Launch year
1994. 1994 is almost prehistory on this map: brick phones, IBM Simon, early Nokia. If this was your first mobile, it was probably a family object, not a teenage one.
Nokia
Nokia is the spine of this catalog. Candybars, covers, N-series cameras, and phones that survived a school bag. If you remember one brand before the iPhone, it is often this one.
This map only keeps phones from 1994 through June 2007, before the original iPhone went on sale in the United States.