Did you know Nokia Mobira Senator? (The first Nokia Mobile Cell Phone)

Nokia is a name that might soon fade out of existence, and that's kind of sad when you think about it. The company, now part of Microsoft, has been making phones for over 30 years, bringing a number of remarkable models along the way. "Remarkable", however, isn't the first adjective that comes to mind when we look at the Mobira Senator. Still, it was the phone that started it all - the first phone from Nokia, released in 1982.

The Nokia Mobira Senator (1982) was the first Nokia Mobile phone that hit the market paving the way for another nearly 30 years of success. To look at the Mobira Senator didn’t resemble what would be considered a mobile phone. The Mobira was heavy mainly due to the battery technology at the time (22 lbs or 10 kilograms)
As of 2011 these phones are highly collectable as most were put I landfill more than 25 years ago. These pioneering mobile phones used a network that was the standard at the time called the Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT) Standard

The Mobira brand name emerged in 1979, after Nokia merged with an electronics company called Salora. Two years later, in 1981, Finland's first cell phone system was launched, and Mobira was hard at work building phones for the new network. This 1st-generation (1G) analog standard was known as NMT-450 and ran on the 450MHz VHF band.

As for the Mobira Senator, it was launched in 1982 and was marketed as a phone for in-car use. Sure, you could carry it around, although its weight of 9.8 kg (22 lb.) made that a challenging task. They didn't have lithium-ion batteries back then, you know. Today, the Mobira Senator is one of the rarest cell phones that have ever existed, which is not surprising given its age.

So, what's your favorite Nokia phone ever? Let us know in the comments!