Years

1994 to June 2007. Each year is a station. The original iPhone is the end of the line.

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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.
1995 1995 still looks like the 1980s in the hand. Antennas, thick batteries, short talk time. The 2140 sits here as a working Nokia, not a design piece.
1996 1996 is StarTAC and the 8110 banana phone. Clamshells and Matrix-era curves. People remember the hinge more than the menu.
1997 1997 is Snake on a Nokia 6110. Games were a hidden extra. The phone was still for calls.
1998 1998 is swappable covers and chrome. The 5110 taught a generation that a phone could look like yours. The 8810 tried to look like jewellery.
1999 1999 is WAP, the 3210, and the 7110 slide. The web on a phone was a rumour that sometimes loaded. You still wrote SMS with your thumb.
2000 2000 is the 3310 year in memory, even when the box said another model. Batteries lasted. Covers clicked. It is the boring classic this map needs.
2001 2001 is colour screens arriving without apps. The 5510 had a music keyboard. Most people still bought a phone that only had to ring.
2002 2002 is cameras, round keypads, and China brands beside Nokia. The 7650 took photos that looked like stamps. Bird sold a fighter-jet slogan.
2003 2003 is Symbian in a pocket, N-Gage as a taco, and Amoi dancing in ads. The 1100 sold in the tens of millions with a torch.
2004 2004 is the RAZR. Thin metal. A clamshell as fashion. 3G starts to mean something if you had a 6630. Most lines still ran on 2G pride.
2005 2005 is Walkman phones, Cyber-shot cameras, PEBL stones, and iTunes on a ROKR. Music and photos fight the keypad for attention.
2006 2006 is Chocolate, XpressMusic, N73, stainless 6300. Touch is a rumour. Slide phones and black glass still feel like the future.
2007 2007 on this map only runs to June. N95, Shine, and the original iPhone as the last station. Anything announced after that month stays off the line.

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