My Handset History
It’s well time for some mobile phone nostalgia so I decided to delve into my own personal mobile handset history just to remind myself of what they were like. They’ve been frying my brain for over a decade so a good homage is due. Ericsson GA628 I was early enough to the game, with my first phone in January 1998. You can tell from this picture that it didn’t exactly fit into the hand. Information and menus scrolled from left to right across one line. It was a year later that I sent my first text - they weren’t known of before that. Ericsson T18s Here’s a step up. This had a flip open, was small and had voice dialing, all very cool. I even bought me one of these fancy mini querty attachments. Nokia 7110 Back then I was Ericsson and Nokia was for the masses but I caved … There’s more