Swatch Mobile Phone
A special thank you to eyeseenicee for uploading these scans of the Swatch mobile phone.
Long before Nokia started allowing us to customize our phones, Swatch offered cell phones in a wide variety of colors.
Based on these features, it must have been available in the early Nineties.
I never heard about these phones when they were available. Back then, I wanted the Motorola StarTac. I don’t think these would have attracted me. They look awesome to me now.
I still have my green swatch mobile which I got in march 1995 from ‘Peoples Phone’ who had it in blue or green. It was like carrying a brick in my bag as the handset measures 170x63x36mm and weighs 370g, with an aerial you had to pull out whenever you got a call! It was a cellular phone and I can remember hanging out my bedroom window to get a signal. I am keeping mine because of the swatch name. I am hoping it might be worth something one day.
Comment by Pam Yorath — April 14, 2010 @ 5:33 am
I too still have my Swatch phone, I have the red and blue see through model, heavy as hell to carry around with you but cool as at the time. maybe they will be worth something on day Pat 🙂
Comment by Simon Craggs — June 30, 2010 @ 4:49 pm