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The First Wireless Telephone
It is said that in 1908, Professor Albert Johnke and the Oakland Transcontinental Aerial Telephone and Power Compnay developed the first wireless telephone. -
The German Railroad System
The German Railroad System made telephone service available in trains for the Deutsche Rechsbahn and the Garman Mail Service, for first class travelers, in 1926. -
Mobile Phones in Cars
In the 1940's, some telephone companies made mobile phones available in cars. -
Inauguration of Mobile Service
In 1946, mobile service was inaugurated, in St. Louis, Missouri. After this, AT&T began offering Mobile Telephone Service, which consisted of a wide range of mobile telephone services. But, these services had limited coverage and channels. -
The First Portable Phone
It debuted at the London exhibition, "Communications Today, Tomorrow and the Future," by Pye Telecommunications. The first demonstration of this phone was in New York City. -
The first TRUE Mobile phone
In 1983, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x became available as the first mobile phone. Martin Cooper is the one who is credited with this invention. It is said to be the first mobile phone because the previous mobile phones were not small enough to actually carry. This phone weighed two pounds and cost $3,995. It became a symbol in the culture of the early 1980's. It was the world's first commercial portable cellphone -
The 90's and Cellphones
The 1990's resulted in great improvements for cell phones. From 1990 to 1995, their designs and portability improved. By the late 1990's cell phones became a common consumer good because of these improvements. The late 90's produced cellphones like the Nokia 6110, Motorola StarTAC, Nokia 5110, and the BlackBerry 850. -
Nokia 6110
This cellphone was more advanced than any before. It had three games, such as Snake. It also had the technology for a calcualter, clock, calendar, currency converter, and profile settings. It even came in 4 different colors. -
Motorola StarTAC
This was the first "clamshell" handset phone, which the user could flip open and close. -
BlackBerry 850
This was the first cellphone released by the BlackBerry brand. -
Ericsson R380
This was the first "smartphone." It worked like a normal mobile phone, but it was the first to use the Symbian OS technology. -
Samsung SPH-M100 Uproar
This was the first cellphone that had the technology, for it to contain MP3 music. However, it was only able to play music for one hour. -
Sanyo SCP-5300
This was the first camera phone. Because of this phone, people no longer had to plug their phone into their computer too look at pictures. They could look directly on their phone's screen. -
Nokia 1100
This model of phone was the most-selling phone. With it's popularity, price, and availability, cellphones became available to many people, who did not have the opportunity before. -
iPhone
This phone, by Apple, is what made smartphones mainstream for public consumption. The design of the phone was more attractive and more user-friendly. It was the first smartphone where the user did not have to use a stylus or keyboard to interact with the phone. They were now able to just use thier finger. -
HTC Dream
This was the first smartphone to use the Android operating system. -
iPhone 5s
This phone introduced fingerprint recognition technology. -
Present Day "Cellphones"
Today, cellphones have technologies that would have seemed unimagineable to people 100 years ago. Our phones today have the capability to do anything a computer can do. We have also moved on from just using cellphones too. As of April 24, 2015, when Apple released the Apple Watch, we can now make phone calls from a watch on our wrist.
