#Mobiles

Nokia 3210

The first phone that was genuinely a mass-market object rather than a business tool, with an internal aerial and a game everyone played.

Nokia 3310

Snake II, composer ringtones, and a reputation for surviving anything, which was mostly deserved.

Ringtone Adverts On Late-Night Telly

Subscription ringtone services advertised relentlessly, which signed up a generation to charges they could not cancel.

The Motorola RAZR

A flip phone thin enough to be a fashion object, sold on looks rather than function.

Texting On T9

Predictive text turned nine keys into a keyboard and created an entire dialect of abbreviations.

BlackBerry Messenger

Free messaging when texts still cost money, on a phone with a proper keyboard.