When people look back at the pre-smartphone era with their rose-tinted specs, Nokia tends to be the first name that jumps out at them (despite the fact that its handsets no longer make our list of the best smartphones money can currently buy).

We’ve taken a look back at the Finnish mobile giant’s past accomplishments elsewhere, but it’s not the only company that helped pave the way for the phones we’re all so addicted to today. HTC gave it a good go before being absorbed into Google’s hardware division, and Huawei made massive strides from China into the wider world before a US trade embargo severely restricted its appeal to western audiences. But it was Motorola that made more than its fair share of contributions to the mobile phone world, at times pioneering and innovating its way well ahead of the competition.