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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louis058
October 30th
2. Well, it's nice to see a change for once. Iphone still the best imo, but HTC Hero has done quite well.
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beefstirfry
October 30th
1. Where you actually scared to put the 3GS at number 1? Or was it because you wanted the fanbois to send you death threats?
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harry
October 30th
0. If you're going to include handsets that aren't out yet (the HD2) then why not have the Droid instead/as well as the Hero or Dext. It surely beats them both with it's features and Android 2.0.
I've got the Samsung Galaxy and I'd say it was better than the Hero as well as far as Android phones go. Better hardware anyway, and you can install Sense on it making the software issue moot.
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backstroker
October 30th
-1. Venerable?
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