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The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. While the transmission of speech by signal has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, mobile, and also capable of connecting to the standard telephone network are much more recent.
1971: AT&T submitted a proposal for cellular phone service to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 3 April 1973: Motorola employee Martin Cooper placed the first hand-held cell phone call to Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs, while talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype.
From Finland the Nokia 1011 was introduced in 1992, as the first mass-market battery-powered portable cell phone. From Canada the BlackBerry Pearl reached an upscale market after 2006 when T-Mobile US bundled it to subscribers. [32] By 2000 most of the 111 million cell phone subscribers talked on them while driving.
Much to the chagrin of teenage girls everywhere, a menacing looking, middle-aged man named Tony Wright has broken the world record for the longest phone call. According to reports, the man talked ...
One of the first Alcatel phone was Alcatel OT Easy HF, released in 1998. [12] Its battery standby time was up to 140 hours. 2014: Alcatel OneTouch Pop 7 was released. [13] 2015: Alcatel OneTouch Pop Fit was released. The Pop Fit could be strapped to a wrist. [14] 2016: Saw several releases: Alcatel Idol 4s, [15] Pop 4, Pop 4+, Pop 4s, and Pop 7 ...
The Mobile Revolution is a 2014 Swedish documentary written and directed by Magnus Sjöström about the history of the cell phone and how it has impacted human behaviour and society. The documentary was produced by UR, The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company [2] and was broadcast by SVT in December 2014. It has since also aired in Spain. [3]
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