The history of mobile phones displayed with models from the 1980s to 3G videophones. A woman's hand holds a clamshell model open


20 years after the first mobile phone call was made on the Vodafone UK network the company launched its 3rd generation product The Vodafone Live 3G was very different from the first basic handsets For the first time customers could make person to person video calls and send video messages Picture shows the Sony Ericsson Vodafone V800 3G mobile phone with old models Picture by Roger Bamber 10 November 2004


Size: 5130px × 3343px
Photo credit: © Roger Bamber / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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