Mobile Phone Museum has 2800 handsets, many of them quite bizarre

Originally published at: Mobile Phone Museum has 2800 handsets, many of them quite bizarre - Boing Boing

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Where’s the fun in that? My local community history museum has a neat little display about old telephones and switchboards and the best part is that they’re all hooked up and functional so you can use the phones to call each other.

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The mobile phone I loved the best was one that used the earbud wires as a radio antenna, so I could listen to live radio as I walked around. I think it was a Moto? Loved that phone, so sad when it failed…& now the carriers probably won’t support it anyway.

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I worked at SonyEricsson at their Lund, Sweden how; during their peak awesome years 2006-2008. Just before the iphone ate everyone’s lunch.
I was part of R&D support… ie. Providing feedback to engineering, from field testers, and was given a copy of every phone in prep-production; which unofficial policy was we could do what we wanted with them.
So many cool phones, with best in breed cameras and/or music players.

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The best phone design ever:

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