Today

Today, smartphones are still advancing with the Android and iPhone being the top paid brands in todays market. Although the Nokia Lumia 710 was the first nokia smartphone, it failed at being a game changer in the smartphone world. As smartphones advance, so do their features: cameras and mobile "skyping" has been enabled to almost every newly released smartphone with data plans. Every day as the world progresses, so will technology.

Apps !

2008: App Store

And phones change forever. Third-party apps make smart phones more versatile than ever imagined.

Apple launches software development kits to help developers embed free and paid apps on the iOS.

2007: iPhone & Android

     After five long years, came one of the biggest innovations in history.

The iPhone: First multi-touch smartphone that changes the category altogether. Sleek design with a single home button, users type into the screen.

The Android: A Linux-based operating system Google bought in 2005 comes out with the first Android-phone : HTC Dream. The open-source system eventually powers Samsung, Motorola, LG and other brands.

2002: BlackBerry 5810

The first Blackberry, it set up all other business phones into motion. It set up instant access to your email one click away. This phone gained huge financial success with staff in senior management, making office communication far beyond easy.

1999: Kyocera VP-210

The world's first phone with a built-in camera comes from Japan, a company called Kyrocera.
It is meant for face-to-face communication so the lens is on the front of the camera. The click button is on the front of the phone so it's hard to capture anything but yourself.

1996: Nokia Communicator

The nokia communicator was noted for being one of the first flip open phones (called clamshell design) and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard. Other flip phones branched not longer after the nokia was released

World's first Smartphone

The first smartphone was released in 1993 by Samsung, the design was fairly simple. The full name was IBM Simon Personal Communicator. Simon is a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA rolled into one. With apps including calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail , and games. http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/12/06/the-history-of-the-smartphone/

Cell phones

In 1947, research into cell phones technology began with an examination of the limited mobile (car) phones of the times. Scientists realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with frequency reuse they might be able to increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones substantially. The research for cell phone development came long before the cordless phone was even released in the 1970's. These cell phones, were made in 1973, by Motorola by Dr. Martin Cooper. The cost was about four thousand dollars. It was nicknamed the boot, because of it's shape.

Other inventions.

Other inventions inspired the telephone and telegraph came at this time. The switch board came around when service lines were being installed throughout cities. The first switchboard was set up in Boston in 1877. On January 17, 1882, Leroy Firman received the first patent for a telephone switchboard. The first telephone company was also started by Bell around this time. Exchanges and Rotary dialing were invented by Almon B. Strowger in 1889, the switch made it possible for one switch to connect the users line with over 100 lines because each subscriber to the telephone had to set up their own line. This switch became known as "The Strowger Switch" and was still in use in some telephone offices well over 100 years later. Almon Strowger was issued a patent on March 11, 1891 for the first automatic telephone exchange. In 1889, the first coin-operated telephone or pay phone was patented William Gray of by Hartford, Connecticut. Gray's pay phone was first installed and used in the Hartford Bank.

The telephone

After years of using the dot-and-dash forms of Morse code, Bell went on to use the utility of electricity to help invent the first telephone. With the help of Thomas Watson, Bell successfully used the harmonic telephone in June 1875. Alexander Graham Bell's notebook entry of 10 March 1876 describes his successful experiment with the telephone. Speaking through the instrument to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in the next room, Bell utters these famous first words, "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you." Utilizing voice through electricity in the harmonic telephone was the tip of the iceberg for Bell, the next step was creating a series of telephone lines where parties could connect to each other to use the telephone. In 1877, construction of the first regular telephone line from Boston to Somerville, Massachusetts was completed. By the end of 1880, there were 47,900 telephones in the United States. The following year telephone service between Boston and Providence had been established. http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

1870's - The Telegraph

               The smartphone or (feature phone) is a branch from cellular phones including mobile internet data. The first cellular phone. The origin of the cellular phone itself was also branched off coming from an idea that started over 100 years ago and then proceeded to advance more and more. In the 1870s, two inventor Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell finished his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won. After 30 years of communication with the telegraph, Bell felt it limited to only sending/receiving one message at a time, to eliminate this Bell began experimenting with different sounds. With the help of using multiple sound methods, Bell successfully send multiple messages at a time without tampering with the main functionality of the telegraph