March 10, 1876
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Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He invented the first telephone and was rewarded the first U.S patent for the invention. In the beginning, him and Elisha Gray fought over who made the telephone first but, Bell won the fight.
July 31, 1888
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Elisha Gray was born on August 2, 1835. Gray invented the telautograph (a telephone prototype) in Highland Park, Illinois and was the co-founder for the Western Manufacturer Company. He was the one who fought with Bell in 1876 to see who was the first person to make the telephone but, he ended up losing.
April 3, 1973
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The first cell phone was found in New York by Martin Cooper in 1973. He was also the first person to make a phone call on the cell phone and is known as the "father of cellular phones." He was born on December 26, 1928 and died March 15, 1986.
August 16, 1994 - February 1995
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The Simon Personal Communicator was created by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Las Vegas. It sold about 50,000 between the years 1994-1995 and people were able to send emails/phone calls to each other but, only lasted an hour. It discontinued one year after it's release.
November 1, 2000
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J-SH04 was released and manufactured by Sharp in Japan. The phone was the first to have a back- faced camera and the phone they released after that (J-SH05) succeed it when it released a month later.
November 19, 2001
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The Nokia 7650 was first introduced on November 19, 2001 in Barcelona and was the company's most important launch of the year. It was manufactured by Nokia and was the first phone to have a built-in camera. It had Bluetooth, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and GPRS.
March 4, 2002
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This phone was the first phone made by Blackberry in Waterloo, Ontario. They wanted a rise in their technology/ wanted to try something new. The blackberry 5810 didn't sell as much as they thought and, did not become as popular.
June 29, 2007
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The first iPhone ever made was released in 2007 and sold 2.2 billion. It was made by Steve Jobs ( the co- founder of Apple) and was made in Shenzhen, China. With this invention, people were able to play on apps with their phone.
October 22, 2008
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HTC Dream was the first android phone and it introduced us to the android phones which was released in Taiwan. It was invented by HTC and released on October 22, 2008. HTC Dream was later bought by Google and developed by Google,
June 29, 2009
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The Samsung Galaxy was the first one in the long running line of phones and was released on June 29, 2009 in Vietnam. It was made by Samsung and includes Gmail, Google Search, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Talk. There were lots of criticism for the lack of firmware updates but, people still seem to use Samsung phones.