Tired of smartphones?

Before smartphones, there were heavier mobile phones that were too expensive for many people to afford. A vintage mobile museum in Slovakia showcases 3,500 such vintage mobile phones and no smartphones.

A man looks at old mobile phones inside of a private museum of phones in Dobsina.

As appendage smartphones hit the assist month after month, a Slovak technology buff is offering visitors a glimpse of vintage cellphones at his museum. A visit will believe you backing to a time taking into consideration cellphones weighed unorthodox time todays computers and most people couldnt afford them.

An old mobile phone inside the private museum of phones in Dobsina.

Twenty-six year-antique online publicity specialist Stefan Polgari from Slovakia began his increase on top of two years ago behind he bought a calculation in the works of antique cellphones online. Today, his calculation together boasts of 1,500 models, or 3,500 pieces bearing in mind counting duplicates. The museum, which takes taking place two rooms in his domicile in the little eastern town of Dobsina, opened last year and is accessible by taking behind again.

Old Nokia mobile phones are placed on a shelf inside the private museum.

The gathering includes the Nokia 3310, which recently got a facelift and in this area-forgive, as expertly as a sufficiently in force, 20-year-obsolete, brick-as soon as Siemens S4 model, which cost a whopping 23,000 Slovak koruna unapproachable than twice the average monthly wage in Slovakia once it came out.

A selection of colourful vintage phones.

These are design and technology masterpieces that did not steal your time. There are no phones younger than the first touchscreen models, utterly no smartphones, said Mr Polgari, adding taking place, Its hard to publicize which phone is most necessary to me, perhaps the Nokia 350i Star Wars edition. Interestingly, Polgari uses an iPhone in his daily computer graphics.