Back in time with smartphone tech

Remember when smartphones were enormously, clunky bricks with sausagelike antennas and “high-end” 1.3-megapixel cameras? You could e-mail, get lost in file systems for hours, and clip them to fancy leatherette belt holsters.

Relive the good old days of smartphone tech with our gallery of sexy pre-2007 smartphones–and see how far we’ve come since then. If you feel so inclined, we’ll even let you dust off that holster of yours.

Smartphones then and now (photos)

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