Ask teens these days what phones people used just 10 years ago, and you might find the answers are far from reality. Indeed, there’s been a profound change in technology, a gigantic leap forward that has completely overhauled the mobile phone landscapes.

In this article, we go back 10 years in time to 2005, the dark ages of phones. No, not even smartphones: there were none of those (by today's definition with a fully developed app store and an ecosystem), instead people talked about PDAs and communicators. Hilarious from the point of view of today, isn't it?




Clamshell phones? You rarely see them today, but they were all the rage back in 2005. Push-to-talk? Revolutionary 10 years ago. 4G LTE? Forget about it, people were happy if they had connectivity to the Internet at all, and have EDGE was considered great (3G was a luxury).

So what were the hot phones in 2005? Let’s waste no time and go back in history.

Motorola Moto RAZR V3 (Matte Black)
The Moto Razr took the phone world by surprise in 2004 when the V3 version was selling like hotcakes, and in 2005, Motorola followed up on the success with a matte black edition of the likable thin clamshell phone. Tiny screen, all buttons, no real smarts, but sleek and good looking.





Sony Ericsson K750
The Sony Ericsson K750 was a little wonder in 2005 that hinted for a great future for camera phones. What was the excitement all about? A 2-megapixel camera! Don’t laugh, it was all the rage, spurring a bunch of camera comparisons, tests, and thoughts whether the days of point-and-shoots are numbered. We all know how that turned out, don’t we?




Nokia N70
Call it a communicator, call it a PDA, the Nokia N70 was the great-great-great grandfather of the modern smartphone. Boy did it have a huge (2.1 inches!) display, running the super advanced Series 60 UI on a whopping 220MHz TI OMAP 1710 system chip. Don’t ask how many cores were in it.


BlackBerry 7100
2005 was right in the midst of the golden age for BlackBerry. Everyone was on the Crackberry, and despite this little 7100 series wonder having merely 65K colors (less than the 256K others flagship of the time sported), its advanced BlackBerry OS with support for email was the real hit.



Nokia 8800
A stainless steel piece of beauty that draws inspiration from the very successful slide-phones of days past 2005, the Nokia 8800 features a 1.7” display and an SVGA camera. Its color display also sports 256K colors, plenty for the time, but a far cry from today’s 16 million standard on phones.




Motorola Q8
Motorola was also playing in the game of communicators/PDAs, and the Q8 was its most advanced model for the time with a 5-way navigation button and a full physical QWERTY keyboard that business users could not live without. The star of the show, however, was the advanced Windows Mobile version 6.0.



Nokia 1100
Finally, the Nokia 1100 might not have been among the most advanced phones of the time, but when people were conisdered priviliged to even have a cell phone, the 1100 was a blessing. As such, it was the best selling phone of the year with sales of 150 million units, far above all other technological wonders of 2005.




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Those where the machine backthen not this shitty Android

Time flies! I used the Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Nokia N70. I loved the Nokia 8800 but never used it

Looking back now, they no try at all

I didnt see Sagem MY X-5

That nokia ehn..especially the light blue one.

My dad still use that nokia 1100 till today...all this modern phones look like shiit to him cox he never learnt how to use it....

wow

And many more will come still.. Stop fretting over 50MP camera phones or Lollipop OS this and that. Invisible phones, Self-thinking phones, Phones that could look into space and tell you what's there, etc, are still coming..

youngpol:
And many more will come still.. Stop fretting over 50MP camera phones or Lollipop OS this and that. Invisible phones, Self-thinking phones, Phones that could look into space and tell you what's there, etc, are still coming..

boss,fone to look into space and tell you what? Na joke o.

Ezedon:
I didnt see Sagem MY X-5

LOL.. That was my first camera phone back in 2005

Hmmmm, vanity upon vanity, all na vanity
In those days people can kill to get those phones and phones of nowadays will soon be trash too!

youngpol:
And many more will come still.. Stop fretting over 50MP camera phones or Lollipop OS this and that. Invisible phones, Self-thinking phones, Phones that could look into space and tell you what's there, etc, are still coming..

abeg if you dey where them dey do the phone,tell them to add app wey go help person dey chop nairabet well well.

I was chairman back in 2k5 when i bought my flat bird phone with flourescent light.

OP, where is that Motorola C115 that looks like bathing soap na.

Partiality, you didn't mention my phone.

i remember my friend day in 2006 using k750 to buga me, my moto L6 cud only accept 2 songs, but dat machine had memory card, all this tech stuff are vanity upon vanity, the range rover Fela Kuti use buga pple den, LATSMA dey use am toll vehicles now

I remember my Nokia N70. Then I was seen as one of the biggest boys in ss3.

Those days we used inferred to transfer files.
Deep down I want those days back but life is changing so we gotta change too else we fizzle out.

I Rep Sagem, "My X-5"

On point

Na where Samsung Blue face?

Men in those days, I did used the Motorola razor, Sony Ericsson w800i, Nokia communicator..Nokia N900 etc. I buy phone sha!!

i used dem all except RIM 7100

And some girls raised their legs back den...... girls dat iphone 6 u seek wt u selling assets will become a thing of d pst, within 3yrs sef.... nt saying u shldnt buy tho...jaye

your sister carry belle because of that phone.

The Motorola Razr was my dream phone at the time and I saved long and hard to have it.

And to think I held down one of 3 armed robbers because of my Nokia 1100 torch light phone. God bless MTN Xtra Cool wih that faithful phone. I will buy one again if I find it today.

The corpse of my N70 should be somewhere in my tech corner till date.

The reason we should worry less about the 'reigning' techs of today.

'You bought the car today, it's worth less from that moment they took the cheque' - Carl Benz 1908
(Don't search the quote. The joke's on you)

I see sony ericsson K700 and K750. With baddass earphones....

Like my Nokia n72

Most of this phones are no more in existence but d like of N70, nokia 1110 or so stil exist

No sagem?
Bird?

Samsung blue face

9h yes