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Bell telephone-Wooden Hand Crank Phone
Alex Graham Bell creates the first phone. The first words spoken on the telephone were Bell to Watson, “Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you” Bell was the first to file a patent for the telephone. Used knowledge of electricity used with the telegraph. -
Bell Telephone Company Was Formed
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Candlestick telephone
The first lighter desktop models, called candlestick telephones, were produced by several different people and companies. The first person to invent the candlestick phone is often disputed and is attributed to either Almon Stowger or the Stromberg-Carlson company. The candlestick phone featured a mouthpiece at the top of the stand (the “candlestick” part) and a receiver that was held to the ear during a call. -
Stowger
First automatic telephone exchange in order to eliminate the need for an intermediary operator -
Rotary Telephone
The Frankfurt is created. First rotary telephone -
DeskTop Cradle Telephone (Model 102/202)
Western Electric’s model 102 telephone was the first commercial telephone set where the receiver and transmitter were combined into one handset. -
Watson Electric Model
It was the first complete phone produced by Western Electric as a separate subscriber set. The phone was often featured in movies and television shows, such as I Love Lucy – this is why the 302 is sometimes called the “Lucy phone” by collectors. -
Watson Electric Model 500
The most iconic American phone as nearly every home in the country had one at some time.
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The Princess Telephone
It was the first phone to be specifically advertised to women, which is why the phone was slim and feminine-looking. -
Mobile Phone For Cars
In Sweden, the first automatic mobile phone system for cars was launched. -
Trimline telephone
compact and stylish. The phone’s dial was on the underside of the handset instead of the phone’s base, like earlier models. This made the phone smaller and easier to use. -
First Mobile Phone-Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
The first-ever mobile phone call was made by Dr. Martin Cooper, a Motorola employee, in New York using a prototype Dyna TAC phone. The phone weighed over a kilogram and took 10 hours to charge! It cost $4000. -
1G network
Japan released the first-ever commercially available automated cellular network, it was however only available in cars. We now call this “1G”. -
First flip cell phone invented
Motorola microTAC9800X -
First Smart Phone Invented
The first smartphone, created by IBM. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC). -
first touch screen phone out for purchase
The IBM Simon is created and is considered to be the first smartphone and touch screen. The first sign of what we call “apps” -
Browsing the web
WAP launches the Nokia 7110 making it the first phone capable of browsing the web -
First phone with camera
The Sharp J-SHO4 becomes the first cell phone with a camera built-in. -
Full-colour displays
Full-colour displays start to hit the market first with the Mitsubishi Trium Eclipse. -
First Blackberry
The Blackberry 5810 is created, revolutionizing the telephone industry as well as introducing the world to the BlackBerry Brand. -
3G
The implementation of 3G took download speeds up -
The iPhone
The first iPhone is created by Steve Jobs and Apple. The iPhone allowed for your phone to be an iPod, a telephone, and was able to have games known as "apps." -
First Android
The T-Mobile G1 is created, becoming the first phone to use Google's Android operating system. It has a limited touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard -
Samsung
Samsung cements their place as the biggest global smartphone vendor thanks to the Galaxy S II -
iPhone 5
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Fingerprint scaning
Fingerprint scanning went mainstream when it launched on the iPhone 5S via the touch button. -
Face recognition
Face recognition came out on the IphoneX -
5G
UK&US begin to deploy 5G network. 10 times faster than 4G
