It is 146 years since Alexander Graham Bell placed son first Telephone call but this took less time for the mobile phone falls largely out of use. They are not match for ubiquitous smartphones but for Ekrem Karagüdekoğlu, these are symbols of a bygone era with “more spirit.” Karagüdekoğlu, who recently beat a record of the Guinness World as owner of most grand cell phone souvenir with 2,779 mobile phones of 150 different brands, hopes to create a museum for his collection.
Karagüdekoğlu did not work hard select songs for his memories which he proudly exhibited at home car he is a mobile phone repair technician. However, over time, he expanded his collection by acquiring cell phones from other countries as well as.
Mobile phones, with their big and small buttons, obsolete in that time of touch screen technology adorn the shelves in two pieces of his house in Istanbul. Meticulously placed and labeled with notes on their bulky early 20th-century-like Motorola cellphones century from walkie-talkies, to Nokia pocket phones up the collection.
Karagüdekoğlu said he had always been an electronics enthusiast and started collecting cell phones as a hobby before he seriously started devoting time to creating the collection in 2010. Beyond what smartphone users now consider “relics” of 1990s, several communication devices resembling mobile phones dating back in the early 1980s are also part of the collection. The first smartphones, which still had some “buttons” later joined the collection.
Almost all phones in memories are in Condition of work. Karagüdekoğlu said he bought or received cell phones for free of its customers, seeking to replace them with modern counterparts. It boasts that some cell phones are “limited edition” and some are “only one of how nice available in the world.” He shows cell phones he acquired in the United States, England, Italy, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, India, Indonesia and many more countries for his collection.
Karagüdekoğlu decided to apply for the Guinness Book of Records, both for show off its collection and promote son country, in September 2021. On January 11, his application was concluded and he was certified as owner of the world’s largest collection of of mobile Telephone (s. The certificates he received are proudly displayed among the rows of mobile phones.
“Every cell phone here has a story for their former owners. Some are ‘celebrities’,” he told Anadolu Agency (AA) on Thursday, referring to the use of his phones in some television commercials and shows.
He considers the collection as “a cultural heritage” and plans create a museum for their in the future. He believes it will be a good promotional efforts for Turkey as the collection is “unique.”
“So many things have changed since the phone was designed, but I think those older cell phones were better. They had a soul that (smartphones) is missing. There was a time when people would grab their cell phones and look forward to new text messages from loved ones. Of our time, with smart phone, people tendency to slip left and the right to ignore new messages,” he lamented. “New Phones also cause memory loss. You don’t have to think, smartphones do for you instead. This makes us lazy”, he added.
