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First cell phone call
The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. -
First Commercial Mobile Phone
In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The handset offered 30 minutes of talk-time, six hours standby, and could store 30 phone numbers. It also cost $3995. -
Nokia Improves cell phone
Nokia’s first 'handheld' mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900, launched in 1989 and weighed just 800g – a huge improvement over 1982’s 9.8kg Mobira Senator model. -
Nokia 6110
Three games: Memory, Snake, Logic
Calculator, clock and calendar
Currency converter
Works as a pager
Profile settings
4 colours -
Motorola StarTAC
Inspired by the communicator from Star Trek, this bad boy was the world’s first clamshell handset. Another first for Motorola. -
Nokia 5110
Excellent battery, slim by 1998’s standards, and it also featured Snake. What more could a 90s consumer want? Dimensions 48 x 132 x 31 mm
Battery 900 mAh NiMH
Display 47 x 84 B/W -
BlackBerry 850
The BlackBerry 850 was the first handset released under the BlackBerry brand. Ten years later, RIM would be crowned the fastest growing company on the planet. -
Nokia 3310
The phone that all of your mates had at school – if you went to school in the mid-to-late-90s, that is. Even in 2013, many regard the 3310 as one of the best mobile devices ever created. Some even say it’s indestructible -
Samsung SGH-T100
Before Samsung took over the world it made handsets like this, which was the first phone ever to use a thin-film transistor active matrix LCD display.
