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While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.
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The Bell Telephone Company was founded. 3,000 private phones active by year's end.
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First telephone able to dial. Rotate to type in a number.
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In 1965 a musician named Teri Pall made a working version of a cordless phone, but the method it used to communicate could span over a range of 2 miles and interfered with aircraft communications, making the device unmarketable.
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Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone.
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The first flip phone was made by Motorola and was known as the clamshell design. It was targeted at the wealthy costumers and priced at $3,995.
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IBM created the first smartphone. People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992.
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Things have become much more advanced. There is more memory, the devices are far faster and more powerful, you can use multiple applications at the same time, cameras are HD, music and video streaming are easy, etc. Around 2.5 billion of us now own a smartphone, and this figure is predicted to rise to almost three billion by 2020.The advances of smartphones continue to grow constantly. It's hard to predict what will come next.
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This device was a start to the new "era". It was the beginning of new ideas and concepts such as social media and free for all software and application, and fast communication.
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