Timeline: Evolution of mobile devices

Jan 1, 1854

Antonio Meucci's protoytpe phone

Antonio Meucci develops the forerunner to the telephone

Mar 7, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell receives the credit

Alexander Graham Bell gets a patent for the telephone and recives credit for the first telephone

Jan 28, 1878

first telephone exchange

the first telephone exchange is created in New Haven, Connecticut with 21 subscribers

May 13, 1890

first small telephone

the candlestick telephone was a smaller telephone, compared to those before it, and when it wasn't in use the end which had the listening piece hung on a hook

Aug 1, 1930

telephones start having boxes at the base

the bases of telephones start to have a box for the bell and induction coil

Mar 3, 1949

first commercialized mobile phone

in 1949 AT&T commercialized the first mobile phone from St Louis. Missouri

May 7, 1965

first major improvement to the mobile phone

in 1949 AT&T introduce the first major improvement to the MTS naming it Improved Mobile Service, using more radio signals, it could do more calls in a geographic area, eliminated having to call a operator, introduced customer calling, and reduced size and weight of the overall product

Jun 9, 1966

Radio Common Carrier

Radio Common Carrier was introduced to compete with AT&T's IMTS, they were marketed in areas where IMTS was used, they went out of business in the 1980s

Apr 3, 1973

first handheld mobile phone

Motorola produces the first handheld mobile phone, prior to 1973 mobile phones were restricted to cars and other vehicles, the first handheld phone had a talk time of 30 minutes and a charge time of 10 hours, it weighed 1.1 kg, was 23 cm long, 13 cm thick, and 4.45 cm wide

Oct 13, 1983

first widely distributed analogue mobile phone is introduced in the US

the Advanced Mobile Phone System or AMPS was the the first analogue phone to be distributed worldwide and in the US, it was not however the first analogue mobile phone, just the first distributed worldwide