Innovation Timeline By Jules21 Mar 10, 1876 First telephone invented Period: Mar 10, 1876 to Nov 30, 2015 Innovation Timeline Jan 1, 1890 Candlestick phone invented used until the 1930's Jan 1, 1960 The rotary telephone is invented Jan 1, 1963 AT&T introduced Touch-Tone Jan 1, 1980 Portable, or cordless, phones were invented Jan 1, 1984 The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X is the first phone invented for commercial sale Jan 1, 1996 The Motorola StarTAC was the first successful flip phone Jan 1, 2003 the Sanyo SCP–5300 was one of the first phones to include a camera. Jan 1, 2004 The Motorola RAZR Jan 1, 2007 First Iphone and Android phone are intoduced