![]() So clearly, the phone did exist, even if the internet seems to have scrubbed it from its memory. The press release claims it was “unlike any CDMA handset on the market today.” Described as “equally styled for the office or the nightclub” (seriously), it featured a “large, 65,000-color display” that slide up and down, revealing and concealing the phone's keypad as it did so. It's remarkably difficult to find any information on now - it's almost as if the phone never existed - but if dig deep enough, you can find a few teeny, tiny tidbits about it.įor example, I managed to dig up a press release from March of 2003 detailing the new models Kyocera debuted at that year's CTIA trade show in New Orleans. The Kyocera Slider was also the first slider phone I recall ever seeing, thanks both to that commercial and to one of my best friends my freshman year of college who actually had one. They may be obsolete now - but they represent a pretty awesome time in my life, so for me, they're full of meaning and memories. It's amazing what giving your phone number out to so many potential new friends during orientation will do for your memory, even if you have a terrible head for numbers.Īlthough I've had many phones throughout the years, I have a particular fondness for the ones dating back to the early part of the century. I didn't actually use it to speak to anyone other than my parents until I left for college - which, incidentally, was also when I finally learned my own number. for rehearsal every night eventually my folks just got tired of having to dole out their loose change to me so I could ring them from the payphone whenever I was ready to be picked up. As a theatre kid, I was usually at school until until around 10 p.m. I was in high school when my parents bequeathed me my first cell phone. So today for Throwback Thursday, let's remind ourselves of all the cell phones from the early 2000s we were all obsessed with, because it's true what they say: You never forget your first Nokia. Poll time: How old were you when you got your first cell phone? Kids these days seem to get their own fancy-schmancy smartphones earlier and earlier (I swear I'm seeing 9-year-olds walking around with them, although I can't for the life of my figure out why a 9-year-old would need their own phones), but for a lot of older Millennials, it was probably during the early 2000s.
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