Philips
Fizz

The Philips Fizz (TCD 312) was introduced in 1996. The Fizz was the phone that arguably started Philips off in the mobile phone business. All Philips phone launched prior to the Fizz were either branded variants of other people's phones, such as numerous products from Nokia, or poor in-house efforts from PKI in Germany. The Fizz came from Philips' dedicated mobile phone facility in Le Mans, France. It had a monochrome screen that could display 3 x 12 characters with fixed icons. The phone book stored telephone numbers and associated names within the SIM card. Call registers logged the last 10 dialled calls and the last 10 received calls, including both answered and missed calls. Call timers recorded the duration of the most recent call together with a cumulative total. It could both send and receive SMS text messages.