UK's favourite mobile phone named - hint it starts with i
April 5th 2010 06:04
Apple iPhone The iPhone may be a relative newcomer to the world of mobile - launched in 2007 - but the shiny touchscreen slice of hardware has come top of a poll of the nation's favourite mobile devices of the last 25 years.
The University of Salford polled 2,000 Brits to ask them to vote on the most iconic mobile, and Apple's modern classic - designed by Brit Jonathan Ive - grabbed the largest share of hearts and minds, with 13.5 per cent of the vote.
"The Apple iPhone is a design classic and has truly transformed the design of mobile phones," said professor Nigel Linge, head of the Computer Networking and Telecommunications Research department at The University of Salford.
"Personally I'm nostalgic for the Motorola StarTAC, which was the world's first clamshell phone but it fell outside of our top 10, being in 12th place," he added in a statement.
So what other mobile devices have lodged in the nation's mind since the mid-1980s? Click through the following pages to see the best of the rest...
Photo credit: Apple
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