Timeline of Phones

By k-mart
  • The First Cell Phone is Tried

    Dr Martin Cooper invents a portable hand-held phone that didn't needed to be powered by a car. He was the first person to make a cellphone call.
  • The Cell Phone is now Public

    It took ten years for Dr Martin Cooper to make the cell phone public.The first cell phones wer by the company Motorola.
  • The First Flip Phone

    Motorola came out with a new design where the mouthpiece went over the top of the keypad.
  • Introducing Text Messaging

    Introducing Text Messaging
    In Europe they found a way to send written messages on a phone. They called it texting.
  • The First Camea Phone is Made

    A phone company called Sanyo made a phone that could take pictures. After that, the could download and print pictures off the phone.
  • The First smartphone

    The smartphone now had texting and emails but did not have a microphone or speaker. It needed a headset to work.
  • Cell phones Being Recycled

    In California, they passed a law that said you had to recycle your old phone. It was harmful to it in the trash so they passed the lawww . The landfill were full of cell phones.
  • The iPhone

    Apple's first iPhone changed the phone industry. When the iPhone came out it allowed users to do more and have a touchscreen.