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The Original Phone:
The very first telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
The following sentence was the very first message sent through the device: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." -
The Candlestick Telephone:
The candlestick phone was the next model of telephone to be popular during this timespan. the candlestick part was used as the mouth piece while a separate piece was used as a reciever held to the ear during the phone call. This style died out around 1930's as phone manufacturers started to combine the two pieces into a single unit. -
The Rotary Dial Telephone:
The production of rotary dial telephones saw the end of candlestick telephones. to dial a number, to operate the rotary dial, the user would have to put his finger into the number holes and turn it clockwise. As the push-button models gained popularity in the 1960's and 1970's, the rotary dial slowly bagan to die out. -
Answering Machines:
the answering machine, invented in the 1898, transformed the phone behaviour in a huge way. it allowed callers to leave a message if no one recieved the call. until the 1960's they were used as cassette tapes to record messages. from 1960 and onwards, the answering machines became extremely popular. in the past 15 years, they've become digital, meaning they've replaced the cassettes with small RAMs. in the last decade, they've beome a part of the phone service provider, -
Push-button Dial Telephone
the Touch-Tone, Introduced by AT&T, was the new Push-button technology used in the telephones from 1963. Each key transmitted a certain frequency, which would signal the operators which number the user wanted to call. the ease of use of the push-button telephones meant the rotary dials were soon becoming a thing of the past. -
Portable/ Chordless Telephones:
portable, or chordless, were the phone equivelant of the TV remote. there was no more need to be standing attatched to the phone's base station. they were pretty much the equivelant of cell phones at that time. now that the cell phones can be used to talk anywhere in the world, the portable phones seem quaint. -
Motorola DynaTAC
first released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first available mobile phone. In 1973, Martin cooper made the first call ever with a previous version of this beast of a set. It weighed 1.75 pounds, had a talk time of 30 minutes and and cost a not so modest $3,995. -
Smartphones (the first production):
It is said that the concept of smartphones had been envisioned back in mid-1970's but did not begin it's production until almost 20 years later. The very first production of smartphone was knows as 'Simon Personal Communicator' by IBM. it had a monochrome touchscreen, a stylus, and a charging base station. it needed to be charged after 30 minutes of data usage. -
Flip Phones:
Flip phones were first successfully produced in 1996. The very first model to succeed was the Motorola StarTAC, which sold around 60 million sets. in 2003, a company named Sanyo contributed to the flip phones' evolution by including a video camera into their set. unfortunately the quality was really disappointing by today's standards. it could only store 10-15 images and the set included a 3ft. ranged flash. this was one of the phones that made cameras essential to our phones today. -
Smartphones (Next came nokia):
in 1996, Nokia decided to step into the still-developing smartphone space. they released the Nokia 9000 to the world. it was 1.5 inch thick, weighed 397g and had features such as an outward facing dial pad, nacigation keys and monochromatic display. the 9000 looked like the usual run-of-the-mill cell phone from 1996. it was however a folded phone with a QWERTY keyboard, physical navigation buttons which are situated a much larger, monochrome display. it could do web browsing, email and more. -
Nokia 5110:
one of many classic nokia candybar-styled phones. The nokia 5110 had a rugged build and a good, long battery life. it was also customisable, allowing owners to change the faceplates as they desired. -
Flip Phones (Cont.)
In 2004, Motorola perfected the flip phone design with their new creation: the RAZR. it was only 0.54 inches thin, and was as much a fashion device as a cell phone. unfortunately, as the touchscreen phones made their appearances, the popularity of the RAZR rapidly declined. -
Smartphones (Fast Forward to Present)
after many more smatphone attemps by Sony, Blackberry, HTC and many more, Apple and Android stepped into the game. apple brought out the very first iPhone with their own iOS in 2007, which took the world by storm. a completey exclusive operating system by apple for their own products. back then that was the new future for telephone technology. Then in 2008, the open-source OS, Android, made their first release with HTC Dream. this marked the long running competition between the two phone giants. -
Smartphones (the ongoing competition):
now in 2015, Apple and Android are still at it with their new productions. Apple have been bringing out their new generations of iPhones one after another with better layouts, features and designs, while android has been working with many different companies, their biggest succes has been with Samsung, these companies have been using many features such as the camera which is many megapixels clear, adaptive flash, fingerprint sensors and many more.
