weirdest smartphone designs of all time

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

weirdest smartphone designs of all time

Even though the smartphone industry these days feels like a uniform line up of similar looking designs, a long time ago, companies used to experiment quite a lot. People still reminisce about these phones, and while some of the designs were decidedly weird, others are still loved by a number of people for one reason or another.

I did a little digging, and came up with some of the weirdest phone designs people are still discussing about over on sites like Reddit:

  • Siemens SX1: because why wouldn’t you hold your phone like that and type from the edges.

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

  • Nokia 3650: are you sure that’s a phone?

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

  • Nokia 7600: hey, I remember this phone; Nokia sure experimented a lot.

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

  • Xperia Play: how would you like a phone with a dual-shock controller built in?

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

  • Kyocera Echo: wait, ZTE Axon M? No…

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

  • Microsoft Kin: Wait, this looks cute… I wonder why it failed.

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

  • Motorola V70: Excuse me while I return this to our alien overlords.

Some of the Weirdest, Most Unorthodox Cellphone Designs Ever Attempted

This is not an exhaustive list by any means, and I’m sure there are a number of other phones with weird and unorthodox designs. So share your thoughts on these phones, and other phones that you think have a weird design in the comments section below.

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