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    23 Mobile Phones From the Early 2000s - When No One Knew What a Phone Was Supposed to Be

    Before every phone became the same shiny glass rectangle, the early 2000s were pure chaos - and I mean that in the best way possible. It was the golden age of weird tech optimism, when every company on Earth had a different idea of what a phone should be.

    Flip phones, slide phones, swivel phones, phones that turned into cameras, cameras that turned into phones, phones that played MP3s (sometimes), and one that could literally transform into a tiny robot. It was an era when innovation meant throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what flipped open.

    You never knew what your next upgrade would look like - maybe it glowed, maybe it spun, maybe it had a full keyboard hidden under the screen. It was the one time in tech history where "functionality" and "vibes" were battling for dominance… and vibes usually won.

    So here's a throwback to the era when we carried our personality in our pocket - and it probably had an antenna, a ringtone store, and a Snake high score that we were way too proud of.

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