This article comes from WeChat public account “Geek Choice” (ID: GeekChoice), who is the author Hero, Ai Faner released with permission.
You can’t go anywhere this Spring Festival. You can only stay at home during the Spring Festival. Many people can only use Weibo and WeChat, and always pay attention to the situation outside. Although it ’s boring to play with mobile phones every day, I have to say that if we do n’t have smartphones, we may not be able to get information in such a timely manner.
From 1973 to 2020, it took only a few decades after the birth of the mobile phone to occupy most of our lives. This allowed many accessory manufacturers to see the opportunity and also brought a lot of mobile phone accessories that are advancing with the times. You may have seen some of these products, and you may have used them. Today’s Geek Choice (public account GeekChoice) will take a look at the disappeared mobile phone accessories for everyone.
Mobile phone accessories that coexist with utility and decoration
In the years before the iPhone was born, non-smart phones and simple-function Symbian smartphones became popular. At that time, mobile phone accessories often had both decorative elements and practicality. The most well-known one is probably the mobile phone. Rope up.
Because there is too little information, it is difficult to find out what is the first mobile phone with a lanyard hole. But more than ten years ago, many mobile phone manufacturers added the design of lanyard holes to their mobile phones, especially Sony Ericsson and LG. Asian manufacturers are very good at fashion design of mobile phones. Through this hole at the bottom, users can easily Hanging his favorite doll on it, lively and cute but full of personality.
The appearance of the lanyard hole is not just a personal decoration, it allows many people to easily take out the smaller mobile phone from the bag at the time, taking into account the practicality. At the same time, other accessory manufacturers have brought another type of accessory to the mobile phone-a lanyard, so that those who are inconvenient to find a mobile phone can hang the phone directly around the neck.
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This design was also due to the small size of the mobile phone at that time, coupled with the beautiful appearance of many mobile phones with fashion as a selling point, so there was no problem even hanging around the neck. Motorola once had such a model to match the neck The rope appeared in the 2004 Feng Xiaogang movie “Mobile Phone” poster, showing the popularity of this accessory.
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Apart from hanging your phone around your neck, many people at the time liked to stick your phone to your waist. This kind of device was mainly targeted at male users. The accessory that came with it was the mobile phone pocket. There are horizontal and vertical designs. I remember that many local bosses had installed mobile phones in this way.
It can be seen that in the era when smartphones were not yet mature and popular, on the one hand, items such as mobile phones were used as communication tools, and on the other hand, they also displayed user personality (after all, mobile phones were very long at that time. Not the same), so many accessories combined decorative and practical, and became the hottest accessories of that era.
▲ Picture from The Cell Mate
There were also some accessories on the market that seemed strange today, but some people are using them, such as The Cell Mate, an accessory that allows you to call while driving. , Looks weird? But today’s Bluetooth headsets solve this problem.
The era of “battery flowers blooming” on mobile phones ushered in an inflection point after the birth of the iPhone. Whether it was a bar, flip, slider or other types of design, it quickly became a large screen and a unified 3.5mm headphone jack. With the development of smart phones, some new mobile phone accessories have appeared around us.
When accessories become smarter
Mobile phones are becoming more and more intelligent, and some accessory manufacturers have seen new opportunities. In order to make mobile phones more convenient and better, they have added smart functions to common accessories, such as this small “smart button.”
▲ Picture from Xiaomi’s official website
The “Smart Button” accessory may evoke many people’s memories. It was originally a project called Pressy on the overseas crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, initiated by Israeli Nimrod Back and his team. This button looks like a The plug plugged into the 3.5mm headphone jack of the mobile phone, but with a very low price (from $ 5), raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in just over a month, becoming a popular product at the time.
