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In 1849 Antonio Meucci made the first basic telephone however the phone was devised twice before patented in 1876
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March 10th,1876 Alexander Bell won the patent for the Telephone the first words said in the phone were to his assistant "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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Fast forward about 90 years, In 1963, AT&T introduced Touch-Tone, which allowed phones to use a keypad to dial numbers and make phone calls. Each key would transmit a certain frequency.
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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. Beginning in the 1980s, portable phones were like a small-scale cell phone.
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Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially available mobile phone. At 1.75 pounds, this phone had 30 minutes of talk time and cost of $3,995.
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The Motorola StarTAC was the first successful flip phone, and in many ways, the first successful consumer cell phone. Introduced in 1996, Motorola eventually sold 60 million StarTACs.
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The IPhone 6 is the most recent succesfull Smartphone
