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he first telephone was invented 1870 by Alexander Graham Bell. There was many others that looked into the invention of the telephone. The telephone switchboard was invented in 1876, which allowed for the formation of telephone exchanges, and eventually networks.
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The first patent for a rotary dial is due to Almon Brown Strowger ,November 29, 1892, as U.S. Patent 486,909, but the commonly known form with holes in the finger wheel was not introduced until ca. 1904.
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is a telephone that uses buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number to place a call to another telephone subscriber.
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Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially available mobile phone.
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Portable, or cordless, phones were the phone equivalent of the TV remote. You were no longer physically attached to your phone’s base station.
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The Motorola StarTAC was the first successful flip phone, and in many ways, the first successful consumer cell phone.
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One of many classic Nokia candybar-style phones, the Nokia 5110 was rugged and had a long battery life.
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The Motorola RAZR represented the culmination of the flip phone. Unable or unwilling to experiment with new designs, mobile phone companies continued their push for smaller and smaller phones.
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Canadian-based Research in Motion, now BlackBerry, was by far the leading smartphone manufacturer in the 2000s.
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When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Apple brought the smartphone to the masses. With its intuitive touchscreen, intelligent sensors, and sleek design, the iPhone has been an incredible success.
