The year was 2010, and the was the coolest slab of plastic in your pocket. It didn’t have the flashy multitouch of an iPhone, but it had something better for a bored teenager: a resistive touchscreen that worked perfectly with a guitar pick and an endless hunger for "5230 Nokia Games Downloads."

That afternoon, the download finished. He had successfully snagged a copy of . On the 5230, it was a revolution—using the accelerometer to tilt the phone felt like magic.

But the real prize was . While the rest of the world played it on high-end devices, Leo’s 5230 chugged along, the birds flying in slightly lower frame rates, but the victory of three stars felt just as sweet. When he got bored of slingshots, he’d switch to Bounce Touch , the spiritual successor to the classic Nokia ball game, specifically redesigned for his stylus-driven world. The Low Battery Warning