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Alexander Graham Bell approved the first telephone in 1876 after 2 years of work.
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In 1889, Almon B. Strowger invented the first rotary telephone. http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm
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The company Motorola publicly launched the first handheld phone in 1984.
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The first text message was sent in 1992. The message said "Merry Christmas."
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Creators in Japan created the first camera phone. No one could believe how far they had come from Alexander Bell's first phone.
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The first Blackberry came out in 2002. It had no microphone or speaker but you could send emails and text messages.
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In 2007 a new company, Apple, cam out with the Iphone. With it you could easily send text messages, check email, make calls, search things on the internet, and you could use a new program called Youtube where you could easily share videos. You could even take pictures and videos.
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In 2008 Google, the main web browser at the time, introduced the Android. This phone was very similar to Apple's Iphone, but had an easier user interface. Over the years both Apple and Android have built upon their first phone's and have turned a phone into both a laptop, and a camera at the same time as it fits into your pocket.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/evolution-of-the-phone-from-the-first-call-to-the-next-frontier/
