2004: A trip down mobile memory lane

By Joseph Hanlon on 05 August 2009

2004, a magic year for mobility.

We saw external antennas shrinking into obscurity, along with the bulky size of the handsets from previous years. We saw PDAs and mobile phones put their differences aside, and the burgeoning of a device we now call the smartphone. Motorola ruled the roost with the ultra-desirable RAZR V3, Nokia tried some daring designs and Sony Ericsson gave us a remote controlled car connecting to your phone by the power of a mysterious technology known as Bluetooth.

As we celebrate our 5th year, journey with the team from CNET Australia as we travel down memory lane remembering the best and worst mobile phones from the year 2004.

Nokia N-Gage QD

No other phone from 2004 screamed "antique" quite like the N-Gage QD. For its original ticket price of AU$389 you got a dual-band GSM phone and a portable game console, but it lacked any form of music player. If you bought the N-Gage QD at launch you'd have received The Sims: Bustin' Out, but if we remember correctly, that was about the only good game available on the doomed gaming platform.

(Credit: Nokia)

Topics: birthday, history, mobile phones, motorola, nokia, palm, siemens, 5th birthday, 2004, credit

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Comments (2)

  • Indignant commented on 05/08/2009 13:47 Report abuse

    YOU ARE INCORRECT!. The QD has awesome games. Path to glory, Tony Hawks skateboarding, tombraider and worms were all classic titles on this awesome phone. Upgradeable memory and third party mp3 software made this phone a piece of tech that was clearly ahead of its time.

  • Hjalmar commented on 05/08/2009 12:33 Report abuse

    They all look so plasticky, and cheap. I would be caught dead with any of those

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