My cell phones now and then

My first cellphone was a Motorola International 5200. The year was 1995, it was late summer and I was about to start the military service which would last for 17 months. I remember the excitement over this brick. Well it was not extremely big. Its ancestors were much bigger. Still it was very big, ugly and clumsy if you think back. But at the time it could not be better. Here are pictures of the model I found on Google images.




Nowadays I actually have two, a Sony Ericsson w880i and an Apple iPhone. These two are very different from each other but they both have rather complex functionality and serves my needs. The Sony Ericsson w880i is very thin and is a light-weight phone. I use it mainly as a walkman with a wireless bluetooth headset connected to it.


The iPhone is a rare and new experience. It is a bit bigger but has a completely new user experience which is very appealing. Together with this I like that it uses the wireless network that I configure it to use whenever it is in reach. There is also an extensive development going on for iPhone applications which makes it interesting. What I don't like about this is that I can not connect my Sony Ericsson bluetooth headset to it. It seems as I have to buy the iPhone headset to make it work. But since this headset is only for one ear I can only use it to listen to phone calls and not music.

I have had quite a few phones in between and one can say that these two most recent are definately very different from Motorola International 5200. It has been a great evolution in 13 years and just imagine what will happen in the 10 next to come.

What do you think? Bigger, smaller, thinner, thicker, implanted in your head?