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The first mobile phone service is established
The first service created just for mobile phones opened up in St. Louis, MO, but the service didn't work well and it didn't last. -
The first cell phone is tried
Dr. Martin Cooper invented a portable hand-held phone that didn't need to be powered through a car. He was the first person to make a mobile phone call. -
The cell phone goes public
It took ten years for the technology that Dr. Cooper invented to become available to the public. The first public cell phones were put out by Motorola. -
The flip phone is introduced
Motorola came out with a new design where the mouth piece flipped over the top of the keypad. It was the first flip phone. -
Text messaging is developed
Developers in Europe came up with a way to send written messages over the phone. It was called texting. -
The first smart phone is invented
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. -
A camera phone is made
A company called Sanyo made a phone that could snap pictures. Later the user could download the pictures to a computer to be printed.
