The History of Phones

By jp1215
  • Who invented the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell and this is also when the first telephone was made.
  • The Blake Transmitter

    This was the first successful telephone to work.The phone was invented by Francis Blake and it used a carbon and platinum based resistance element.
  • Desk Telephones(Eiffle Tower)

    This product was a response to Ericsson's Skeletal Telephone. It was very popular in Europe and it was the first desktop telephone with a handset.
  • 11 digit Potbelly Dial Candlestick

    This is the first dial telephone.
    Almon Strowger also developed the first automated telephone switch out of electromagnets and hat pins.
  • Round Base Rotary Dial Monophone

    This model, dubbed the "Shirley Temple" phone by collectors, is the first handset telephone used by the independent telephone companies
  • Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

    The Model T of mobiles. The device was birthed from a fierce race between Motorola and Bell labs to bring the first portable to market.
  • Motorola StarTAC

    While the DynaTAC may have been the first portable phone, MOTO's StarTAC, was the first pocketable phone.
  • Toshiba TCP-6000

    Nokia's 8810 was not the first GSM phone with an internal antenna. That distinction belongs to the TCP-6000, released as the Hagenuk GlobalHandy. Toshiba and Hagenuk teamed up to develop the phone, but it never came out in the United States where the GSM standard had yet to be adopted.
  • Nokia 8810

    Developers and carriers had been skeptical due to reception issues, this dot-com boom-era silver slider proved that a phone with a built-in internal antenna could be a hit with consumers. By bringing the antenna inside, it paved the way for a generation of phones that were not only more portable, but also more durable.
  • Danger Hiptop

    This phone was more commonly known as the T-Mobile Sidekick,it was a geek's phone of choice, thanks to always-online connectivity, a massive 240 x 160 LCD screen and a flip-open QWERTY keyboard.
  • Motorola Razr

    The Razr was the first must-have mobile. Its slender housing, clean lines, subtle keypad and multiple color schemes created a world where industrial design was on par with industrial function. The phone moved more than 100 million units, a feat MOTO has been unable to reproduce.
  • Sony Ericsson T68i

    With Bluetooth wireless, two-way MMS and simple WAP web browsing, plus e-mail tools, the T68i phone bridged the gap between the Neanderthal phones that ushered in the decade, and the highly evolved smartphones on the market today.
  • RIM BlackBerry 7290

    Though hardly the first BlackBerry, the 7290 was a killer combo of technology, with quadband GSM, a vivid color screen, Bluetooth and of course the full QWERTY keyboard that brought e-mail and the web right into the palm of your hand
  • Apple iPhone 3G

    The second-generation Apple iPhone added GPS and 3G speed to an already-winning formula. But the real hit was the iTunes App Store: a place where developers could extend the platform to become the near-equal of the desktop computing space.
  • iPhone 4

    The iPhone 4 has a stainless steel casing, all-glass front, and a design Jobs describes as the thinnest smartphone on the planet: almost 25 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS. The iPhone 4 will have volume controls on the side of the phone along with an accessible microSIM tray. The iPhone 4 features a front-facing camera, and the back sports a microphone, 30pin connector for
  • iPhone 6s

    Our iPhone 6 has been updated to reflect the fact that iOS 10.3 is now available on Apple's smartphone from two and a half years ago.