Where possible, we’ve added a link to the device in question, so you can marvel in wonderment.ġ981 – The world’s first international cellular mobile telephone network – NMT – opened in Scandinavia with Nokia introducing the first car phones for the networkġ991 – The world’s first genuine GSM call made using Radiolinja’s network, supplied by Nokia (with a Nokia car phone)ġ992 – The Nokia 100 series, the first family of handportable phones for all analog networks.ġ992 – Nokia 6050 car phone, the first GSM car phoneġ992 – The Nokia 1011, the first GSM hand-portable phoneġ992 – The Nokia 6000, the first TDMA phoneġ994 – The Nokia 2100 series, the first digital handportable phones supporting data, fax and the Short Message Service.ġ994 – The Nokia 2110 introduces the iconic ‘Grand Valse’ monophonic ring toneġ996 – The Nokia 9000 Communicator, the first all-in-one phone, fax, calendar, e-mail and Internet in handportable size.ġ997 – The Nokia 8110i, the first mobile phone with a dynamic menu supporting Smart Messaging.ġ997 – The Nokia 3810, the first mobile phone specially designed for Asian consumers, with a large full-graphics display and Asian language interfaces.ġ997 – The Nokia Cellular Card Phone, a PC card with a built-in GSM phone. This week we’ll be taking a walk through Nokia’s archives and highlighting some of the things from the past that have helped shape the present and continue to help paint a picture of the future. That was a Nokia first, you see, and below you’ll find a whole bunch more, like the first GSM car phone, the first WAP phone and the first phone with predictive text. Okay, it wasn’t 3G capable (what was, then?), and it didn’t fit into a USB slot (the first USB-equipped computer wouldn’t launch for another year) but it did enable users to connect to the Internet from their not-very-portable, er, portable.
Did you know Nokia had one back in 1997? A whole 11 years ago. GLOBAL – So mobile broadband dongles are the big thing right now.