Many people have just a few outdated telephones taking over area in drawers, and a few might even have saved particular gadgets of their packing containers after being put apart when upgrading, however now we have nothing on the person who has claimed the Guinness E book of Information’ title of getting the world’s largest assortment of cellphones. The variety of telephones within the assortment? A large 3,615.
Wences Palau Fernandez lives in Barcelona, Spain, and he obtained his first cell phone — a trusty Nokia 3210 — round 1999 as a Christmas present. In 2008, he started gathering Nokia telephones in earnest, apparently beginning out by buying the fashions that he’d be unable to afford earlier than. Initially housed in a number of show cupboards, the gathering quickly wanted its personal room when the quantity he owned reached 700 Nokia telephones some 10 years later. As we speak, it has grown even additional, and past some other assortment on the planet.
What’s unbelievable about Fernandez’s assortment is you possibly can truly see it. He has created a devoted web site with pictures and movies of his Nokia telephones, and it’s a tremendous look again over the historical past of the beloved model. Of explicit nostalgic curiosity are the Asha fashions which embrace a few of Nokia’s first touchscreen telephones, the Communicator collection which was the folding smartphone of its day, and the numerous analogue Nokia telephones together with a really uncommon Nokia 5130 Star Wars mannequin launched for Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace.
Whereas Nokia telephones appear to signify the majority of his assortment (and obsession), he additionally has telephones from a big selection of different producers together with recognizable names reminiscent of Apple, Samsung, LG, and Sony, together with much less widespread names reminiscent of luxurious telephone maker Vertu and Yezz, which as soon as had huge plans for modular telephones, plus outdated favorites from BlackBerry and Palm.
Fernandez took the Guinness World File away from Andrei Bilbie Argentis in Romania, who had solely managed to seize the title in 2023 by proudly owning 3,456 cellphones. It appears Fernandez remains to be actively gathering and rising his assortment — which he now sees as a museum — that means it might take one other, even bigger current assortment to change into public to ensure that it to be crushed within the very close to future.
