GSM PHONES

I have collected a variety of GSM phones over the years. The picture shows a "clamshell" Motorola StarTAC 130, the GSM900 model MG2-4D11 from around 1999. Then there is the Nokia 2110, the definite business mobile of the mid 1990s. A Siemens C35 dual band (900/1800 Mhz) introduced in the year 2000. A Nokia 6230i with 32Mb and 208x208 camera, released in 2004. The tiny foldable Samsung SGH-A800 with mini SIM, announced Q4 2002, and a Doro PhoneEasy 410gsm with built-in FM radio, launched in 2010. 

Before the GSM era several people relied on pagers, wireless telecommunications devices that receive and display messages. Emergency services still use pagers for backup. Here is a Motorola pager bought in 1999. 

Not a GSM but a gadget used for early telephone banking was a telephone tonepad, introduced by NatWest bank in 1988 for their Actionline customers. It was intended for customers that still had a phone that used pulse dialling instead of tone dialling. The Actionline keypad had a small loudspeaker that could be held against the mouthpiece of a dial telephone to transmit the tones of the number keys. 

Soon I will add smartphones to my collection because they go obsolete while you wait.