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When there was no phones!
Before cellphones arrived, your fellow travellers on public transport were more likely to be seen reading books, newspapers and magazines to pass their journey time, or just observing the scenery through the window (unless it was dark or you were on an underground train). Your neighbours might even exchange pleasantries with you and strike up conversation. -
The First Cell Phone
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first transcontinental telephone call to Thomas Watson-from New York to San Francisco-after trials using De Forest’s triodes successfully boost the long-distance signal. What is the world’s longest telephone line consists of 2,500 tons of copper wire, 130,000 poles, three vacuum-tube repeaters, and countless numbers of loading coils.
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Phones for the kids to get ahold of there parents at school!
They are not smart phones, but they do the job. They are able to call there parents. -
First touch screen phone
New Video Will Blow Your Mind.
The IBM Simon was the first phone with a touchscreen in 1992 — it's also referred as the first “smartphone,” though the term was not yet coined. A few competitors came out in the early '90s, but most mobile devices with touchscreens were more like PDAs.
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Flip phones
Motorola StarTAC. The Motorola StarTAC is a clamshell mobile phone manufactured by Motorola. It was released on January 3, 1996, being the first ever clamshell/flip mobile phone. The StarTAC is the successor of the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell design that had been launched in 1989.
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What we use phones for.
56% of cell phone users access the Internet on a mobile phone -
Teens on there phones 24/7
Teens are on there phone 24/7 playing games and on social media. -
IPhones in the future
IPones in the future will get up to the Iphone 8.
