Counterclockwise: the history of Siemens phones and their many innovations

I still remember the first time I saw a Siemens ME45 - a black phone with amber lighting and it was water, shock and dust resistant. It was like a stealthy bat-phone. The ME45 internals are identical to the Siemens S45, the company's first GPRS-capable phone. Both are from 2001. A year later the Siemens S45i came out, it added email support. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Siemens ME45 • Siemens S45 • Siemens S45i Siemens' history with telephony dates back to the 19th century when the company got into building telephone exchanges (it was building telegraphs before...