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It feels like ages ago, but there was a time when some phones carried a certain cachet.
Now with the plethora of barely indistinguishable iPhones and Android devices, there isn't much novelty in phones anymore -- aside from the recent spate of Nokia throwbacks and that weird curved screen phase.
SEE ALSO: Your Phone Might Be Changing Your BrainBut during the 2000's, phones like the Sidekick were essentially a fashion accessory, akin to rocking a nice pair of sneakers or a swish new bag, and sneakily embedded into popular hip-hop videos of that era.
These phones were the closest thing to luxury -- and being a massive hip hop star -- for a kid like me who grew up in the suburbs. And I knew it'd be way easier to convince my parents to buy me one as opposed to a Mercedes. Below are some of the most drool-worthy (at the time anyway) mobile phones immortalized in rap videos.
Sure, J-Kwon's career never really hit the same heights as again following 2004's "Tipsy."
But I'm still fantasising about sliding the monochrome LCD screen of the Sidekick (a.k.a. the Hiptop) so I can message all of my friends (on a QWERTY keyboard!) to tell them about my "crazy" house party where we will all get mildly drunk.
Back in the day, it was *kinda* uncool to use a phone that had a stylus. And look, who wants to use a stylus?
But Missy Elliott, being the pioneer she is, used one on the Nokia 7710 Communicator in her video for "Lose Control," while recording a dance-off on its now-crappy one megapixel camera.
Yes, Kelly Rowland's heart was broken with an excel spreadsheet masquerading as a text message from Nelly, but that shouldn't detract from how cool it would've been to do COMPUTER THINGS ON A PHONE.
"this gadget is a big boy toy.got it,cost me a fortune and i guess dats why p.diddy used it in his latest video.if u cant afford it then dont review.stop player hatin!" reads a post by Gbolly on GSM Arena's forum.
I wholeheartedly agree. The all-metal Nokia Sirocco 8800 was proof you were a baller... back in 2006.
Boy, you bet I wanted to feel important talking to people with a Timeport pager.
Jay-Z set off something of a trend when he included a Motorola mention in the lyrics for 2000's "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)": "I'm too cold, Motorola, two-way pager me."
Every rap star had a Timeport, and kids like me wished we had one. "Sales went through the roof," wrote Steve Stoute, a former Interscope executive who asked Jay-Z to include the mention as a favour for a friend at Motorola.
The Nokia N91, which had a 4GB hard drive inside for music storage, was as ugly as they came when it was released in 2005.
Who cares though, when you can set off a frenzied dance party in your garage with a couple of MP3's on your phone, unlike your other friends who had regular Nokia phones.
Oh, and it had a headphone jack, too.
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