LG enV

Ahhh, the physical QWERTY. There was a sweet spot in the later 2000s where texting and using more complex online software was all the rage, but older candy bar phones couldn’t hope to keep up. Companies like LG popularized this half-candy bar, half-foldable with a keyboard that opened right up for quick typing (along with a large landscape display, which was also relatively novel at that time). It may not sound like much in our days of predictive text and speedy touchscreens, but it was a very cool and versatile solution back then.