The ten best Cell Phones ever made

[T_i_B]

I'll leave you lot to decide if this is a load of old cobblers or not.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article321357.ece

We've come a long way from the mobile-phone's first incarnation, as a "luggable" 5lb military radio for use by US soldiers during the Second World War, to the sleek likes of the Motorola V3 - a cameraphone so skinny it can hide behind a tower of SIM cards.

So what can we expect next? While only a few years ago manufacturers like Nokia would launch just four phones a year - to be released globally and regardless of its customers' sex, age, or religion - now the company is releasing at least 10 times that number annually, all carefully targeted. There are mobile phones - or, rather, mobile phone-capable devices - for every niche market: phones for Muslims which point you towards Mecca when it's time to pray, phones for workaholics that allow for continuous email delivery, and in the US there are phones for pets that need a constant reassuring voice in their ear. Add to this phones with blood-testing capabilities for diabetics and with fingerprint-recognition for spies, and you can see that the possibilities are endless.

However, for the generations who grew up with the industry, there are also some phones that will never be forgotten. These are the phones that were, and in some cases still are, the very best.

Motorola DynaTAC

Nokia Cityman

The Motorola StarTAC

Nokia 8210

Sony Ericsson T610

KDDI Talby

Motorola V3 RAZR

Isamu Sanada HiPod

Nokia 8800

Vodafone Simply

[stlsaxman]

1. Which one did they use in (the first) The Matrix?

I know it was a Nokia but not sure of the model number...

anyways, THAT's the one I want!

if i bought a used one would it still work?

[T_i_B]

2. I think that was the Nokia 7110

It was an early WAP phone. I think it would still work if you brought one, although you might still get a few trendy types sneering at your old phone.

[Kellanved]

3. IIRC it was a custom modified 8110

The nokia matrix ads were for the 7110, but the cell in the movie was a 8110 fitted with a spring mechanism.

8110:




7110:



The Movie:

[stlsaxman]

6. Yeah, the Nokia 8110!!

Thanks! going to eBay right now! :)

[tigereye]

9. nerd!

;) :hi:

[jmm]

4. My first cell phone was a Nokia 8210

One of the guys at the store said to me when I was looking at it that he didn't know why people liked it because it was too small for a real person's hands. I told him not all of us have pudgy fingers and asked another salesman for assistance.

[chenGOD]

5. Holy crap...they just basically ignored Japan and South Korea

One representative from Japan?

The Motorola RAZR is badly outdated over here (South Korea) and Nokia has never done well here...ah well.

[T_i_B]

7. That's because this is a UK article

And Nokia phones have tended to do very well over here. (I have a Nokia myself for instance).

[chenGOD]

8. Ah yes, I failed to note your first line...

So I will judge..."load of old cobblers" it is then. :)