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The first telephone
Robert Hooke created the first acoustic telephone which had no electricity. -
Morse code
Samuel B. Morse understood how to send messages also to transmit a pattern of sounds, this was known as Morse Code. -
The invention
In 1876 Graham Alexander Bell invented the first ever electrical telephone. -
First Wireless Phone call
Graham Alexander Bell worked on his invention and came up with the photophone, which could send sound on a beam of light. That was history's first wireless phone. -
Iconophone
AT&T created the Iconophone which is a phone that let people see, hear, and reply to each other in real time. -
The first text message
The worlds first commercial text message was sent out in 1992, it was written and sent by the employees of a company known as Logica CMG -
First smart phones
The first smart phones came out for the public to buy. IBM created one called Simon, which had a touch screen and could touch and recieve documents. -
Personal Communications Service
Sprint opens the first personal communications service. It was the first cellular network designed for private use for individuals who own cellular phones. -
Phone calls
Technology is developed to transmit phone calls over internet. Long -distance charges could be avoided through the use of established computer networks. -
Smartphone
Both the iTunes Store and the Android market opened up for smartphones users in 2008. This starts the beginning of a huge surge in the popularity of apps -
4G handset
Smartphones continue to develop in 2010. The first 4G handset was released in 2010, bringing data onto consumers phones at blazing-fast speed.