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Martin Cooper demonstrates the cell phone for the first time in 1973
Martin Cooper stood on a Manhattan street in 1973 and placed the world's first call from a mobile phone to Joel S. Engel, the head of the cellular program at AT&T. -
Cell Phones are starting to be sold
The first commercial automated cellular network was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979. The phones had first generation systems (1G). -
The second generation phone is created
In 1991, the second generation (2G) digital cellular technology was launched in Finland by Radiolinja on the GSM standard. This started competition with the 1G network operators. -
The third generation system starts
Ten years later the third generation (3G) was launched in Japan by NTT DoCoMo on the WCDMA standard. -
The fourth generation starts
In 2009 the fourth generation starts (4G). The first two commercially available technologies billed as 4G were the WiMAX standard (offered in the U.S. by Sprint) and the LTE standard, first offered in Scandinavia by TeliaSonera. -
The 4s iPhone is realeased.
The iPhone 4s is realeased by Apple that has the 4G system. -
The iPhone 6 and 6 plus is released.
The iPhone 6 and 6 plus is released and it the most advanced cell phone out there today. It has the LTE and 4G system.
