Today is the anniversary of the first cell phone call. 25 years of being connected almost all of the time and changing the way we live. I can’t even remember how life was before them.
On October 13th 1983, Ameritech executive Bob Barnett called the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell using the the original brick Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The mobile technology had improved in gigantic leaps in terms of size and services. Today the iPhone is showing the future of mobile technology. Although it is not doing everything that the technology supports, it is setting the guidelines on how things should work.
Here is a little more history about cell phones.
- The first patent for a wireless phone was issued in 1908
- The cells for mobile phones were invented in 1947 by Bells Labs at AT&T
- The first citywide cellular system was deployed in Japan in 1979
- In 1984 the cellular system as we know it was developer by Bells Labs, that allowed larger coverage areas because of they honey comb configuration
- The first SMS services appear in 1993 in Finland
Hera are some early commercials about the cellular phones.
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The people from Gizmodo made an awesome timeline. Click on it to see a larger version.
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