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The First phone
The first phone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
He made the first call to his assistant, Thomas Watson:
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Long distance call
Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long-distance telephone call, over a distance of about 6 miles, between Brant ford and Paris, Ontario, Canada. -
Commercial Telephone Company
The first commercial telephone company enters telephone business in Friedrichsberg close to Berlin using the Siemens pipe as ringer and telephone devices build by Siemens. -
International bell telephone
The International Bell Telephone Company (IBTC) of Brussels, Belgium was founded by Bell Telephone Company president Gardiner Greene Hubbard, initially to sell imported telephones and switchboards in Continental Europe. International Bell rapidly evolved into an important European telephone service provider and manufacturer, with major operations in several countries. -
Atlantic
First transmission of speech across the Atlantic Ocean by radiotelephone from Arlington, Virginia to Paris, France -
Videophone
World's first videophone call via an electro-mechanical AT&T unit, from Washington, D.C. to New York City, by then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. -
Type 500 telephone
The Western Electric Type 500 telephone becomes available in the United States after announcement in 1949. -
Dual-tone multi-frequency
Most telephones used a rotary dial, it was superseded by the modern DTMF push-button dial, first introduced to the public by AT&T in 1963. -
Electronic switching system
(ESS) is a telephone switch that uses digital electronics and computerized control to interconnect telephone circuits for the purpose of establishing telephone calls. -
Hand-held
Motorola employee Martin Cooper placed the first hand-held cell phone call to Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs, while talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype. -
Smartphone
The IBM Simon becomes the first smartphone on the market. The first phone with a touchscreen. -
Nokia
Nokia released the Nokia 9000 Communicator, a digital cellular PDA based on the Nokia 2110 with an integrated system based on the PEN/GEOS 3.0 operating system from Geoworks. -
Large capacitive
In 2007, the LG Prada was the first mobile phone released with a large capacitive touchscreen. Later that year, Apple Inc. introduced the iPhone, which used a multi-touch capacitive touch screen -
App store
The iPhone was "not a smartphone by conventional terms, being that a smartphone is a platform device that allows software to be installed, until the opening of Apple's App Store a year later, which became a common means for smartphone software distribution and installation. -
Google Android
The first phone to use Google's Android operating system called the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1) was released. -
Fingerprint
The first mobile phone with a fingerprint scanner was the Toshiba G500 in 2007 and the first smartphone with a fingerprint scanner was the Motorola Atrix 4G in 2011. -
Socially ethical
Fair-phone launched its first "socially ethical" smartphone at the London Design Festival to address concerns regarding the sourcing of materials in the manufacturing. -
Xperia Z5
Sony released the Xperia Z5 Premium, featuring a 4K resolution display, although only images and videos could actually be rendered at that resolution (all other software is upscaled from 1080p).
