Today’s telephony market is not too attentive to the concept of uniqueness, icon or collector’s item when it comes to the smartphone. We are interested in other features of this device that is so important for our everyday life. Furthermore, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and all the other manufacturers are pushing users to change their smartphone every year, so that we forget about the previous one soon.
Yet all the features we find today in the devices are based on the common ground left by mobile phones from the early 2000s or the last century. An era made up of simple, inexpensive, reliable and long-lasting tools that the collecting market is gradually rediscovering. It is rather creating a real economic bubble around rarer mobile phone models, so as to move mind-boggling figures! Among the most sought after models, we find style icons like Nokia and Ericsson, or the first phones from Apple or Samsung.
Old phones that are worth a fortune- check in the attic!
Unbelievable but true, if you’ve ever handled a 2007 iPhone 2G, know that it can be worth well over 200 euros. In fact, the most avid collectors of Apple are willing to pay even1000 euros for a copy in perfect condition still in the box.
Back in 1984, however, the famous Motorola DynaTac 8000x debuted in series, the first real one-kg mobile phone (against today’s 150 grams) that today is worth as much as it weighs. But the American house is also remembered for another mobile, Motorola RazrV3. Released in 2004, it was one of the first color display phones. Aesthetically beautiful, light and with a backlit keyboard, today it can be worth over 150 euros.
Unthinkable then the story of the first portable Nokia, or the Mobira Senator: today it is sold among collectors for a figure close to one thousand euros. But the most famous cousin of the early 2000s is undoubtedly the true champion of the Finnish house. Let’s talk about Nokia 3310- indestructible and reliable, with the inevitable first version of Snake can be worth 130 euros if in perfect condition. Finally, another very attractive mobile on the vintage market is the Nokia 8810: a compact design that drives enthusiasts to pour up to 100 euros into your pocket.
Ericsson, along with Nokia, is also one of the first mass-produced phones. One of the models that most revolutionized the design of the time was the T28. It was light, with little thickness, it had a door that protected the keys and implemented writing with T9. The only aesthetic flaw was perhaps the cicciotta antenna at the top, and in any case in good condition can yield a few hundred euros.
