Skeumorphic icons, how would you change them?

On smartphones we see the phone app as an old school almost rotary style phone, but the issue is, this icon has become so easily and instantly recognizable by everyone as a phone. How do we get past this? In what ways could you change a phone icon, to look more modern, while still being easily recognizable?

Or any other examples for that matter, such as email being an envelope?

I know some might say, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it”, which is a good point! But I know there’s gotta be a way to do it right, just nobody’s quite figured it out yet.

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