The Gigaset GS160 was a budget Android smartphone from German manufacturer Gigaset, a brand long known for cordless home phones before moving into mobile in the mid 2010s. Like most Android devices of the era, it played a branded startup animation and chime on boot, designed to feel modern and reassuring. As physical units disappeared from daily use, recordings of that boot sequence were shared on soundboards and in tech archives, preserving a small piece of smartphone history that creators now reuse for nostalgia and realism.