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Vodafone VT1 was used by Michael Harrison to call his father Sir Ernest Harrison on January 1, 1985 .

Among his picks are the iconic Nokia 3210, the device used by the villainous Gordon Gekko in 1987 classic film Wall Street.

The first 'smartphone' with 'apps' IBM Simon was the device that could be called a 'smart' borne from a 'computer in your pocket' Expert Ben Wood is founder and curator of the Mobile Phone Museum .

The Nokia 2110 was the first phone to feature the iconic Nokia ringtone, based on the ' Gran Vals' guitar riff written by Spanish musician Francisco Tarrega .

The Nokia 8110 became immortalised thanks to its 'flip phone' action in the 1999 sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix .

The N-Gage was an ambitious move by Nokia into the gaming industry, but its distinctive design earned it the nickname the ' Taco phone'.

Nokia N95 was billed as an 'all-in-one multimedia computer' Blackberry Curve 8520 was the 'killer product from Blackberry , it had free text messages via the BBM service' BlackBerry was originally the 'businessman's tool' but this model took the concept to the masses.

More than 2.3 billion phones have sold since its launch in 2007 .

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