

The BlackBerry phone was first introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager, but gained notoriety in 2003 as one of the very first smartphones with email and Web browsing.

Whether it was the novel joy of texting or the downtime spent playing Snake and Pong, nostalgic phones of the early-to-mid 2000’s will always be fondly remembered. Taking a tip from Apple’s dramatic “iVents,” major tech companies now save the mobile goods for their own individual launch spectaculars, leaving us all a little weepy for cellphones and the way things used to be.Īlas, even when phones were dumb, we loved them anyway.Īs we embark into the new year with 2015, we take a look back on five of your favorite early mobile era dumbphones. The annual International Consumer Electronics Show is ramping up for January, but it’s possible that we won’t be seeing many mobile announcements this year in Las Vegas.
