📰 Why this phone matters:The 6340i was a GAIT phone (GSM-ANSI-136 Interoperability Team) that was offered in the US market by the Cingular network. This meant that it was capable of providing seamless connectivity to both GSM and TDMA network. It was an upgraded version of the 6340 which was the first GAIT phone to be offered in the US. The 6340i variant added the support the GSM 850 MHz frequency.
The 6340 / 6340i was almost identical to the TDMA-only 6360.
This phone is also one of the few Nokia phones to have the number 4 in the model name. This was due to the fact that number 4 was considered an inauspicious number in Asian markets.
⭐ WOW Factor:At launch in 2004, the Nokia 6620 was one of Nokia’s most advanced smartphones, bringing true Symbian multitasking and full Series 60 capabilities to the US market years ahead of the smartphone mainstream.
👁 Evaluation in my collection:Great – 9.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename:Calimero
⏱ Life timer:11h|📦 Boxed:NO
📅 Release Year:2004|💰 Release Price:500$;
📊 Units Sold:~6M
📰 Why this phone matters:The Nokia 6620 is a landmark Symbian Series 60 smartphone created specifically for the North American market, at a time when true smartphones were still rare outside Europe. Built in Finland and sold through Cingular Wireless, it delivered real multitasking, third-party application support, Bluetooth connectivity, MMC expansion, and an integrated camera in a compact candybar form. Unlike most Nokia smartphones of the era, the 6620 was never widely distributed in Europe, making original US carrier units exceptionally rare on this side of the Atlantic. More than just a regional variant, it represents a pivotal moment when Finnish smartphone engineering was successfully adapted to American carrier requirements, turning the 6620 into a true crossover classic and a highly desirable collector piece today.
⭐ WOW Factor:The Case of the phone is made from 80% recycled plastic
👁 Evaluation in my collection:Good – 8.8/10
🕵 Nokia Codename:Grouper
⏱ Life timer:43h|📦 Boxed:YES
📅 Release Year:2009|💰 Release Price:~90 €
📊 Units Sold:~300k
📰 Why this phone matters:Nokia has given U.S. carriers an interesting selection of cell phones over the past few months. We’ve seen quality music phones, quirky square models, and basic handsets just for making calls. The newest device to land on our desk, the Nokia Mural 6750 for AT&T, falls into yet another category. Slim, shiny, and armed with push-to-talk (PTT) and 3G, the Mural has a solid feel, thanks to its metal skin. Its performance was inconsistent, however, and it doesn’t offer anything that we haven’t seen before. The Mural costs $49.99 with a two-year contract and a $50 mail-in rebate.
👁 Evaluation in my collection:Brand New Swap – 10/10
⏱ Life timer:0m|📦 Boxed:NO
📅 Release Year:2009|💰 Release Price:~90 €
📊 Units Sold:~500k
📰 Why this phone matters:Also known as Nokia Mako, Nokia 6790 Surge is a futuristic looking side-slider GSM smarthphone with a full QWERTY keyboard. It runs on the Symbian 9.3, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 OS and sports a 2-megapixel camera, GPS and a 2.5 mm jack.
📰 Why this phone matters:The miniaturization of cell phone tech is enabling some truly unique designs lately. The Samsung Alias 2 was one, with its morphing e-ink keyboard. The Nokia 7705 Twist is another; it literally swivels open. It’s far from the first handset to do this; swivel phones were more popular several years ago, and of course the T-Mobile Sidekick line still does it. But with eye-catching devices like the Twist, they could make a comeback. The Twist is a decent choice for a Verizon feature phone, but there are several downsides-most of which are likely due to packing so much technology into such a small space.
⭐ WOW Factor:At just 31 mm wide, the GD55 was microscopic compared to Nokia and Ericsson competitors.It became a design icon instantly.
It became a design icon instantly.
👁 Evaluation in my collection:BNIB – 10/10
⏱ Life timer:0|📦 Boxed:YES
📅 Release Year:2002|💰 Release Price:~200 €
📊 Units Sold:~3M
📰 Why this phone matters:A beautifully preserved Panasonic EB-GD55 in the rare pink colour variant, complete with full original box and accessories. The GD55 is one of the most recognizable ultra-compact GSM phones of the early 2000s – famous for its tiny footprint, stylish design, and Panasonic’s unmistakable minimalist UI.
