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Phone brands and models iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. A text version, "Phone brands/models (V1.5)" by Yugoslavia, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 676 views as of 29 October 2026.[1]

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "stuff about phones + well known/obscure devices and phone brands. A collab iceberg"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

Tiers[edit]

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version[1]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Layer 1: basic info[edit]

  • Apple
  • Motorola
  • Google
  • Samsung
  • Xiaomi
  • Iphone
  • Galaxy Z series
  • Galaxy S series
  • Redmi series
  • Edge series
  • POCO series
  • Pixel series
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Phone addiction – lets be honest. almost everyone of yall are addicted to your phone
  • PURA Series

Layer 2: shallow waters[edit]

  • OnePlus
  • Realme
  • Nothing
  • Nokia
  • Huawei
  • Vivo
  • Lenovo
  • OPPO
  • Galaxy Note series
  • Nokia 3310
  • Nokia 1100
  • Nokia 1110
  • HyperOS
  • NothingOS
  • ColorOS
  • OxygenOS
  • Bluetooth
  • Foldable smartphone
  • Old prediction of future iPhone – Remember when they tried to predict what iPhone 10 would look like?
  • MATE Series
  • Battery Health – Kinda obvious...

Layer 3: bottom of a pool[edit]

  • The first ever phone – The first mobile phone (Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, 1983) cost nearly ($4,000), weighed over 1kg, and required 10 hours to charge for 30 minutes of talk time.
  • Sony
  • BlackBerry
  • LG
  • LG Chocolate
  • LG Wing
  • Galaxy A series
  • Motorola Razr
  • Nokia XpressMusic – A line of Nokia mobile phones that were specially designed for music playback.
  • Rabbit R1 – Not really a phone but rather an AI device
  • Nokia 7280 – Phone or Lipstick?
  • N-Gage – weird Nokia phone for gaming
  • Bluetooth name origin – "Bluetooth" is named after a 10th-century Nordic king, Harald Blatand (Bluetooth), who united Scandinavian tribes.
  • The first ever SMARTphone – the Ericsson GS88 "Penelope" from 1997
  • Tri-fold smartphone – The Huawei Mate XT is the world's first double-folding, or tri-fold foldable smartphone, released in September 2024. The device can be used with a case that has a kickstand, and a foldable keyboard…
  • Phones are dirtier than a toilet seat – Studies shows that phones have 18 to 30 times more bacteria than a toilet seat/rim or doorknob/handle
  • Multilaser
  • Full battery cycles before failing – around 300-500 for an older phone, 800+ for newer phones.

Layer 4: small taste of the unknown[edit]

  • The first ever text sent on a phone – The first SMS message was sent in 1992 and said "Merry Christmas".
  • iQoo
  • The most expensive phone ever.
  • Sony erricson
  • The first ever cell phone call – Made by Martin Cooper in 1973, who famously prank-called a rival at Bell Labs.
  • HarmonyOS
  • Windows phone
  • Windows
  • 2018/2022
  • 2007/2014/2016
  • O2 Xda – The O2 Xda brand was a range of Windows Mobile PDA phones, marketed by O2, developed by O2 Asia and manufactured by multiple original equipment manufacturers (mainly HTC, Quanta and Arima). The first…
  • Clicks – Keyboard cases for touchscreen phones (we go full circle with this one)
  • Clicks Communicator – Clicks brand makes Clicks phone
  • Siemens Mobile – later became BenQ-Siemens then defunct in 2007
  • Phones for Blind people

Layer 5: deep dive[edit]

  • Amazon
  • ASUS
  • Amazon Fire phone
  • Samsung Juke
  • Motorola flipout
  • YotaPhone
  • Light
  • Palm
  • BlackberryOS
  • Symbian
  • Vertu Signature Cobra – Limited only 8 pieces worldwide. I remember when it came out it was the most expensive phone I can ever think of.
  • Motorola V70 – just a weird ol' phone

Level 6: very cold abyss[edit]

  • Fairphone
  • Goophone
  • HTC
  • Meitu – Chinese tech company famous for making selfie apps, also has its own smartphone product line.
  • Nomophobia – "Nomophobia" is the fear or anxiety of being without your mobile phone.
  • Steve Jobs made a prank call when introducing the first iPhone – When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, the Apple CEO used it to make a public prank call, ordering 4,000 lattes from a nearby Starbucks.
  • Vertu Constellation Touch
  • Light Phone I
  • Light Phone II
  • Light Phone III
  • KaiOS
  • Project Ara – Google's modular smartphone project which is cancelled.

Level 7: WHAT IS ALL THIS??[edit]

  • Urine = charge (???) – Scientists have developed ways to charge phones using human urine.
  • CAT
  • Dior
  • The galaxy note 7 kaboom incident
  • Initial greeting – Alexander Graham Bell proposed "Ahoy" as the standard telephone greeting, not "Hello"
  • GrapheneOS
  • postmarketOS
  • Card Phone CM1 – Mobile phone with the size of a card released around 2012. It was designed by CARD, a product brand from Singapore.
  • Beeline B2011A – A cell phone which only sold in Vietnam around 2011, manifactured by telecom brand Beeline before it left the market. It was a viral item for being super cheap (about $5 with a SIM card) and for its…
  • ArcaneOS – custom rom installed on some phones, used by the FBI to catch criminals

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yugoslavia. Phone brands/models (V1.5). IcebergThreads. 23 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
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