I can still picture the days when mobile phones looked more like excess baggage than slick accessories – after all one would carry them around in suitcases.
Personally, I was kind of late to the game – but in the summer of 2001 I became the proud owner of my first mobile phone – a Siemens SL 45. Living in Munich, Germany at the time, the brand of my choice was never really in question. In any case: All I needed was a device to receive phone calls and send text messages – which is pretty....