Evolution of the cell phone By jaylinbarringer@crowder.edu 1973 First Portable Cell Phone was Created https://versus.com/en/news/cell-phone-history 1973 First portable cell phone was created https://versus.com/en/news/cell-phone-history 1985 The first Siemens phone was created 1985 First Siemens phone was created https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoDSvWQVhjw 1987 First Nokia phone was created https://www.practicallynetworked.com/history-of-the-cell-phone/ 1989 Flip Phone Era Dec 3, 1992 First text message was sent https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568393428/the-first-text-messages-celebrates-25-years 1994 Smartphones invented (IBM Simon) https://time.com/3137005/first-smartphone-ibm-simon/ 1996 Vibrating phones invented 1996 First Phone with a QWERTY keyboard https://versus.com/en/news/cell-phone-history 1997 First phone with no external antenna invented https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/haganuk-global-handy 1998 Phones with color on the screens invented 1999 First phone with GPS invented https://www.pcworld.com/article/461346/a-brief-history-of-gps.html 2000 First phone with camera invented https://www.androidauthority.com/phone-camera-history-1128076/ 2000 First phone with radio and calendar 2001 First cell phone with Bluetooth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_T39 2002 First phone with photo display 2007 iPhone 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation) 2009 First phone with Google Maps 2010 First 4G smartphone https://www.cengn.ca/information-centre/innovation/timeline-from-1g-to-5g-a-brief-history-on-cell-phones/ 2015 Phones created with curved display 2017 Phone created with face ID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_ID 2018 First Foldable smartphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldable_smartphone