I’ve been a CNET journalist for almost 15 years and I’ve tried everything from electric cars and bikes to cameras and, er, magic wands. I’ve even compared drones to barn owls. But my biggest focus has always been phones and I’ve seen a lot of them in my time. There’s always been regular names like Apple and Samsung, but I’ve also seen the rise of brands like Xiaomi and OnePlus, while once-dominant names like BlackBerry, HTC and LG have vanished from the mobile space.
I’ve seen phones arrive with such fanfare that they changed the face of the mobile industry, while others simply trickled into existence and disappeared just as uneventfully. But it’s the weird ones that stick in my memory. Those devices that tried to be different, that dared to offer features we didn’t even know we wanted or simply the ones that aimed to be quirky for the sake of being quirky. Like
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