That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit

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When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

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In that photo, does everyone else see the birth control phone in the upper right hand side of the pile? I remember the razr phone and the Nokia brick and the sidekick and all the weird little cell phones we used to have but…I’ve never seen that birth control phone.

Not a Nokia and I can't find that exact model but it seems there were a couple of weird round phones floating around in the early to mid 2000's:

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/c800

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/xelibri-6

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/panasonic-g70

There were some other weird as hell designs around that period, like the ones in this article:

https://medium.com/@samworldpeace/nokia-made-some-of-the-weirdest-phones-ever-a7e3412fa0c0

I recognise all but one of the phones in that link. The time just before smartphones was a weird moment in mobile phone history.

I think you did find it. Looks like that xelibri 6. What a weird, not convenient design.

I just watched a video essay about design that talked about this, basically before the iPhone manufacturers were trying all kinds of crazy shit, after the iPhone it was black rectangles all around.