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1909
It took another seven years to reach one million cell phone subscribers, hitting that figure in 1990. -
1973
The first mobile call was made by Martin Cooper in 1973. -
1973
On April 3, 1973, a Motorola employee, Martin Cooper, publicly demonstrated the world’s first handheld mobile phone by placing a call to Joel Engel, the head of research at AT&T’s Bell Labs using the phone. -
1977
“Cellular phones,” or more common today “cell phones,” get their name from the fact that areas served by towers are divided up into “cells.” The first use of the word “cellular” in this fashion was in 1977. -
1983
$4000 is the cost of first mobile phone in US, in 1983. -
1983
It was a full 10 years after public demonstration of the first handheld cell phone in 1973 before the first commercial handheld cell phone, the DynaTAC 8000x (“Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage”), hit the market on March 6, 1983. -
1984
The first documented use of the word “cell phone” was in 1984. -
1993
In 1993, world’s first Smartphone was debuted at Florida’s Wireless World Conference by BellSouth Cellular, it has a LCD touch screen display. This was designed by IBM and named as Simon ,priced at $899 and only 2000 Simmons are made at that time. -
1993
This myth was based on a highly publicized study done in 1993 that offered no actual direct evidence that this was happening, just several doctor’s suspicions that it was happening -
2007
An actual scientific study by the Mayo Clinic in 2005 busted this myth, as did another done in 2007 -
October 9, 2009
The word “droid” is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. Shortly before Verizon launched their “DROID” line of mobile devices, Lucasfilm Ltd. swept in and filed a trademark for the term “Droid”. -
2012
Apple sold more than 340,000 iPhones per day, which is around 4 per second -
2013
Over 9 trillion text messages were sent in 2013. That equates to about 1,200 text messages per person on the planet per year. -
August 15, 2014
Although Apple’s iPhones generally receive the most hype and publicity, world-wide approximately 88.3% of all mobile phones in use today are not iPhones. Further, Android is king by far in terms of OS used on smart phones with a whopping 84.7% market share according to Business Insider -
Today
billions of phones are currently in use and there are far more handheld mobile phone subscribers than there are wired phone subscribers.
