Nokia
6110

The 6110 was a landmark phone for Nokia. It was first GSM mobile phone to use an ARM-based processor. This was manufactured by Texas Instruments. The ARM architecture would go on to be the cornerstone of mobile phone compute power for decades. The 6110 also had a revolutionary user interface known as Series 20 (which had the codename "Jack UI") and it was the first Nokia phone to feature the iconic Snake game. One additional "first" on this device was the integrated infrared port which allowed the phone to connect to a laptop, PDA or printer with an infrared port. The inclusion of this technology had been pioneered on the Nokia 8110 which had an infrared "dongle" that could be clipped onto the base of the phone and paired with a second "dongle" that attached to a PCMCIA card inserted into a laptop computer. The introduction of built in games gives the Nokia 6110 a unique place in history as it was the first Nokia phone to feature a mobile version of the popular computer game, Snake. Snake required you to control a pixelated snake as it moved around the screen, feeding it to make it grow bigger but all the time ensuring that it never caught its own tail. This game proved incredibly popular, being loaded onto millions of mobiles and is credited as being a key factor in kick-starting the mobile gaming business. Two other games were also launched at the same time and came preloaded on the Nokia 6110. These were Logic which involved working out combinations of symbols and memory which requires you to match up pairs of symbols that are hidden beneath cards within the least number of moves. When Nokia launched the 6110, it described the phone in its TV commercial as "the perfect size for your hand and your pocket" as well has having “everything you want in a mobile phone, plus a few extras you might not expect”. The extras comprised the infrared port, three games (including Snake) a calendar and a calculator. Some information courtesy of Nigel Linge & Andy Sutton, the authors of 30 Years of Mobile Phones in the UK (Paid Link)