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Maintaining a phone museum... it's harder than it looks!

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I/you/someone decides to set up a phone museum. Well, I guess it depends on how many phones/smartphones we're talking about. Most of us have a batch of previous phones, sitting in a drawer, but it becomes a collection when you start organising them, cataloguing them, and then... maintaining them. For it to be notable, there has to be a point to such a collection, of course. I've been collecting, in a way, old smartphones since 2000, this being my work until I retired recently. But my passion was always for the Symbian OS-based devices, from Nokia Communicators through to the Nokia 808, via the likes of the Sony Ericsson P series.  So, ignoring other classics in my possession (e.g. Windows Phones), I settled on properly organising and cataloguing a ' Symbian museum '. For my own enjoyment and for others. Including a load of relevant background content, clear photos of all the devices in use , and with my own (ahem) expert comment on what made each phone so good or so bad...