The Queen uses an old Nokia brick to keep in touch with her family, her son has revealed. For reasons of national security, little is known about the mobile phones used by the Royal Family.

This phone might work in the city but it is a paperweight in urban areas! Signal strength is simiply terrible compared to the Nokia brick phone I retired. Sound quality is very poor as well and if ...

Nokia brought back some of its brick phones, for example. But the problem with these is that they’re too limiting – it’s too hard to switch. Which is why the Light Phone 3 is the least dumb dumbphone ...

Top: Nokia 7373, 2006. Photo: Aleksi Poutanen ... including the once ubiquitous 3310 ‘brick phone’ and the futuristic 8810 ‘banana phone’. “Technology doesn’t just shape us; we shape technology,” says ...