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In 1877 the first regular telephone line was completed, from Boston to Somerville, Massachusetts. By 1880 there was almost 50,000 telephones in the US.
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The first telephone calls were made on a fledgling service. In 1889, Almon B. Strowger invented a system to “switch” calls between different pairs of subscribers using relays and sliders. The system was so simple and effective that it remained in use until digital switches began to replace analog ones. The first phone book was published in 1878, and consisted of one page with just 50 names and no numbers. The first Yellow pages later appeared in 1886 with its first directory.
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One of the first methods of direct dialing was known as pulse dialing. This would be when someone would lift up the telephone receiver and tap the receiver or a button on the device in certain patterns, representing parts of a phone number to place a direct call. In 1896, an associate of Mr.Stowger invented the rotary dial.
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In the 1960s the first touch tone phones became available on the market.1963, the first commercially-viable tone dialing phones went on the market, introduced by AT&T as Touch-Tone dialing,
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The first mobile phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, introduced in 1973. Just the handset weighed 2.5 pounds, featured a staggering 30 minutes of talk time, six hours of battery standby, and had enough memory to store up to 30 contacts and their phone numbers.
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The first cellphone with picture display was the Nokia 1011 introduced November 10, 1992. This soon led to IBM Simon, The Blackberry, Apple iPhone, and the HTC Dream which all have been notable and trailblazers in the development of the Smartphone.
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This was Samsung's first Android phone