Old School Fridays – First Cell Phone With An Internal Antenna

It was only a little of nine short years ago that all cell phones had antennas.  That’s right, if you remember cell phones either had a fixed antenna or some had antennas that you could retracted into the phone. The problem with antennas on phones is that they 1) always seemed to get in the way 2) they had to be extended to receive phone calls.

All that changed when Nokia introduced the Nokia 3210. The 3210 was the first cell phone to have an internal antenna. No need to have an antenna sticking out of the phone or extending an antenna to receive a signal.  The 3210 launched in 2009 with great fan fair. The phone sold over 160 million units which was a HUGE number at that time. We can all thank Nokia for their long lasting invention. Could you imagine having an antenna sticking out of your iPhone or Blackberry?