Many of us have a couple of outdated telephones taking on area in drawers, and a few might even have stored particular gadgets of their bins after being put apart when upgrading, however we now have nothing on the person who has claimed the Guinness Book of Records’ title of getting the world’s largest assortment of cellphones. The variety of telephones within the assortment? An enormous 3,615.
Wences Palau Fernandez lives in Barcelona, Spain, and he acquired his first cell phone — a trusty Nokia 3210 — round 1999 as a Christmas present. In 2008, he started accumulating Nokia telephones in earnest, apparently beginning out by buying the fashions that he’d be unable to afford earlier than. Initially housed in a number of show cupboards, the gathering quickly wanted its personal room when the quantity he owned reached 700 Nokia telephones some 10 years later. Today, it has grown even additional, and past every other assortment on the earth.
What’s unbelievable about Fernandez’s assortment is you possibly can really see it. He has created a dedicated website with pictures and movies of his Nokia telephones, and it’s an incredible look again over the historical past of the beloved model. Of specific nostalgic curiosity are the Asha fashions which embrace a few of Nokia’s first touchscreen telephones, the Communicator collection which was the folding smartphone of its day, and the numerous analogue Nokia telephones together with a really uncommon Nokia 5130 Star Wars mannequin launched for Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace.
While Nokia telephones appear to symbolize the majority of his assortment (and obsession), he additionally has telephones from a wide selection of different producers together with recognizable names resembling Apple, Samsung, LG, and Sony, together with much less widespread names resembling luxurious cellphone maker Vertu and Yezz, which as soon as had big plans for modular phones, plus outdated favorites from BlackBerry and Palm.
Fernandez took the Guinness World Record away from Andrei Bilbie Argentis in Romania, who had solely managed to seize the title in 2023 by proudly owning 3,456 cellphones. It appears Fernandez continues to be actively accumulating and rising his assortment — which he now sees as a museum — which means it might take one other, even bigger current assortment to turn out to be public to ensure that it to be overwhelmed within the very close to future.