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The Blueprint For The First Mobile Phone Was Created
The idea of a hexagonal honeycomb of adjoining antenna sites was innovated by AT&T researcher Douglas H. RIng. With this ideal, car phones were able to transcribe and receive limited frequencies in a single citywide antenna and costs an outrageous $2,500 (Stewart Wolpin). -
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Perfected Cellular Frequency
Drop calls began to face a demise thanks to the work of AT&T engineers Joel Engel and Richard Frenkiel. AT&T became in total and utter control as the leading telephone service in the U.S. Stewart Wolpin). -
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Compacting And Creating The Modern Phone
Marty Cooper and his leading team at Motorola began work on December 3rd, 1972 with efforts focused on shifting phones from car phones to mobile handheld phones. Just five short months later the mission was complete with the first DynaTAC handheld phones (Richard Goodwin). -
World's First Cell Phone Was Created And First Successful Call Transmitted
Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, created a prototype termed DynaTAC that then became the first mobile phone where you got 30 minutes of talk-time with a 10 hour charge time to follow. To prove his invention Cooper made the first public call ever made on his newly invented cellphone (Richard Goodwin). -
First Commercial Mobile Phone On The Market
Motorola sold the first personal cell phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, with 30 minute talk-time, six hour standby, and a storage of 30 phone numbers. The cost, though, was an astonishing $4,000 for each phone which was about half of the average salary of the time at 9,000 (Stewart Wolpin). -
America Starts Up Cell Phone Carrier Service
Ameritech started selling the DynaTAC and DynaTAC 8000X in a pre-designed payment plan that cost $50 a month and only 40 cents a minute per call. Ameritech sold 12,000 cell phones in just the first year of becoming a cell phone carrier service (Stewart Wolpin). -
Emergence Of Digital Smart Phones
Philips Consumer Communications created the first digital smart phone Synergy that allowed for wireless access to email, internet, and faxes (The Washington Post). -
Redefining The Modern Computer
The Hiptop, also known as the kickback, served as a mini-computer in its capabilities of web browsing, e-mail servicing, instant messaging, as well as access to various apps, a digital camera, and numerous video games of the time (The Washington Post). -
Introducing the Modern Phone Of Today
Steve Jobs created the iPhone that combined and completely renovated existing cell phone features with advancing in the ease and accessibility of a personal mobile phone to another (The Washington Post).
