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The Detroit Police Department began to use radios in cars to communicate.
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The government owened and used most of the readio frequencies. The FCC was created to decide who got to use what channels.
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Most government agencies and rich people had mobile radios to communicate to others.
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The first mobile phone service opened up in St. Louis, MO, but the service didn't work well and it didn't last
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Car phone service was attempted between Boston and New York, but failed.
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A second attempt at the car phones were attempted and worked this time. Besides the heavy weight and large size, the phones were successful.
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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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10 years after Dr. Cooper invented the first cell phone, it finally became available to the public. They were put out by Motorola.
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Motorola introduced a phone where the mouth piece fliped over the key pad. This was the first flip phone.
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Developers in Europe invented a way for written messages to be sent from the phone. it was called "texting".
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The frist smart phone was send and recieve messages and email, but needed a headset to be able to talk to people.
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Sanyo created a phone that could snap pictures and allow the user to download them to a computer so that the pictures could be printed.
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Apple released the iPhone with a touch screen and the ability to do almost anything a home computer could do, completely changing the phone industry.
