The Mobile Phone Museum has 2800 individual handsets in its collection, all beautifully (and consistently) photographed and described. The curators hunger for more.
The Mobile Phone Museum project was conceived by Ben Wood in 2004. In 2019 he joined forces with fellow mobile phone collector, Matt Chatterley and a year later they worked with a small team to create a not-for-profit entity which is now a registered charity. This is designed to safeguard this important collection of mobile technology heritage and help fund further growth.
The collection currently has over 2800 individual models from more than 250 different brands. There are over 6000 devices in total when duplicates are included.
When a device is donated, it is catalogued, labelled, photographed and moved to our secure storage facility. The flow of new devices continues on an almost daily basis. Each donor is recognised on the website.
Note a diversity of design and experimentalism absent in the age of identical glass rectangles. Some personal favorites I wouldn't mind owning: Sony-Ericsson's "Pink" W660i, the NTT DoCoMo Music Porter, the Aura, and the Nokia 7380. When I could have been living the life, of course, I was actually toting a boring business-class Moto Q.
See also Laptop Mag's listicle of wild cellphones, all old. I did in fact own the Samsung Upstage! It didn't seem odd at the time.
Previously: The Motorola Museum.
