Photos: 10 years of bananas, flips and candybars

2000 While Nokia continued to mine a tasty candybar niche - releasing the likes of the Nokia 8260 in cherry red and electric blue - another Scandinavian mobile maker, Ericsson, was doing well across the pond with this stylish piece of hardware.

The T28, with its pop-out hinged door, seemed to anticipate the flip phone - a form factor that would be attracting the punters by the thousand in a few short years - while simultaneously tapping into the ongoing desire for ever smaller, ever thinner, more pocketable gadgetry.

But if the year 2000 marked Ericsson's high point in mobile, it was also its swan song and it went on to abandon life as a solo player in the mobile space. Still the Ericsson brand lives on: the following year a joint venture between Ericsson and Japanese electronics giant Sony gave birth to Sony Ericsson and the pair have been hawking phones ever since.

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