Everything changed when the Nokia 3210 hit shelves in 1999. Nokia had been producing mobile phones for years, but its 3210 model was the first phone that nailed a winning formula of affordable price, reasonable size, and must-have functionality. As well as appealing to the mainstream market, it was also the first mobile phone to have a fully internal antenna – and it included the must-play Snake game too.

A year later, its successor, the Nokia 3310 (pictured) was released with a price tag of around $160 ($293/£227 today). Sleeker and more compact, the 3310 has sold over 126 million units since it first launched and remains one of the best-selling mobile phones of all time. When the first iPhone hit shelves in 2007, the industry was reinvented again. However, it was the launch of the Nokia 3310 that first introduced mobiles to the mainstream.

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