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who created the first telephone
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist best known as the inventor of the telephone, worked at a school for the deaf while attempting to invent a machine that would transmit sound by electricity. Bell was granted the first official patent for his telephone in March 1876, though he would later face years of legal challenges to his claim that he was its sole inventor, resulting in one of history’s longest patent battles. Bell continued his scientific work for the re -
where the name "telephone came from
The word telephone was derived from the Greek words tele (meaning "far") and phone (meaning "voice"). It is one of the most common household appliances in the world today. -
first mobile cell phone
A driver in St. Louis, Mo., pulled out a handset from under his car's dashboard, placed a phone call and made history. It was the first mobile telephone call. -
the first handheld cellphone
Nokia's first 'handheld' mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900, launched in 1989 and weighed just 800g – a huge improvement over 1982's -
the first smart phone
In 1992 IBM showcased the IBM Simon at the 1992 COMDEX (Computer Dealers' Exhibition); in doing so they introduced the world to the first smartphone and it was just the kind of enormous brick one would expect from the first phone/computer mashup. -
the first iphone
the first iphone was actually dreamed of in 1983 but forgot about until 2007 -
the first galaxy
This article is about the first Samsung Galaxy smartphone introduced in 2009. For later devices, see Samsung Galaxy. The Samsung Galaxy, known as Samsung GT-I7500 in some countries, is a mobile phone manufactured by Samsung that used the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009.
