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Car to Car radios.
Detroit Police tried mobile radios in their cars to communicate with the police cars around him. -
Mobile Radios
Mobile Radio's became very popular. Only government and very rich people could get them. -
Phone service and car phone service
vfirst mobile phone service is established , and the first car phone service is attempted .. They both failed. -
Carphone Service
The second attempt at car phone service was successful. The equipment was very heavy and large but it was an improvement from what they had made in the past. -
The word "cell" comes in.
AT&T proposed splitting phone service into different areas across the cities. These areas were called cells. -
The first cell phone is tried
Dr. Martin Cooper invented a portable hand-held phone that didnt need to be powered by a car. he was the first to make a phone call. -
The cell phone goes public
It took ten years for the technology that Dr. Cooper invented to become available to the public. Motorola was the first company to release a cell phone. -
The flip phone is introduced
Motorola came out with a new design where the mouth piece flipped over the top of the keypad. 'Twas the first flip phone. -
Text Messaging
Developers in Europe came up with a way to send written messages over the phone. It was called texting. -
The first smart phone is invented
The smart phone could send and receive emails and messages. It needed a headset and a mic to be able to work. -
A camera phone is made
Sanyo made a phone that could snap pictures. Then people could download them to their computers. -
The Apple Iphone is released
Apple released its first iphone and it changed the cellular industry. It featured a touch screen and allowed users to do almost anything they could do from a home computer, which basically changed the way people lived.
