10 Phones That We Loved Before iPhone's Arrival

7. Motorola StarTac
Year of Release: 1996

Before Motorola released its hugely popular clamshell phone, Razr V3; it has released another flip phone; StarTac. This flip phone made its way into the market in the year 1996.  In fact there was yet another clamshell phone which was called MicroTAC. This phone came with a semi-clamshell design that had been launched in 1989. In the year 2005, PC World listed StarTAC at the number 6^th slot in The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years list.

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8. Sony Ericsson W600i
Year of Release: 2005

The shocking bright orange swivel phone did attract a lot of attention when it was released. This phone was also famous for its Walkman feature which was integrated with the device.  This was the beginning of Sony’s successful line of walkman phones. The phone also boasted of certain gaming features.

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