50 Times It Was Totally Unclear What Designers Were Thinking When They Came Up With These Crazy Phones

Spoiler alert: you're not her favorite grandkid :))

I always associate this phone with Jersey Shore so I'll never be tempted to get it. But it's also such a Canadian novelty phone at the same time. Kinda goes down with the cat clock.

Mobile duck? Mallard phone? Teleduck?

This amuses me to no end because my ringtone on my cellphone is a quacking duck.

I'll take it 😍

That keyboard was so slow though compared to using the normal phone keypad. You could literally text with it in your pocket. 3327777999 73327777999

Looks more like a weird computer

It can't even fit into your pocket.

Oh my! I had one of these (without the additional keyboard). Feeling a little bit older now lol

You must have been rich to have both

Looks like an 80's windbreaker.

It's the unofficial phone of the Volkswagen Golf Harlequin. That was a real thing in North America: All-Four-1...erica.jpeg

It looks like 90s Nickelodeon made it.

The Mondian phone.

Mine still works.

Ohh, I had it about 6 years ago. My favorite phone! The person who stole it from me must have thought that it was cool too :-(

The real first sidekick

I want it.

I wanted one but f these so much! Still looks pretty cool.

BEYBLADE BEYBLADE LET IT IT RIP!

I don't understand what is happening here.....LOL

I can see the allure of having a physical keyboard instead of a touchscreen. And not needing to buy something that plugs in to do it.

thought it said semens 💀💀💀

i wish they had shown a picture of it opened or whatever you have to do to it to make a call. it's really pretty, like a beautiful necklace and definitely not that thing zara was talkin about of which i have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever, so help me cthulhu.

What is happening?! When was this? 😍🤯

How do you dial and text must be a nightmare to do either.

Where is the keyboard???

Hahaah the bling beeper

It looks like a kitchen timer

I bought one of these when they were released in 2003. Used it every day till about 2009. Actually still have it, it still works fine, still lasts for about a week on one charge. Not my everyday phone now obviously, but been my reliable backup phone since 2009.

Kinda cool ngl

Loved it then. Love it now

How can a post about "what were they thinking" include one of the very first commercial phones? Should not belong here.

If I had a phone like that, I would always talk like an old-timey actor with those half-British accents.

My grandmother had one of those in her house until the early 80s when she went to a regular phone.

Where do you work, in Mayberry?

We had the ruggedized version in the Army. Yes, I am old, but odds are they are still used. There is nothing like a copper line between command posts when radios c**p out on you.

You could also as Scotty to beam you back up

How would I feel if I saw that thing? I would touch it until my fingers would burn off (I don’t have one but still)