https://www.shafiq.in/tags/gadgets/ Recent content in Gadgets on Shafiq Alibhai Hugo en-GB 2009-2026 All rights reserved. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:06:52 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/some-of-my-favourite-cell-phones/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:06:52 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/some-of-my-favourite-cell-phones/ <p>There was a period, roughly 2004 to 2008, when phone manufacturers decided that phones could be fashion accessories. Not phones that looked like fashion accessories. Actual fashion accessories that happened to make phone calls. I collected a few of them, or at least got close enough to handle them, and I still think some of the best phones I&rsquo;ve ever held had nothing to do with specs or benchmarks.</p> <h3 id="nokia-8800-sirocco">Nokia 8800 Sirocco</h3> <p>This was the one that started it for me. Stainless steel body, a sliding mechanism that felt like opening a luxury watch case, and a weight to it that told you it was built from something real. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco wasn&rsquo;t trying to be a smartphone. It was trying to be a thing you pulled out of your pocket and knew, immediately, was expensive. It worked.</p>