10 Phones That We Loved Before iPhone's Arrival

5. BlackBerry Pearl 8100
Year: of release:  2006

The Pearl from BlackBerry is no longer in the market as RIM discontinued the production of this smartphone. But at the time when it was released it created quite a flutter in the smartphone market. Pearl was the first handset from Research in Motion (RIM) to come with a camera and a media player. The last Pearl series to be manufactured by RIM was in May 2010 after which they did away with this series.

With the introduction of camera as well as the media player, RIM was trying to expand its customer base from businessmen to the normal person as well.

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6. Nokia N-gage
Year of Release: 2004

This has to be one of the first few phones that that brought the gaming world into the phone world. After N-gage many other smartphones were released that brought both these worlds together. But unfortunately the phone did not match up to the hopes of the users especially because of its weird shape which a lot of people found cumbersome. But this handset features on this list because of its innovative design and concept which was much ahead of its times.

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