The mobile phone, or smartphone as we now tend to call it, has come a long way since its invention. To celebrate its 20th anniversary Japanese communications company NTT DoCoMo put together an actual display, illustrating the the evolution of its phone line.
While you probably can’t go see the physical installment, you can see this picture. Sure, it doesn’t show every phone every made by everyone and rather just the ones by DoCoMo, it still gives you a great look into the evolution of the device as whole, were it came from, and where it is now. Take a look over here: [Designboom]














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How the bloody hell does that ordering work?
There are arrows point down where the years are, so left to right but downwards. Although I don’t see how that works either given the indication.
I worked it out as top to bottom, but in chunks, so at the bottom of a square, it reverts to the top on the next column. It is really odd as you can’t see where one column ends and the next starts.
no Nokia Mango in that, that I can see – reckon it was 2005.
funny how there was a big colour boom in the mid 2000′s.