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VoIP Internet Telephony, mobile Internet, wireless Internet technology (wi-fi), digital technology, 3G and 4G mobile networks, smartphones, mobile apps, android and iOS app development software, cloud computing services, “Internet of things” and a great number of advanced and innovative technologies were developed through all these years.
As evolution never stops, we are about to see great things happening in the future! -
The first SMS message was sent from pc to mobile device through Vodafone’s GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) in England.
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2G technology (second-generation wireless telephone technology) was introduced for the very first time, in Finland by Radiolinja, a Finnish GSM (Global System of Mobile Communications) operator, founded on September 19, 1988.
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Motorola DynaTAC 8000x was introduced in the US and went on sale in March. The phone had half an hour talk time, eight hours of standby and had been sold for $3.995.
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In 1979, the Hamburger Phone, the first phone that looked like a burger was launched!
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In 1973, the first mobile (cellular) phone was introduced by Martin Cooper, while working for Motorola.
Martin Cooper was recognized as “father of mobile phone” and he was the first individual who made a handheld mobile phone call in public. -
The first email message was sent in 1971. However, the term “Internet” was used for the very first time 2 years later, but not with today’s concept and meaning.
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the first touch-tone phones were launched and test-marketed in Ohio. The particularity of these telephones was attributed to the fact that they had 10 buttons, instead of 12 buttons, as we know them today
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AT&T Inc, the American multinational telephone organization defined the dimensions of the ideal headset, so the microphone would be next to the caller’s mouth.
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Almon Brown Strowger was invented the first dial phone, also he was patented the automatic telephone exchange (dial service). The main goal of this invention was to eliminate human switchboard operators required to make a phone call.
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29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone and in 1903 he received a patent for his revolutionary new invention.
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The first transatlantic phone call became a reality, since it was made from London to New York.
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Area codes, which suggest the numbers that need to be dialed in order to call a specific location, were firstly initiated in 1946.