Released at a time when manufacturers competed to build the smallest possible mobile phone, the GD55 became iconic for its micro-sized form factor, ultra-light weight, and playful colour themes. Your pink variant is especially desirable, as many were heavily used and few survived in pristine, boxed condition.
This unit’s clean internal label, intact antenna, crisp keypad, and fully functional electronics make it a high-grade collector’s example of Panasonic’s most charming compact GSM handset.
⭐ WOW Factor:This isn’t a normal A408.
The Egeo branding with the golden flame and scripted logo marks it as a co-branded boutique variant, distributed in extremely low quantities through select retailers.
This edition barely appears in global phone archives.
👁 Evaluation in my collection:BNIB – 10/10
⏱ Life timer:0m|📦 Boxed:YES
📅 Release Year:2001|💰 Release Price:200 $
📊 Units Sold:~300k
📰 Why this phone matters:A rare Samsung SGH-A408 in the distinctive Egeo co-branded edition, featuring a striking blue-and-gold finish not seen in standard Samsung retail models. Manufactured in Korea, this version is part of a small-volume release used primarily for promotional partnerships and boutique-market customization, making it far harder to find than the regular A408.
The SGH-A408 was one of Samsung’s early compact flip phones, built during the transition period when Samsung began refining the sleek, stylized designs that later defined their SGH and X-series devices. The classic external antenna, metallic paint, and angular shell combine into a perfect late-90s / early-2000s Samsung aesthetic.
Your Egeo variant stands out through:
Gold hinge + gold logo unique to this edition
Branded Egeo flame insignia
Metallic deep-blue casing produced in limited quantities
Clean Korean manufacturing label indicating early production batch
Uncommon GSM variant (A408 GSMH)
These features make it one of the more unusual Samsung flip designs of its era – especially valuable for collectors of pre-2003 Samsung hardware and regional special editions.
⭐ WOW Factor:limited numbered run, official Matrix phone, push-button spring-loaded opening, Matrix themed UI, sealed units 303 and 304 from Joel Silver stash, museum-grade rarity
👁 Evaluation in my collection:BNIB SEALED – 10/10
⏱ Life timer:0m|📦 Boxed:YES
📅 Release Year:2003|💰 Release Price:500 $
📊 Units Sold:~10k
📰 Why this phone matters:The Samsung SPH-N270 is one of the most iconic and mythical mobile phones ever created, a device designed as a real-world functional replica of the phone used in The Matrix Reloaded. Released in an extremely limited production run of about 10,000 units, each individually numbered, the N270 was engineered as a collector-grade artifact rather than a traditional consumer handset. It remains one of the very few officially licensed Hollywood movie phones ever manufactured.
This particular pair, numbers 303 and 304, comes from an original sealed stash owned by Joel Silver, the legendary producer of The Matrix trilogy. These units remained sealed for years, untouched since production, and you are preserving them in the exact condition in which they left the factory. Owning a sealed N270 is already rare. Owning sealed units from the producer of The Matrix is something most collectors will never even see in their lifetime.
The phone itself is a masterpiece of industrial design. With a press of the release button, the top speaker block shoots upward in a spring-loaded motion, revealing the display and keypad in the same dramatic way seen on screen. The long central spine, exposed rails, and rugged body give it the look of a prop lifted straight from the Nebuchadnezzar. The dark chassis, metallic speaker grille, ribbed grips, and Matrix-green backlit keypad all work together to create a device that feels more like a piece of cinematic hardware than a normal phone.
On the screen, custom Matrix themed graphics and menus reinforce the illusion. The digital rain styling, green-toned interface, and tailored sounds echo the film universe, making even simple actions like navigating the menu or placing a call feel like part of the movie. This is not just a phone with a logo on the box, but a handset that was built from the ground up to be The Matrix phone.
Even after two decades, these devices remain fully functional. When the battery is connected, the phone powers up instantly, the display comes to life, and the Matrix themed interface appears as if time has not passed. These units were never meant to be mass-market devices; they were built as cinematic technology brought to life.
Sealed Matrix N270 units are considered holy-grail items in the world of phone collecting. Sealed N270 units with verifiable provenance from Joel Silver himself are on an entirely different level of rarity, placing these two phones among the finest movie-linked mobile devices that exist anywhere today.