Mobile phones by year

These are UK phones year by year. This is not an exhaustive list, but we have tried to capture a flavour of what people generally used. Apologies if we have missed your favourite model.

Analogue phones

1983

• Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

1985

• Motorola DynaTAC 8000S
• Technophone Excell M1/M2
• Technophone PC105
• British Telecom Opal (rebadged Motorola 8000S)

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1986

• Mitsubishi Roamer (also marketed as BT Pearl or Racal-Vodac VP15)
• Technophone PC115
• Technophone PC135

1987

• NEC 9A
• Motorola DynaTAC 8500X
• Nokia/Mobira Cityman 1320

1988

• British Telecom Coral (made by Kokusai)
• Philips PRC30E (made by Kokusai)
• Technophone PC205
• Cleartone CTN9000

1989

• Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
• British Telcom Ivory (made by Hitachi)
• OKi CDL 700E (Distributed through Martin Dawes in the UK)
• 1989 Maxon EPC590E
• 1989 Bosche Handy 450
• 1989 Hitachi CR-2170UK
• 1989 Ericsson Hotline
• 1989 Mitsubishi MT-3

1990

• Motorola DynaTAC 8800X
• NEC P3
• Nokia Cityman 100
• Nokia Cityman 190

1991

• Motorola DynaTAC 8800X

1992

• Ericsson EH97
• Mitsubishi MT7
• Motorola DynaTAC 8900X
• Motorola Independent
• Motorola Personal
• Motorola MicroTAC II
• NEC P4
• Nokia 101
• Nokia 121
• Sony CMH-333
• Swatch Cell Phone

1993

• BT Jade (rebadged NEC P100)
• Ericsson EH237
• NEC P100
• Nokia 100

1994

• Motorola DynaTAC 8900X-2
• Motorola 888
• Nokia 232
• Ericsson EH237
• Sony CM-R111

1995

• Motorola Flare L
• NEC P800

1996

• BT Jade II (rebadged NEC P800)
• Motorola a130

1997

• Nokia Ringo (available in the UK on Vodafone Pay as You Talk)

Digital phones 1991 to 2000

1991

• Oribitel TPU 900

1992

• Motorola 3200
• Nokia 1011

1993

• One2One M200 (Siemens)
• One2One M300 (Motorola)
• Oribitel 902

1994

• Ericsson GH337
• Motorola 5080
• Motorola 5200
• Motorola 7200
• Nokia 2010
• Nokia 2110
• Nokia 2140 (Nokia Orange)
• Orange MR1 (Motorola)

1995

• BT Roamer 600 (Ericsson)
• Motorola 7500
• Motorola 8200
• Motorola Flare

1996

• Ericsson GA318
• Motorola 8400
• Motorola 8700
• Motorola StarTAC 85
• Motorola StarTAC Lite
• Nokia 1610
• Nokia 2110i
• Nokia 8110
• Nokia 9000 Communicator
• Nortel m900
• Orbitel 903

1997

• Ericsson GA628
• Motorola 8900
• Motorola d160
• Motorola StarTAC 70
• Nokia 3110
• Orange MR201 (Motorola)

1998

• Ericsson GF768
• Nokia 5110
• Nokia 6110

1999

• Ericsson A1018
• Ericsson T28
• Motorola Timeport L7089
• Motorola v3688
• Nokia 3210
• Nokia 7110
• Nokia 8210
• Philips C12
• Segem 815

2000

• Nokia 3310
• Nokia 6210