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Alexander Graham Bell creates the first phone. The first words spoken via telephone were from Bell to his assistant Watson, saying "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
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In July of 1777 the Bell Telephone Company was formed by Gardiner Hubbard.
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First phone with the ability to dial out rather than going through an operator.
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The Frankfut "Bauhaus" is created. It was known as the first version of the rotary telephone.
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In 1960 in Sweden, the first automatic mobile phone system for cars (Mobile Telephone System A) was launched.
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AT&T creates the first videophone.
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The first mobile phone, known as the AEG Telecar CD, is created
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The first flip cell phone, the Motorola MicroTAC9800X, is created.
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The IBM Simon is created and is considered to be the first smart phone and touch screen.
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The Motorola StarTAC is created, and it helps start the cell phone craze.
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The Sharp J-SHO4 becomes the first cell phone with a camera built in.
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The Blackberry 5810 is created, revolutionizing the telephone industry as well as introducing the world to the BlackBerry Brand.
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The first iPhone is created by Steve Jobs and Apple. The iPhone allowed for your phone to be an iPod, a telephone, and was able to have games known as "apps."
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The T-Mobile G1 is created, becoming the first phone to use Google's Android operating system.
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Pranav Mistry and his studies at MIT found that through the use of a simple camera, it could bring the digital world to the physical world. He came out with this study in 2009, but has not been released to the public.
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The LG Flutter will have an opportunity to be featured in a future blockbuster movie. The device opens up like a fan, as you can see in the image above and has a flexible OLED touch screen display that scrolls radically.
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The Kambala is a mobile phone that transforms to an earphone as well. Pop the center piece and the earpiece clip pings out; clip this to your ear and you got a phone-earphone! Multilayered Polymer which hosts all the electronic components is used in its construction. A continuous flexi-screen with plenty of sensors makeup the surface and it has the ability to transmit the image on the inside of the phone to the outside.
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Mexican designer Veronica Eugenia Rodriguez Ortiz created the Yuxa wearable cell phone concept. This is an eco-friendly phone featuring an OLED display and rechargeable battery, plus an innovative means of communication.
