The Phone Graveyard

I’ve been tidying up various cupboards, drawers and boxes, and look what I found? I mean, I knew that I’d had a few phones over the years, but… And what do you do with old phones, anyway? I put the old one in a drawer and think “I’ll keep that one as a backup in case my new phone breaks down”, and then… it stays there forever. But since I found all these phones, I thought it might be slightly amusing to see if they still work, and if so, try to salvage any data they had (mainly pictures; messages are probably too hard to exfiltrate). So that means a lot of charging. Behold my wonderful charging station. Let’s see if I can order them approximately by the order I bought them… (Or were most of these bought by the job? That’s not impossible.) I think this was my second phone — before this I had a Nokia with a rubbery cover, but this had some sort of extra functionality that I had to have? I don’t remember what, though. This Nokia is so light and fits just right into the hand. The front…