Mobile phones History (Timeline)

 Cellphones are playing a vital role in our life.With the time more intersting cells are been built .The history of cellphones is also interesting .Lets have a look.


Date                                                      Event

1921	The first car-to-car radios are used The Detroit Police Department began using mobile radios in their police cars. They used them to talk between cars, but it didn't work very well.
1934	The Federal Communications Committee is established The government used most radio frequencies for itself, but the air waves were still clogged up. The FCC was created to decide who got to use which channels.
1940	Communication by mobile radios becomes more common By the 1940's most government agencies, as well as the rich people, had mobile radios. They used them while they were on the go to talk to others
1945	The first mobile phone service is established The first service created just for mobile phones opened up in St. Louis, MO, but the service didn't work well and it didn't last.
1947	The first car phone service is attempted A car phone service was opened between Boston and New York, but this service was a failure, too.
1956	A second attempt at car phones is made The second attempt at car phones was a success. The equipment was large and heavy, but it worked, and that was an improvement over the past.
1971	The term "cell" comes into play AT & T proposed splitting phone service into different areas across the cities. These areas were called "cells".
1973	The first cell phone is tried Dr. Martin Cooper invented a portable hand-held phone that didn't need to be powered through a car. He was the first person to make a mobile phone call.
1983	The cell phone goes public It took ten years for the technology that Dr. Cooper invented to become available to the public. The first public cell phones were put out by Motorola.
1989	The flip phone is introduced Motorola came out with a new design where the mouth piece flipped over the top of the keypad. It was the first flip phone.
1993	Text messaging is developed Developers in Europe came up with a way to send written messages over the phone. It was called texting.
2002	The first smart phone is invented The smart phone could send and receive emails and messages, but it didn't have a speaker or microphone. This meant it needed a headset to work.
2002	A camera phone is made A company called Sanyo made a phone that could snap pictures. Later the user could download the pictures to a computer to be printed.
2007	The Apple Iphone is released Apple released its first iphone and it changed the cellular industry. It featured a touch screen and allowed users to do almost anything they could do from a home computer, which basically changed the way people lived.