-
The first car-to-car radios are used by the Detroit Police Department, however, it did not work very well
-
The Federal Communications Committee is established to decide who gets to use which channels of radio frequency
-
The first mobile phone service is created in St. Louis, MO. It did not work very well and did not last very long
-
The term "cell" comes into play when AT&T proposed splitting phone service into different areas across the cities called "cells"
-
Dr. Martin Cooper invented a portable hand-held phone and made the first mobile phone call
-
The cell phone goes public by Motorola
-
The flip phone is introduced
-
Text messaging is created by developers in Europe
-
Philips introduces "The Synergy" which provided wireless access to email, internet, and faxes. An early version of what will later be known as the smartphone
-
BellSouth announces that it is leaving the pay phone business due to the competition from cell phones
-
Nokia releases a cell phone that includes a QWERTY keyboard
-
The first smart phone is invented: it could send and receive emails and messages but did not have a speaker or microphone so it required a headset as well
-
The first camera phone is made by Sanyo
-
Camera phones make people concerned, paranoid, and uncomfortable
-
The Motorola Razr becomes one of the most popular phones of the time. Originally at a price around $600, the Razr sold over 50 million phones by the summer of 2006.
-
The first ever LG texting competition is held in the United States
-
Apple released the first iPhone, with a 3.5 inch display
-
The Galaxy SIII becomes the best-selling smartphone in the world, in front of the iPhone 4s. However, the release of the iPhone 5 means Samsung was not able to stay in the top spot for long
-
Apple continues to release at least one new iPhone each year. Leading to 2014 with the iPhone 6 and 6+
