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History of mobile phones. A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile ...
Mobile phone. A mobile phone or cell phone[ a] is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone ( landline phone ). The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone ...
This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone.. Charles Bourseul Johann Philipp Reis Elisha Gray Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Augustus Watson Tivadar Puskás Emile Berliner Charles Sumner Tainter Theodore Newton Vail
Metropolis 1927 - Videophone. Watch on. In 1927, videophone communication reached the popular consciousness through Fritz Lang's science fiction film Metropolis. The first publicly operated, two ...
HTC Magic/Google Ion (2009) The HTC Magic was yet another device with many names -- Google used a version of the phone it called the Ion as one of its development devices, and it launched in the ...
Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X might ring a bell as it looks similar to the handset Zack Morris carried around the halls of Bayside on Saved by the Bell. The 8000X was the first truly portable ...
Photo courtesy of Flickr/John Morton. Pre-digital age. It’s easy to remember this age as a time where devices had just one function. It was where media was physical, and where technologies lived ...
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...