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Robert Hooke creates an acoustic string telephone that conveys sounds over a taut extended wire by mechanical vibrations
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Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone.
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Edison tests his first carbon microphone.
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World's first wireless telephone call on Bell and Tainter's photophone (distant precursor to fiber-optic communications) from the Franklin School in Washington, D.C. to the window of Bell's laboratory, 213 meters away.[21][22]
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The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.[23]
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On this date, the Bell Telephone Company created, well, the Bell Telephone Company! They started commercially producing phones and service.
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The first rotary dial telephones in the Bell System installed in Norfolk, Virginia. Telephones that lacked dials and touch-tone pads were no longer made by the Bell System after 1978.
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The rotary style dial pad had been replaced with a cooler dial pad. It only had 10 keys, and no star or asterix key.
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The US public allowed a cellular mobile phone service to be run.
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The first advanced mobile phone system was created by BNell Laboratories.
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The first extremely modern mobile phone ! There are many many out there. Some features included touch screens, cameras, etc.
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The IBM Simon becomes the first smartphone on the market.
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This truly was the start of the technology century.
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The iPhone (colloquially known as the iPhone 2G and iPhone 1 after 2008 to differentiate it from later models) is the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, and was later released in the United States on June 29, 2007. It featured quad-band GSM cellular connectivity with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer.
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The Samsung GT-I7500 Galaxy is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that uses the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile, and the first in what would become the long Galaxy series. It is succeeded by the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica.