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Cell Phone Timeline

By Softball#8

  • Beginning of Cell phones

    Beginning of Cell phones
    The first mobile-radio-telephone service is established in St. Louis, Miss. The system is made of six channels. The project is approved by the FCC, but due to massive interference, the equipment barely works.

  • Cells for Mobile Phones

    Cells for Mobile Phones
    The introduction of cells for mobile phone base stations, invented in 1947 by Bell Labs engineers at AT&T, was further developed by Bell Labs during the 1960s.

  • First call on Handheld Mobile phone

    http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/02001/home.htmMotorola is widely considered to be the inventor of the first practical mobile phone for handheld use in a non-vehicle setting. Using a modem, if somewhat heavy portable handset, Motorola manager Martin Cooper made the first call on a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973

  • Nokia's First Mobile Phone

    Nokia's First Mobile Phone
    http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/Nokia Mobira Senator phone. Introduced in 1982, the Nokia Mobira Senator was designed for use in cars. After all, you wouldn't want to use this phone while walking: It weighed about 21 pounds.

  • Bell Labs invent "Call Handoff"

    Bell Labs invented such a "call handoff" feature, which allowed mobile-phone users to travel through several cells during the same conversation.

  • Introduction of 2G Technology

    The first digital cellular phone call was made in the United States in 1990, 2G phone systems were characterized by digital circuit switched transmission and the introduction of advanced and fast phone to network signaling.

  • First Digitial Cell Phone Call

    First Digitial Cell Phone Call
    The first digital cellular phone call was made in the United States in 1990.

  • Introduction of Text Messaging

    Introduction of Text Messaging
    Text messaging,began in the late 1980’s by a group of Europeans who were trying to improve systems for the Global System for Mobile communications, but was used by a civilian in 1993 by an engineering student totally by accident.

  • First PDA cell phone

    Handspring made waves with the Treo 180. More PDA than phone, the Treo 180 came in two versions: one with a QWERTY keyboard for typing and another (the Treo 180g) that used Graffiti text input instead. It had 16MB of memory.

  • Current I phone take over

    Current I phone take over
    http://www.iphonehistory.com/the iPhone idea was presented by Steve Jobs, and from then on the world in technology has been changed since.