us about the evo­lu­tion of cell phones in your pock­et!
What kind of cell phones did you have? Which one did you like the most? What does the evo­lu­tion of cell phones mean to you?

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