Ericsson
R320 TITAN

The R320 TITAN is an extremely rare device. It is claimed to be the world’s first titanium mobile phone. When it was unveiled at the International Furniture Fair in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson stated that only 50 units were produced as part of a study on how titanium would perform as a material for mobile phones. It was never offered as a commercial product and was produced to experiment with new materials and design. Jan Ahrenbring, Vice President Marketing and Communications at Ericsson Mobile Communications, stated that developing the phone has been “extremely complex” for Ericsson’s engineers and designers. Although Ericsson claimed the device weighed less than 100 grams, the unit in our collection is approximately 110 grams. The device in the Mobile Phone Museum collection is a prototype, labelled as prototype number 16, which we assume was one of 50 manufactured.