Visit the mobile web museum

That’s what tech enthusiasts think Ben Wood and Matt Chatterley, so by the end of 2021 they’ve opened Museum Telephone move.

Museum Their collection is unusual, not only for its theme but also because the collection is online rather than housed in a building that you can visit.

Wood and Chatterley collected more than 2,200 smartphone models, including the first GSM mobile phone for a fully digital cellular network, the Motorola International 3200 from 1992. It was a “local” phone. brick” has an antenna and weighs more than half a kilogram.

During the 1990s, cell phones became increasingly pocket-friendly. Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens have built many models with stout antennas that weigh only about 300 grams and in some cases much smaller.

The collection also contains the ancient forerunners of the modern smartphone, such as the IBM Simon from 1993 or the Nokia 9000 Communicator foldable keyboard mobile phone from 1996.

In addition, the museum also houses the first mobile phone with a one-megapixel camera, the Sharp GX30, which was introduced to the market in 2004. Not long after that, the first major smartphone, the original iPhone, was released. launched in 2007 combined already popular hardware elements with a whole new kind of software and interface. The first Android smartphone, the HTC Dream, followed in 2008.

Museum categories can be filtered by type, brand and year, or by collection. Collections include Best Sellers, James Bond Phones, Ugliest, Firsts, Luxury and Fashion.

Among the best-selling mobile phones in the museum are the simple Nokia 3310 (2000) and Motorola’s Razr V3 flip phone (2004).

The First Collection includes the first devices in the series that have achieved global fame, such as the Sony Ericsson W800 (2005), the first Walkman phone, and the Samsung Galaxy S (2010), the predecessor to the S series. Famous Korean manufacturer.

The museum’s organizers are still looking for certain models to complete the collection and welcome donations. Donors will have their names on the website. Donations are cataloged, labeled, photographed and then securely stored.