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Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first words into a telephone on March 10, 1876
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the candlestick phone was separated into two pieces
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The rotary phone became popular. To dial, you would rotate the dial to the number you wanted, and then releas
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AT&T introduced Touch-Tone, which allowed phones to use a keypad to dial numbers and make phone calls.
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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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Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially available mobile phone.
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One of many classic Nokia candybar-style phones, the Nokia 5110 was rugged and had a long battery life.
