What's the most visually appealing phone you've had so far?

My razr. God I miss that phone.
- Iconic. That flip open/snap shut feeling. Insanely thin at the time.
- The only right answer. That bad boy was awesome.
- The V3i, I paid full price for that phone when it came out. I modded that thing as much as I possibly could!
- Yes! I had the candy bar version, the Slvr.
  It scratched that cyberpunk itch.
- I wish the current Razr smartphone series was also a book foldable instead of only clamshell foldable :(

And, yeah, I used to use one like that.
- And you could knock a motherfucker out with one! Like in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis beats a pimp to death.
- Ahh, classic style.

The duck phone. The quack when you got a call was annoying, though.

HTC One M8, hands down no questions. Curved aluminium back, front facing stereo speakers. Fits the hand like a well tailored glove.
There may be fancier looking phones out there, but nothing I've ever seen looked cooler.
- The HTC UI was also pretty cool, as far as I remember
- Came here to post this, I loved that phone. Hmm I wonder what roms exist for it now...

LG Chocolate! I had the white one. It did everything I needed, supported custom ringtones, had paid ring back tones (remember those?), played music, etc. The best thing was being able to text with one hand while not having to look at what you’re typing. Hopefully it’s not nostalgia affecting me with this phone, but it ran flawlessly for years before I eventually upgraded to a Motorola Droid back in the day.
I miss fun phones. I can either have a folding slab, a black slab, or a different slab that comes in other colours. 🥲
- Oh I fucking hated ringback tones. What a goddamn terrible idea.
  
  Totally agree! If they came back I’d immediately hang up if I heard some annoying ass song instead of a phone ringing.
  But a young me really liked them and bought a few!
- I had the Chocolate Flip and loved it.
  Edit: looking at it now, it's just a generic flip phone.

My old mate’s phone stuck with me for decades. Not sure if it’s pleasing but sure is something
- Imagine typing a text message with that
  
  Utter nightmare. It doesn’t even lit the available letters in the dark. It’s just bad

Motorola g8 plus. The photos online do no justice, you need to hold the phone and see it. It had a shiny case, sort of metallic, sort of iridescent, it gave the impression of being made of thick glass over metal or something. The only phone I never wanted a case for, I only used transparent ones for it because nothing out there could look better than the phone itself.
If it weren't for a forced upgrade to 5g network in my country I'd still be using it.
Edit: here, I've made a gif of it. It still doesn't look as good. The camera doesn't get the change of color to purple, and the gradient from dark to light gets lost. The reflection on the surface also throw the camera off. But all that said, it's better than a still photo.

I loved my Nokia 7380 art deco phone. It had a screen hidden behind a mirror surface, a rotary dial instead of buttons and even a little fabric flap like a pair of jeans or something. It was so widely different to anything else out there. I wish it still worked on contemporary wireless services, but alas. It was a pain to text on but with voice messages becoming a thing, it didn't matter too, too much. I would probably go back if I could.
- Yes! When I saw this post the Nokia 7380 was instantly where my mind went. I had the exact same phone, it was rad.
  I remember at the time it was referred to as a “lipstick style” case. Loved that thing. I still have it in a box of old electronics somewhere, been thinking about digging it out and seeing if I could get it working again but assumed it wouldn’t on the current cellphone frequencies. I stopped using it when I got the original iPhone at release, so that was 18 years ago I guess. Haven’t not had an iPhone of some variation since.
  The simplicity of it is what I always loved about the form factor. Yeah, it sucked for texting but maybe I shouldn’t be writing long texts nowadays anyway. It was fine if you are just replying with a couple words to a text. That reflective one way mirrored screen, real leather and simplicity of the buttons was a great mix of form and function for me at the time.
  Your picture didn’t load for me so I am attaching my own;
- The Nokia "fashion" line had some interesting designs
- More phones should come with fabric flaps ‼️

The Samsung U600 was stylish as hell.
- I had a Samsung phone not dissimilar to that. It was a brownish color, the D-pad was square not round, but probably had the same internals as that phone. It was tiny, maybe even slightly hard to text on because the 1, 2 and 3 keys were a little close to the slide, if the slide had another 3 or 4mm of travel it would have been an improvement. It had that garbage curved mirror near the camera lens for selfies.

Nokia Lumia series. It is a shame that they did not sell
- Loved my Lumia 920 back in the day. A phenomenal phone featuring a fun user experience with the Live Tiles. It was a great phone if you didn’t like apps.
  
  Microsoft gave up too soon. Android was also shit at the start, it only became good around 4.0
- Ah the soap boxes

This was my favorite phone I've ever had. All metal case, big front facing speakers, slim form factor. Apparently according to this article the processor was bad and the camera wasn't great but I didn't notice or care. I never bothered with Bluetooth speakers with this thing because it sounded great and it was waterproof. It also had a radio tuner built in that you could use with wired headphones acting as the antenna which I used a surprising amount when waiting in places with poor cell service and at least once trying to get weather updates during a bad storm. I wish more phones went with just weird features like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_One_M9

The original HTC Incredible. Comparatively speaking, it was a very modern looking phone. The back was the thing that people noticed. It had a weirdly shaped battery cover back. The physical interface was pretty great and it included an optical cursor or whatever you want to call it.

BlackBerry. Dang I miss them. They were business cool. Now I make due with a Unihertz Titan Slim. And hopefully they upgrade to a second one cause age is showing on mine.
- I know it isnt the same form factor but the Titan 2 is coming soon with pre-production units being sent out to people already and estimated release in October.
  I had the original titan and will probably get this to try it out but that also means a Titan Slim 2 is a possibility at some point. The key2 that the slim copies is the best phone I ever owned I think!
  
