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Less than a week left until the most important event in the mobile world, we are all waiting for MWC 2016 and what we want to see: Samsung Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge and LG G5, the new chipset from Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, the 'Asian miracle' Xiaomi Mi 5, and more. In the meantime, let's brighten up the anticipation with a small excursion into the past, in 2011. It turns out that even then the manufacturers offered very interesting ideas to the viewer's judgment, and the smartphone already promised to become the device we are used to at present.
LG Optimus 3D: the first 3D phone
'We thought 3D would make it cool'
One of the biggest highlights of MWC 2011 was LG Optimus 3D, the first 3D phone to feature parallax, a 3D screen, and a dual camera for 3D video at the same time. The result fascinated us at first, and we hoped that the device promised a bright future for 3D devices, but we were wrong. 3D turned out to be just a tribute to fashion, it was replaced by much more exciting things like virtual reality.
Review LG Optimus 3D P920 on
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
The first and only gaming smartphone
The Xperia Play was a phone with a retractable gamepad. More such devices were not made. He was the first and only one of his kind, and we remember how he evoked dreams of a gaming career in us. True, this cute 4-inch phone was chubby and, worse, had a limited number of games. Sales were not great, and finally Sony decided not to continue this line, leaving us with pathetic gamepads for iPhone and Android, which only partly reproduce this feeling of a 'gaming phone '.
Review of Sony Ericsson Xperia Play at
Samsung Galaxy S II
The beginning of something great
The 4.3-inch Samsung Galaxy S II was a revelation: after a good start with the Galaxy S in 2010, the S II really caught the eye on the series. The phone sold like hotcakes: thin, great looking, with an incredibly powerful dual-core processor (the first for Samsung), it was powered by TouchWiz. And not just TouchWiz, but one of the first iterations, which were not the most useful features, but which looked futuristic enough to gain everyone's attention. The camera was also quite decent.
Samsung Galaxy S II review at 
Samsung Galaxy S II review at. Second part
First Facebook – phones
A separate button for Facebook is not such a bad idea for 2016
The first Facebook phones were nothing more than unusual Android – phones with a special blue button Facebook. Considering the growing dependence of people on this social network, not a bad idea, right? Facebook – The phones that came out in 2011, however, were so-so, both mid-range, and one with a physical keyboard that looked more like a tribute to the past than to the future.
One of the first metal devices shown
HTC leads the route with his HTC Desire S
2011 was the year HTC was at its prime and with huge sales, their phones looked stylish and set the tone for design. HTC The Desire S shown at MWC 2011 was not the company's flagship, but it was one of the first metal devices, foreshadowing future trends. Now our phones are thinner, look better, and the metal in the case has become a symbol of the premium status of the device.
Time for dual-core phones
Two is better than one
Did you know that we didn't actually have dual-core phones until 2011? The move to dual-core promises great performance progress, and chipset makers agree that this transition was much more important than the next one – from dual- to quad-core solutions, and then to eight-core solutions. Take a look at a quick comparison of the best performance phones.
'Childhood' Android Market
150,000 apps at nine months of age!
Android The market, now known as the Google Play Store, has just emerged and has been one of the key elements of Android success as a platform. It was accepted by the developers, and since it first had to seriously close the gap with the App Store, it was quite successful. There are over 1.5 billion apps in the Google Play Store now.
And now is the time to feel nostalgic in the comments for the owners of the aforementioned devices, for those who wanted, but never bought them, for those who have always had greener grass in the past, and just for everyone.