As a teenager of the '00s, I'm increasingly saddened by what we consider innovation in smartphone design these days. Just quite how excited everyone has become over a Barbie flip phone we haven't even seen yet is testament to how bleak things have got. Once upon a time mobile phone design was an exciting new frontier, and a potential pink flip phone would have been par for the course.
My first phone was the trusty Nokia 3210 back in 2000, which was hardly known for its exciting build (more its indestructible design... and Snake, of course). But that was followed by an array of rotating, flipping and sliding beauties in an assortment of shapes, colours and orientations.
