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My first mobile phone was not a Nokia but a Motorola which I still have just like the first Nokia banana

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/11

A while ago someone asked on Twitter if people had mobile phones in the early 1990’s.

I bought my first GSM phone in 1995. Unlike my other mobile non-smart phones that were from Nokia, this one was from Motorola.

It was the international GSM version of the Motorola MicroTAC series (see picture below) which by then was way more affordable and smaller than the Nokia devices (see Nokia 2010 – Wikipedia and Nokia 2110 – Wikipedia).

This was in the age that world wide there were various competing mobile phone network standards.

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