Evolution of The Phone

By LoganPickral

  • The first phone

    The first phone
    1876 when inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first call, famously telling his assistant: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."

  • First Rotary Phone

    First Rotary Phone
    This was the phone that succeeded the candlestick phone and had the receiver and the mouthpiece all in a single piece. To call someone you would spin a dial to get the number you wanted and you would call that
    Source: person.http://bgr.com/2013/12/13/telephone-timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-phone/

  • First Candlestick telephone

    First Candlestick telephone
    The candlestick telephone was popular from the 1890's to the 1930's and was separated into two pieces, the actual candlestick part which you talked into, and the receiver which was put in the ear to hear what the other person was saying. This died when manufacturers put both of these pieces together.
    Source: http://bgr.com/2013/12/13/telephone-timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-phone/

  • First Push-Button Telephone

    First Push-Button Telephone
    AT&T first introduced this phone in 1963 with a keypad which you would push keys on the keypad which would send frequencies that would call the person that you wanted to call. After this was created people could make free long-distance calls.
    Source: http://bgr.com/2013/12/13/telephone-timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-phone/

  • First Portable Phones

    First Portable Phones
    The telephone equivalent of the TV remote, the portable phone was a phone that you could carry anywhere within the house and you no longer were tied to a certain position in a single area of the house.
    Source: http://bgr.com/2013/12/13/telephone-timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-phone/

  • The Flip Phone

    The Flip Phone
    The first Motorola model to support the clamshell design was the MicroTAC, created in 1989, although General Telephone & Electronics (GTE) held the trademark from the 1970s for its Flip-Phone (one of the first small hand-held electronic phones), until 1993.

  • Smart Phones

    Smart Phones
    People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone.

  • Phone's today

    Phone's today
    Now we have multiple smart phones to choice from and phones are only getting better every year. now almost every phone is a smartphone. we are practically carrying little computers in our pockets.