Believe it or not, the Nokia 3210 is now over 10 years old. Selling over 150 million units, the 3210 was the first mobile to truly hit the big time and it was many people's first time phone.
Who doesn't remember playing Snake and composing a personal ringtone on the 3210? Back then, phones were used for making phone calls, texting was a new phenomenon and WAP was so hi-tech it was scary.
Equally scary is the notion that actually if you were born in the '90s, you're probably too young to have any knowledge of such exciting times.
Still, the phone industry is now so humungous it's worth over $24bn in India alone. Some stats suggest that the global mobile industry will be worth $200bn by 2012 – that's $33 for every human being on the planet.
And what's driving this recession-beating performance? It's the technology, stupid!
So here we have our 10 favourite mobile phones of the current crop, in reverse order, ending with what we consider to be the best mobile phone available today...
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dsj
Tuesday at 11:03 GMT
14. nitebot - 'The UK didn't have a national or even regional radio mobile phone network.'
I don't know how old 'nitebot' is but we had an automatic Radiophone System 4 network operational in London, in the summer of 1981. The coverage was extended to major population areas by 1983. We had a manual Radiophone System 1 in 1959 in South Lancashire and was later extended to cover London. Later there was System 2 which used 9 channels. System 3 used auto scanning 55 channel mobile but call were still connected by the operator. Automatic Radiophone system 4 ran till 1989 as celluar system took over with its base station handover capabilty. The rest is history as they say...
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zmcguiness
November 12th
13. You guys did really well, clearing that thing up about cell vs. mobile.
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bullitinn56
November 8th
12. moving, or capable of moving or being moved, from place to place, definition of Mobile, but a laptop is still a laptop and a caravan will never be a trailer or mobile home......
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nitebot
November 2nd
11. @rsmits
In America, you had the radio mobile phone before the cellular mobile phone, and handsets were known as 'mobile phones.' The UK didn't have a national or even regional radio mobile phone network.
When cellular mobile phone networks were created in America, it was decided to use the shorthand term 'cell phone' to distinguish handsets from the radio 'mobile phones.' But in the UK, the cell phone network was the first mobile network and so we just started calling handsets mobile phones.
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lovlid
November 2nd
10. @ rsmits.
And by the by, cell phone is short for cellular mobile. Check your Websters.
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lovlid
November 2nd
9. @ rsmits.
And how do the 'planes fly in your part of the world, because there is no such thing as "aluminum". And did you read Harry potter and the philosopher's stone, or Harry Potter and the Magic Boulder or whatever words you used to dumb it down.
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