MOBILE PHONE MONUMENTS

Have you ever imagined a monument for a Cell Phone??.Sounds funny take a look at the cell phone monuments around the world.


LG Electronics set up a huge handset shaped structure at the Millennium Plaza in COEX, one of the favorite destinations of the youth in Seoul.
It features LG DMB mobile TV and LG plays commercials as well as provides the time and weather information.

Twenty-five years nearly to the day after the last hand-crank phone call was made in Bryant Pond of Bethel, Maine - a 14-foot tall sculpture made by Gil Whitman of the old-style phone was dedicated on the common. The Bethel Citizen

   

HANDCRANK HISTORY CELEBRATED—Gil Whitman’s 14-foot tall metal sculpture of a handcrank telephone in Bryant Pond. The work commemorates the Bryant Pond Telephone Co., the last handcrank system in the U.S.




Samsung Electronics displayed a sculpture made of 200 mobile phones which were about to be discarded in an event at a Ukrainian shopping mall 

 

A worker makes final touches on a huge fake Siemens cell phone in Hanover.

 

A sculpture of Samsung Electronics' ‘Blue-Black Phone,' the SGH-D500, is set up on the approach to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris.

 

Samsung unveiled a 40-million-baht ($973'000) statue to honour the mobile telephone in Thailand, a six-metre, plastic and steel representation of an open human hand holding a phone handset.

"Samsung, which has built similar landmarks in at least nine other countries, put the statue outside the Central World Plaza in Bangkok.

The phone on the hand of the 3-by-3-by-6-metre statue is a replica of Samsung's latest flagship handset, the D500. The giant phone features an enlarged LED bulletin board that displays messages and announcements sent by any member of the public.

The 2,800-kg statue will serve as an information board, providing major currency exchange rates and local time checks after the novelty of personal SMS texting wears off.