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The first telephone
The first telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish inventor and engineer. The first phone call was made was between Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson. -
Telephone service on train was approved
The train Deustche Reichsbahn between Hamburg and Berlin had the first telephone service on train, only available for 1st class travellers. -
AT&T Commercialisation
AT&T, an American telecom service, commercialized Mobile Telephone Service. It served 5000 customers with 30000 calls each week. However, it was expensive with $15/month. The call subscriber equipment weighed 36kg. -
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The experiment of handheld cellphone
A Moscow engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich introduced a range of experimental models of handheld cell phone. -
The first mobile phone call
a Motorola engineer, Martin Cooper, called an opponent telecommunications to notify that he was speaking via a cell phone.
The phone took 10 hours to charge and 30 minutes to talk. -
The first 1G network
The first analog cellular networks 1G was first introduced in Chicago, America, and in later years were introduced in Europe and Australia -
the release of Mobira Senator model
the Mobira Senator model, produced by Nokia, weighed 9.8kg. It was a box type with monochrome screen with heavy battery technology. -
The first commercial mobile phone
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was released and becoem the first commercial handheld cellular phone. It allowed 30 minutes talk and 6 hours standby and able to save 30 phone numbers. The cost: approx $4000. -
Nokia's the first handhelf mobile phone
the Mobira Cityman 900 was one of the first compact phones compared to earlier models. It weighed approximately 800g -
The birth of 2G
2G (the Second Generation) operating systems emerged, which led to the big arrival of prepaid mobile phones. -
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Ascending change in design and portability
There was a huge movement in the way people design and upgrade phones. The requirements and demand increased, which made the phone design and functions go to higher level. -
the first GSM launched in Finland
Harri Holkeri, the prime minister of Finland, makes the world's first GSM call from Esplanadi Park, Helsinki, Finland. The network was built by Telenokia and Siemens. -
The first SMS message
SMS (Short message service) was first time ever sent in the world, from the UK by Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old British engineer. GHe sent the 1st text message via Vodafone's UK network to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone. The message said, "Merry Chistmas." -
IBM Simon: the first smartphone
IBM Simon is considered to be the world's first smartphone was ever introduced. It had basic settings: calendar, clock, calculator, and also touchscreens, email and QWERTY keyboard. IBM Simon had predictive typing and applications. -
Motorola StarTAC
Motorola StarTAC is the world's first clamshell handset and it was inspired by Star Trek commandor. -
Nokia 5110
The Nokia 5110 was released and it had outstanding battery duration and SNAKE featured. Also in this phone, the first content for phones was downloaded successfully -
BlackBerry 850
The first handset mobile phone was released by BlackBerry. It supported email and limited HTML browsing, the small device featured a monochrome screen. -
The world's first 3G service
The first pre-commercial network with the next generation, 3G, was introduced by DoCoMo, the largest telephone service provider in Japan. It was initially branded Frontier of Mobile Multimedia Access (FOMA) -
Motorola Razr V3
It was sold over 130 million phones and it is the best-selling clamshell handset in history. They were first developed in July 2003 but then released in the market in the third quarter of 2004. -
BlackBerry 7270
This BlackBerry model featured Wifi and since then, BlackBerry became a worldwide addiction until mid 2000s, when Apple took over everything. -
Nokia N95
It was called "A true smartphone". Nokia N95 has Symbian operating system with 5-megapixel camera and Bluetooth, Wifi. It has 2 way sliding options, which is the new design for phone at that time. Nokia N95 has set the solia platform for smartphones industry to develop. -
296 million ussers on 3G global networks
At the same time, Japan & South Korea no longer supplied 2G phones -
The first iPhone
"It was a Multi-touch device that had its own operating system, iPhone OS. Bringing back the PDS roots of the Newto and the iTunes from the ROCKR, it was a game changer in the cell phone market" (Morrisey, 2010). -
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iPhone Revolution
Since the release of the first iPhone, the smartphone market has been totally dominated by Apple, the company which made the massive change to the face of mobile phones history -
4G Trial
at this time, 4G trial was on trial and it removed the circuit switch instead employing an all-IP network, which got rid of the disadvantages of 3G network. -
iPhone 8GB 16GB available
Apple released 16GB iPhone models that included Assisted GPs, which helps Google Maps and directions -
the new iPhone 4
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and CEO, announced the new iPhone 4 in WWDC. It was a massive revolution for iPhone as well as cell phone markets. iP4 has new processor, larger battery, 5 mega camera with LED flash, also front-facing camera for video conferencing. -
iPhone 3G was released
This phone had outstanding touchscreens and it set a high standard for mobile phone design and portability. Since, mobile phone has been standardized by Apple products. -
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Smartphone Eruption
It is predicted that smartphone will dominate human's lives and its technology keeps changing every minute with the war between smartphone companies, and smartphone is the biggest invention in technology.
