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First Phone
Created by Alexander Graham Bell, this launched the first bi-directional electronic transmission of the spoken word. -
Candlestick Phone
A phone that was separated into two pieces, where the mouth piece was formed in a way that looked like a candlestick. -
Rotary Phone
To dial on this phone you would have to rotate the dial with your finger to dial the specific number that you wanted and then release your finger. -
Push Button Phone
Introduced by AT&T, this phone displayed a keypad on the phone for where you could push the numbers that you wanted to dial instead of having to rotate your fingers to dial. -
Answering Machine
Allowed callers to leave a recorded message for the first time if the person did not answer them. The first answering machine originally used cassette tapes to record the messages. -
Portable Phone
This phoe allowed you to talk anywhere in your house and not have to stay in a certain area because your phone wouldn't allow you to move. -
Motorola DynaTAC
This was the first commercially availale mobile phone. This phone only had 30 minutes of talk and weighed around 1.75 pounds. -
Caller ID
This showed up on your phone indicating who it was rather than having the phone number show up and you trying to remember whose number it was. -
Motorola StarTAC
This was the first successful flip phone that it only weighed 3.1 ounces -
Nokia 5110
This phone had a long lasting battery life and allowed you to play the game snake on the screen. -
Sanyo SCP-5300
This was as one of the first phones released that had a camera. -
iPhone
This was created to be used to listen to music, take pictures, text, call, and play games. It continues to become more advanced as the iPhone 7 was just released.
