Cell Phone

By gabrielsaroli
  • Motorola Dyna-Tac created

    Motorola Dyna-Tac created

    First cell phone ever created, by Martin Cooper. Retail price: US$3995

  • Lightest cell phone released

    SRA—Svenska Radioaktiebolaget—releases a mobile phone that weighs only 3kg.

  • First commercial mobile phone network

    The Bell Labs launched the first commercial mobile phone network in Chicago using the American Mobile Phone System, an analogue mobile phone system.
  • First Nordic Mobile Telephony

    First Nordic Mobile Telephony

    The first Nordic Mobile Telephony phone call is made in Tampere, Finland.

  • First entirely automatic cell phone system

    First entirely automatic cell phone system Nordic Mobile Telephony initiate in Sweden and Norway.
  • Motorola Dyna-Tac launched

    Motorola Dyna-Tac launched

    Although it was created ten years earlier, the Motorola Dyna-Tac was only launched in 1983. It could handle only 60 minutes of talk time under the best conditions.
  • AT&T completes the divestiture of its local operating companies.

    AT&T completes the divestiture of its local operating companies.

    This forms a new AT&T (long distance service and equipment sales) and the Baby Bells.
  • FAX machines become popular.

    FAX machines become popular.

    A printed sheet of paper can be sent across telephone lines and received whole on the other end.
  • ADSL

    ADSL

    ADSL introduced
  • First transatlantic fiber optic cable

    First transatlantic fiber optic cable

    TAT-8, carrying 40,000 circuits.
  • Pocket cellular telephone.

    Pocket cellular telephone.

    is introduced by Motorola.
  • The Cellular Technology Industry Association

    The Cellular Technology Industry Association

    CTIA is created and helps to make the industry into an empire.
  • GSM mobile phone network

    GSM mobile phone network

    The GSM mobile phone network is started in Finland, with the first phone call in Tampere.
  • Telecom Relay Service

    Telecom Relay Service

    Telecom Relay Service available for the disabled
  • Caller ID

    Caller ID

    Caller ID implemented nationally in USA
  • Nokia 1610

    Nokia 1610

  • Qualcomm QCP2700

    Qualcomm QCP2700

  • Nokia 5110

    Nokia 5110

  • Ericsson A1228d

    Ericsson A1228d

  • Palm Treo 600

    Palm Treo 600

  • Motorola V60c

    Motorola V60c

  • Motorola V770

    Motorola V770

  • Sony Ericsson T616

    Sony Ericsson T616

  • Motorola RAZRv3

    Motorola RAZRv3

  • Sony Ericsson W810i

    Sony Ericsson W810i

  • AT&T 8525

    AT&T 8525

  • AT&T 8925

    AT&T 8925

  • BlackBerry 8830

    BlackBerry 8830

    First BlackBerry released, phone that is used until today, which changes its model a lot.
  • Iphone 3G / 3Gs

    Iphone 3G / 3Gs

    First Apple Phone.. Touch Screen, mini computer.
  • Iphone 4

    Iphone 4

    Same as the Iphone 3g but there are 2 cameras now, front and back, and it films too.
  • Sony Ericsson x10 (Android)

    Sony Ericsson x10 (Android)

    Touch Screen, new system used, android.