Cell phones have become incredibly advanced in a relatively short amount of time, and the possibilities for the future are seemingly endless. Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone and 1878 he made the first phone cell. Those phones were completely different from the devices we have today. However, in 1983, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x arrived on the market, it was considered the first truly mobile phone because it was small enough to carry.
But cell phone use hadn’t spread to the general public yet. They were primarily used in the sales and business world, but not often for personal use like you see today. Early cell phones were just for talking. Gradually, features like voicemail were added, but the main purpose was talk. Eventually, cell phone manufacturers began to realize that they could integrate other technologies into their phone and expand its features.
The Evolution of Cell Phones
1946: Bell system introduced the first commercial mobile telephone service, called the Mobile Telephone System (MTS). The original equipment was large, weighting 80 pounds with limited calling bands available.
1956:Ericsson’s Mobile System A (MTA) was the first partly automatic mobile system for automobiles. First used by Sweden, the unit weighed a whopping 88 pounds.
1964:With the adoption of Bell’s newer pre cellular improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS), auto owners saw lighter, more advanced mobile car phones with push buttons.
1973: Martin Cooper made the first private, practical mobile phone call in a non vehicle setting.
1983: Motorola’s DynaTAC cellular phone was made available to the public, weighing under 2 pounds, but costing nearly $4,000.
1984: The Mobira Talkman brought longer talk time at cheaper costs.
1989: Micro TAC was the first flip phone design. The hardware was placed in a hinged section of the phone, reducing the phone’s size when not in use.
1992: The Motorola International 3200 became the first hand sized digital mobile phone that used 2G digitally encrypted technology.
1993: Perhaps the world’s first smartphone IBM Simon was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA, all rolled into one.
1997: The Nokia 9000 Communicator was the first cell phone that could also be called a mini computer.
1998:The Nokia 8810 was the first cell phone without an external antenna whip or stub antenna.
1999: Noka 7110 was the first cell phone to incorporate Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), which gave mobile users web access for simple devices.
1999: GeoSentric integrated the world’s first mobile phone and a GPS.
1999: In Japan, Kyocera’s Visual Phone was the first to have a built in camera.
2002: Danger Hiptop was one of the first phones to equip a fully functional web experience and integrate an instant messaging client (AIM)
2007: In 2007 Steve Job introduced the Apple iPhone, a revolutionary touch screen smartphone.
2008: HTC Dream was the first smartphone to run Google’s Android OS.
2010: The HTC EVO 4G from Sprint was the first cellular phone to meet 4G standards, running on the WiMAX network.
