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Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone on April 3rd, 1973
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In the 1990's the 2nd generation mobile phones emerged. The second generation introduced text messaging. 2G also introduced the ability to access media on mobile phones.
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Motorola came out with a new design where the mouth piece flipped over the top of the keypad. It was the first flip phone.
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Developers in Europe came up with a way to send written messages over the phone. It was called texting.
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The smart phone could send and receive emails and messages, but it didn't have a speaker or microphone. This meant it needed a headset to work.
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A company called Sanyo made a phone that could snap pictures. Later the user could download the pictures to a computer to be printed.
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Apple released its first iphone and it changed the cellular industry. It featured a touch screen and allowed users to do almost anything they could do from a home computer, which basically changed the way people lived.