  I sadly had to retire my Key2, easily the nicest phone I've owned since 1994.
  I bought the Titan but returned it for being so underpowered in comparison. Is the Titan Slim2 going to improve on that?
  
  Yeah. I saw. It's a potential hopeful that a Slim 2 is on the way. This would make my year. Given the success of this lineup, I feel positive about them following through. But it also means a Pocket 2 before a Slim 2 so we are going to wait for awhile.

I think it was my old Nokia 6600
- I had this. It was super cool.

Sony Ericsson J300i

Downvote me all you want but I actually liked the Surface Phones.
They were well built, I could multitask nicely, the thin bumpers were nice, it wasn't overly gimmicky. I preferred the divider between the screens.
Downsides...not a flagship in any specs. Also terminated.
- I learned about them two weeks before they lost support, wanted one really bad and I'm glad I had only just bought a phone already (Pixel 7a) otherwise I would have bought it only to then look up the update cycle and see it was about to be discontinued.
  That being said, reviewers noted at the time that the multitasking on Android was a bit clunky, which may have been an opening for a custom ROM to come in and improve this.

The OG Motorola Razr was the most aesthetically pleasing phone I ever remember. Shit was like TOS Star Trek's communicator thingy.

I really liked my Siemens SX1

Dual slide helio ocean, t9 and hardware keyboard on different slide outs

BlackBerry passport in red. It’s still in my closet.

My old Motorola RAZR from the mid-aughts.

Probably a red Blackberry Pearl Flip. One of the last phones I had that wasn't a featureless black slate covered in rubber.

Adding to this again.
Ericsson T28/T39.

Gotta be the OnePlus 6.
- Pff, love my 7 pro. Not having that holepunch looks soo pleasing. I wish I could find a morern phone witht that.

Sony Xperia S: stylish, curved back.
https://fdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/sony/sony-xperia-s-white.jpg

My first smartphone was the LG Optimus G. It had a textured pattern on the back that made my other phones look plain by comparison.

HTC Legend, the first smartphone I ever had. I still have several apps from it that I've kept carrying across. Comparing them with the stuff you can get now shows how bad apps and widgets have gotten. Anyhow, the phone design was really Nice.

I absolutely loved the look and feel of the essential ph-1. The ceramic back felt great in the hand (the few times I dared carrying it without a case). The size was perfect for me, and I personally found the notch less distracting than the hole punch camera.

I think my current pixel 7 pro is probably the nicest looking smartphone I've owned. Prior to this it was the LG G3.
Back in the day I had some Motorola TracFone that looked a lot like a razr that I also thought looked pretty cool.
When my family switched from TracFone I got a Samsung Rogue which I also really liked, but I also remember wishing that my parents had waited a couple months so that I could have gotten my personal pick for the sexiest smartphone of all time instead- the original Motorola Droid. I eventually ended up getting the droid 2, which was, IMO, a fine successor to the droid, but just not as sexy.

I really liked the palm pre. Fit well in the band and the slide out keyboard was awesome.

![The Motorola rizr, perfect shape, the slide function felt really nice. I miss this phone sometimes]
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iPhone 3GS. Lovely little thing. Mine was white.

Samsung Galaxy S3. It was my first phone with a large touchscreen; everything before that was a flip phone, or one where half the phone slides away to reveal a full keyboard.

Motorola's Moto X, with the back being made of bamboo.

My Nexus 6 was my favourite of all time.

iPhone 5

I think the iPhone 5s would be the one that fits the question IMO.
Maybe I am a bit biased as I want to get a OnePlus Nord 4 (although I will better wait for the 5th) but I really like its design, and the design is like the last thing I care about a phone 😅 (I always end up setting a cheap screen protector and a cheap case).

One of the first phones I ever saw was my cousins nokia 3110 ... and I just thought it was the prettiest thing ever. But by the time I got to have my own phone it was already pretty outdated so I never got one.

I'd definitely say the cameras on the Pixel 4a looked unique for their time, but the rest of the phone was very same-same otherwise. I did like the corner cut out for the front camera though.
My current phone (Pixel 7a) has the camera visor, but even then the whole thing is very same-same again.
I have a soft spot for the iPhone 4/4s as I saved two 4s devices from ewaste a couple years ago through work and I personally think it was peak iPhone. The thick premium sandwich of glass with aluminum frame, the weight and heft, it felt stocky and sturdy, it was one handed, the back glass was easily replaceable.
The rest of my phones in history weren't remarkable for their looks though in my opinion. So my answer is the iPhone 4s

My vote goes to LG V10. Not only did it look great, it felt great in hand too.

Pixel with GrapheneOS, for me, it's beautiful. No bloat, no Google.

Pantech Vega Iron. Or maybe iPhone 5.

Had hand-me-down iPhone 4s that I thought wasz THE shit design wise . Modern phones aping it's lꝏk now and am glad for it !
Still have that phone , but unusable bcus forgor apple credentials for it

I'm not sure I'd classify any phone I've had as visually appealing.
My S10e has that white bluepink back they put on them, but it's spent its entire life in a silicone case.
I liked my LG EnV2. It might not have been an amazing looking thing but damn I liked the way it felt to use.

Palm pre 2. Best phone I've ever had in my entire life.

Man, this comment chain is nostalgic

My Kyocera 6035 - Palm Pilot and cell phone, God I loved that beast. Yes it was one of the first smart phones but also that flip keypad to let you cover the writing block and all the other touches were the bee's knees.

Banana phone.