Phones Over Time

By 20kalaub

  • First Telephone Created

    First Telephone Created
    They 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: "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you." http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_telephone_1.html

  • First Rotary Dial Phone

    First Rotary Dial Phone
    In 1889, the rotary telephone dial was invented by Almon B. Strowger , a Kansas City undertaker. The first dial exchange was installed at La Porte, Indiana, in 1892. In 1943, Philadelphia was the last major area to give up dual service. http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm

  • First Car Phone

    First Car Phone
    A car phone is a mobile phone device specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile. This service originated with the Bell System, and was first used in St. Louis on June 17 1946. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_phone

  • First Portable CellPhone Call Is Made

    First Portable CellPhone Call Is Made
    The first portable cell phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola to his research rival at Bell Labs, Joel Engel. Although mobile phones had been used in cars since the mid-1940s, Cooper’s was the first one invented for truly portable use. He and his team are awarded a patent in 1975. http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625

  • First Handheld Phone

    First Handheld Phone
    Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007. DynaTAC is a series of cellular telephones manufactured by Motorola, Inc. from 1984 to 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC

  • First Touchscreen Phone

    First Touchscreen Phone
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    The IBM Simon was the first phone with a touchscreen in 1992 — it's also referred as the first “smartphone,” though the term was not yet coined. A few competitors came out in the early '90s, but most mobile devices with touchscreens were more like PDAs. http://mashable.com/2012/11/09/touchscreen-history/#deyf24hcSGqA

  • First iphone

    First iphone
    On June 29, 2007 the first iPhone was released. On June 11, 2007 announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine on the device. Third parties would create the Web 2.0 applications and users would access them via the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_iPhone

  • iphone 6s Released

    iphone 6s Released
    The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus are smartphones designed by Apple Inc. The devices are part of the iPhone series and were announced on September 9, 2015, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco by Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_6S