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Detroit Police tried mobile radios in their cars to communicate with the police cars around him.
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Mobile Radio's became very popular. Only government and very rich people could get them.
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vfirst mobile phone service is established , and the first car phone service is attempted .. They both failed.
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The second attempt at car phone service was successful. The equipment was very heavy and large but it was an improvement from what they had made in the past.
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AT&T proposed splitting phone service into different areas across the cities. These areas were called cells.
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Dr. Martin Cooper invented a portable hand-held phone that didnt need to be powered by a car. he was the first to make a phone call.
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It took ten years for the technology that Dr. Cooper invented to become available to the public. Motorola was the first company to release a cell phone.
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Motorola came out with a new design where the mouth piece flipped over the top of the keypad. 'Twas the first flip phone.
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Developers in Europe came up with a way to send written messages over the phone. It was called texting.
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The smart phone could send and receive emails and messages. It needed a headset and a mic to be able to work.
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Sanyo made a phone that could snap pictures. Then people could download them to their computers.
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Apple released its first iphone and it changed the cellular industry. It featured a touch screen and allowed users to do almost anything they could do from a home computer, which basically changed the way people lived.
