Above: Photo of some of the phones owned by Ekrem Karagüdekoğlu who was the previous record holder with 2,779 cellphones.
A photo that accompanies the story from Guinness shows a room where Andrei collects his phones. Two of the walls facing each other are completely lined with mobile phones and zooming in on the photo we can make out several Motorola Razr V3 units in various colors. The wall on the left side side of the photo seems to hold a couple of recent Pixel handsets on the second shelf while we might have spotted several older iPhone models (circa iPhone 6) on the the ninth shelf of the same wall. Can you make out any particular phones from the photo?
Andrei Bilbie Argentis owns 3,456 phones which is the current Guinness World Record
We certainly don’t expect Andrei to have a wireless plan for each phone and any phone enthusiast would love to spend at least an hour running through his collection. We have sent a request to Guinness to see if it is possible to obtain a list of all of the phones that make up Bilbie Argentis’ record holdings. If we do get a response from the Book of World Records,, we will share it as an update to this story.
I also still have my Motorola DROID which, for the kiddies out there, was released in November 2009 and was the first phone that could go head-to-head with the iPhone. Not only was it the first handset to run Android 2.0, it was the device that kicked off Androidmania. One of the major selling points was free turn-by-directions on Google Maps.
Don’t be shy! We’d love to hear about your personal collection which you can tell us about by posting your list in the comments section below.
Thanks, Suzanne!