Motorola
V.box (V100) green

The Motorola V.Box V100 was released in 2000. It's unusual clamshell design featured a full QWERTY keyboard that was ideally suited to composing and sending  SMS text messages. It also had a large 126 x 64 pixel resolution screen capable of displaying seven lines of text and additional fixed icons. The address book could store 100 telephone numbers with associated names on the phone's memory with an additional 90 entries stored on the SIM card. There was a dedicated instant access phone book key located on the front edge of the phone. Speed dialling was available for the first nine entries and also voice dialling access for up to 25 of the phone book entries. Various call meters were provided with optional audible alerts and users could record short voice memos using the in-built VoiceNotes function. The V100 could be personalised by selecting one of 11 pre-installed ringtones. Users could also compose their own ringtones. Three games were included: Towers of Hanoi, Baccarat and Bricks. Basic internet access was provided using a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) browser which gave access to wml formatted websites. Some information courtesy of Nigel Linge & Andy Sutton, the authors of 30 Years of Mobile Phones in the UK (Paid Link)