At times, it is easy to forget the progress that has been made over a period of time. The mobile sector is particularly one in which innovations come by the day.

For me, its been years of adventure in mobility, from my first phone, a very basic Motorola T2288 to my present, the Nokia E90 communicator. The T2288 had a WAP 1.1 browser, I used the browser only on a few occassions and that in the later part of its lifetime with me – and, was it limited or what?

And do you remember those horrible antennas that stick out at the top of most phones then?

In contrast, the E90 has a highly capable web browser (that matches Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 in some ways and is better in others), office editing tools, a capable e-mail client, instant messaging apps, and much more. I used to have a desktop at home and a laptop. I no longer do. My E90 fulfills their roles so well that i only use a PC at the office now. The present crop of devices outgun and out-everything mobile that was available then. They also outgun the PCs of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Here’s a list of all the mobiles I have used till date (regularly updated):

1. Motorola T2288
2. Nokia 3310
3. Ericsson R320s
4. Alcatel 311
5. Ericsson R380s – my very first ’smartphone’ (December 2002)
6. Motorola MT7800 (an ugly big brute)
7. Nokia 3410 (March 2003)
8. Motorola “Accompli” 008 smartphone (April 2003)
9. Sagem MY-X5m
10. NEC N21i
11. Nokia 9210 communicator – had it a few days
12. Siemens SL45 – few days too; and my first phone with a memory card
13. Telme T910
14. Nokia 6610
15. Siemens M55 – my first experience with browsing GPRS and MMS, during GloMobile’’s test-run
16. Samsung x100
17. Motorola C336 – most useless battery life on any phone I ever used: approx. 1 hour standby
18. Sony Ericsson T230
19. Sony Ericsson P800 smartphone
20. Telme T919 smartphone – a replacement phone I had for a few days
21. Sony J5
22. nokia 3610
23. Trium 110 (November 2003)
24. Siemens S55
25. Sony Ericsson T68i
26. Nokia 9500 communicator- the phone that lasted the longest in my hands (April 2005)
27. Nokia 7250
28. Nokia 2285 – CDMA
29. Nokia E61 smartphone (August 2006)
30. Nokia E61i smartphone (July 2007)
31. Palm Treo 700P pocket PC – CDMA (November 2007)
32. Sony Ericsson P990i smartphone (January 2008)
33. Sony Ericsson P1i smartphone (February 2008)
34. ZTE A61
35. HTC Titan/Sprint Mogul pocket PC – CDMA (June 2008)
36. Samsung i780 pocket PC (July 2008)
37. Sony Ericsson T650i (october 2008)
38. Samsung i900 “Omnia” pocket PC (october 2008)
39. Nokia E90 communicator (october 2008)
40. LG KS360 (april 2009)
41. T-mobile G1 (may 2009)