It’s funny how icons back then were rendered with the detail of a renaissance painting, and now that we have hidpi displays, they are designed like they have to render in EGA.
lol, the phone app was called dialler because at the time it didn’t make sense to have a phone app called phone.
I prefer the icons from this true smart phone
I had the Treo 650 and I still miss it.
still got mine, and the 600. best and TRUE smartphone to exist before it was even a term.
Skeumorphism was better in every way.
We just need to update them for the modern times. For save the icon would be a storage datacenter. For dialer it would be an nsa data center. For browser it would be a google ai data center.
Just replace every icon for modern software with a robot head representing AI that was crammed in there. Maybe adding different colors is also fine.
Don’t give them ideas. I can see marketing people getting very excited at the concept of apps with distinct personalities. Suddenly the calculator on your phone is replaced with “Ask Eugene”.
Ok this might sound insane, but my dad had a razr I would borrow sometimes and the plastic had such a unique smell. And then I had a little moto glider that also had a super plasticky smell, but not as strong as the razr.
Seeing these icons gave me such a trip back to that era and that smell. I feel like I need to go change my shoes or something because I’ve stepped into another life.
