• 1994 April 28

Hardware Description

The Motorola mr1 was a specifically designed for the Orange network and became available to customers on 28th April 1994. In particular it supported Orange's incoming caller ID function and their line two option. It is a flip design mobile that uses the credit card sized SIM, has an LCD screen that can display two lines of text, a phone book that can store up to 180 names and numbers and the ability to receive but not send SMS text messages. It was superseded in 1996 by the mr20, a rebranded version of the Motorola fLaRe.