Nowadays, practically all phones look exactly the same. All have a large display and a minimum of buttons on the front. Apparently, this is also why today it rarely happens that manufacturers make "special" devices. But this was not the case in the last decade, when Nokia, Samsung and other manufacturers produced tens or hundreds of phones and each of them looked different from the other. Some were beautiful and you wanted to have them at any price, others looked so that you didn't really know what they were. Today we're going to focus on ten older Samsung phones that were kind of weird and some were downright ugly.
1. Samsung SGH-P300
The list debuts with the Samsung SGH-P300. Think you see a calculator in the photo below? Well, we and many others have noticed the same thing. The phone from 2005 still looks weird even today, despite Samsung using premium materials. The SGH-P300 featured a combination of aluminum and leather, which the company returned to the Galaxy Note 3. The phone was very thin for those times, it was only 8,9 millimeters thick. In addition, it was supplied free of charge with a leather case in which the owner could hide his phone from public view and at the same time it could also be used for charging, as it contained a battery.
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2. Samsung Serene
The second place in our ranking of the strangest phones belongs to the "limit phone" Samsung Serene, aka Samsung SGH-E910. It was one of two phones that were produced in collaboration with the Danish manufacturer Bang & Olufsen. In a way, the device resembled a square shell, in which, in addition to the display, there was also a circular numeric keyboard. The phone was intended only for those who wanted the most exclusive on the market. This naturally reflected in its price, as it went on sale in late 2005 for $1.
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3. Samsung SGH-P310 CardFon
Samsung didn't learn much from the SGH-P300 and created another version, this time known as the Samsung SGH-P310 CardFon. The new version of the strange phone was even thinner than its predecessor and once again came with a leather protective cover. The phone felt a little squished, which contributed to it looking like a "squeezed" Nokia 6300 from behind.
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4. Samsung UpStage
The Samsung UpStage (SPH-M620) has been called a schizophrenic phone by some. There was a display and a keyboard on both sides of it, but each side looked completely different. The first page only offered navigation keys and a large display, so it looked a bit like the competing iPod nano player. The other side had a numeric keypad and a tiny display. The device was sold in 2007 as a Sprint exclusive.
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5. Samsung SGH-F520
The Samsung SGH-F520 never saw the light of day because its production was discontinued at the last minute. Nevertheless, it was one of Samsung's strangest phones. Thanks to the thickness of 17mm and two unconventional keyboards, where one under the 2,8″ display was really cut down, the SGH-F520 made it to our list. The phone also offered a 3-megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, and even HSDPA, a relatively rare feature for 2007. Who knows, if the phone eventually goes on sale, it might gain a large following.
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6. Samsung Juke
It would probably be a sin not to include the Samsung Juke in our list of unconventional phones. This was another device for music lovers who wanted to listen to songs on the go from their phone. The Juke was a tiny phone (albeit 21mm thick) that featured a 1,6″ display, dedicated music controls, a (usually hidden) alphanumeric keypad and 2GB of internal storage. The Samsung Joke was sold by US carrier Verzion in 2007.
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7. Samsung SCH-i760
Before Windows Phone had Microsoft as its main pro system Mobile Phones Windows Mobile. So at that time, Samsung created several smartphones with Windows Mobile, and one of them was the SCH-i760, which became quite popular in 2007 to 2008. At the time, the phone certainly had a lot to offer, but by today's standards it's ugly and overpriced, which is why it made our list. The SCH-i760 offered a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 2,8″ QVGA touchscreen, EV-DO and microSD card support.
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8. Samsung Serenade
Serenata was created in Samsung's second collaboration with Bang & Olufsen. which the South Korean company introduced at the end of 2007. It looked a little better than its predecessor, but it retained its special design, literally. The Samsung Serenata is perhaps the craziest (and possibly most modern) phone in our selection. It was a slide-out phone, but when it was pulled out, we didn't get a keyboard, as was the custom at the time, but a large Bang & Olufsen speaker. It was also equipped with a 2,3″ non-touch screen with a resolution of 240 x 240 pixels, a navigation wheel and 4 GB of storage. On the other hand, it didn't have a camera or a memory card slot.
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9. Samsung B3310
Despite its unusual, asymmetrical appearance, the Samsung B3310 was quite popular in 2009, perhaps due to its affordability. The B3310 offered a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, which was complemented by numeric keys on the left side of the 2″ QVGA display.
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10. Samsung Matrix
And finally, we have one real gem. Our list of strange phones from Samsung would be incomplete without mentioning the SPH-N270, which was also nicknamed the Samsung Matrix. The prototype of this phone appeared in the cult movie Matrix in 2003, hence its alias. It was a phone that most of us would imagine somewhere on a battlefield rather than in the hands of a manager. The Matrix was only sold in the US by Sprint and was a limited edition phone. The phone was 2 cm thick and had a rather strange speaker, which you can slide out to reveal a color TFT display with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. The Samsung Matrix was probably supposed to represent the future of mobile phones, but luckily today's smartphones are just a bit nicer and, above all, simpler.
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Source: PhoneArena
