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The first phone
The first words through the telephone were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson.
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The candle stick dial phone
This was the first WE dial candlestick, used in conjunction with the Bell System's new dial service beginning in 1921 in Norfolk, VA (previously all Bell calls had been operator-assisted, whereas independents using AE equipment had been quicker to adopt dial technology).
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Model 202
Introduced in 1930, the "202" is identified by its graceful oval base. The E1 handset remained virtually unchanged with its distinctive "spit cup" to focus the speaker's voice into the transmitter.
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Model 500
First introduced in 1949, the Model 500 was to become the standard Bell System telephone for well over a generation and the most widely produced dial telephone ever.
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Model 220 Trimline
The last standard rotary-dial telephone to be manufactured by Western Electric was the Trimline, introduced in 1965.
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The first handheld phone
The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell[1][2] and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing c. 4.4 lbs (2 kg).[3] In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available handheld mobile phone.
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The first 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.
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Nokia 6110
it had: Three games: Memory, Snake, Logic
Calculator, clock and calendar
Currency converter
Works as a pager
Profile settings
[http://www.knowyourmobile.com/nokia/nokia-3310/19848/history-mobile-phones-1973-2008-handsets-made-it-all-happen] -
The first smart phone
A refined version was marketed to consumers in 1994 by BellSouth under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the first commercially available device that could be properly referred to as a "smartphone", although it was not called that in 1994.
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Current smart phone
Smartphones became widespread in the late 2000s. Most of those produced from 2012 onward have high-speed mobile broadband 4G LTE, motion sensors, and mobile payment features. In the third quarter of 2012, one billion smartphones were in use worldwide.[5] Global smartphone sales surpassed the sales figures for regular cell phones in early 2013.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone]
