History of the mobile

**Spiral** · #1 (**permalink**) 04-11-2006, 04:38 PM

History of the mobile

Ever wondered how the mobile phone became the world’s most loved gadget? Here’s a time line on how it all happened.

1880 - Alexander Graham Bell and his cousin Charles Bell communicate over the Photophone, a device that transmits voice over a light beam.

1910 - Lars Magnus Ericsson (who gave his name to the Swedish mobile phone company) and his wife Hilda work the first car telephone. Access was not by radio. Using two long sticks, like fishing rods, they would hook up to telephone wires. Ericsson would then crank the dynamo handle of the telephone, which produced a signal to an operator in the nearest exchange.

1924 – Bell Laboratories in the US invents the first version of a mobile, two way, voice based radio telephone in 1924

1946 - In Saint Louis, Missouri, AT&T and Southwestern Bell introduced the first American commercial mobile radio-telephone service to private customers.

1968 - Engineers begin developing technologies to increase the capacity of mobile phones using cellular systems

1973 - Motorola demonstrates a design for the DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total AreaCoverage) portable radiotelephone. The world’s first commercial portable telephone uses a radio technology called cellular.

1977 - First trials of cellular phone system in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. World’s first commercial mobile phone network begins in Bahrain a year later.

1981 – First European mobile phone network in Denmark. The UK got its first system in 1985.

1990s – First GSM networks (2G) set up in Europe.

1992 – First text message sent.

1999 – First WAP handsets and services launched.

2000 – Photo messaging launched in Japan. The auction of 3G frequencies across Europe leads to billion pound deals.

2001 – GPRS (General Packet Radio System) services launched in Europe. The introduction of these networks makes it possible for larger files such as images to be sent quickly by mobile phone handsets. First home controlling systems via GPRS become available

2002 – Nokia unveils the first European MMS (photo-messaging equipped camera phone, the 7650. T-Mobile is the first network to offer the service in the UK.

2003 – 3 (part of the Hutchison group) become the first operator to offer 3G services in the UK. Among the features it offers are; online games, videophones and Premiership football highlights streamed direct to handsets.

2004/5 – 3G services launched by the entire main in networks in the UK. Most offer video and music download services. Apple/Motorola and Sony Ericsson start to push the music phone, while the first phone offering live TV is delivered by Orange.

2006 - With 3G services widely available, home controlling systems such as the ability to control video recorders or connected cookers starts to be offered by the networks.

2010 – 4G services begin in Japan, and a year later in Europe. With download speeds up to 250 times faster than 3G, high quality video can be easily transferred. Almost every electrical device now features an IP address enabling it to be connected to the Internet and thereby controlled via mobile phones handsets.

Sihmar_Online · #2 (**permalink**) 04-11-2006, 07:56 PM

Thanks For Info Spiral.

phanna555 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-12-2006, 05:15 AM

Good ifo show here spiral, thanks.

nigeria_rocks · #4 (**permalink**) 04-12-2006, 07:42 AM

2010 hasnt come yet.

lol

anyways
Thanks

kkan · #5 (**permalink**) 04-12-2006, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Spiral

History of the mobile

Ever wondered how the mobile phone became the world’s most loved gadget? Here’s a time line on how it all happened.

1880 - Alexander Graham Bell and his cousin Charles Bell communicate over the Photophone, a device that transmits voice over a light beam.

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going to correct you right here ... a few facts for you ...

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In the 1870s, two inventors 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 patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.

right NOW THE TRUTH ....

BOTH decided to PATENT their IDEAS on the SAME DAY at the SAME PATENT office .....

Alexander Graham Bell got their first along with some LAWYERS and a LARGE SUM OF BRIBE MONEY ...

when Elisha Gray got to the patent office later on that day ... he submitted his patent ...

when the patent was returned to Elisha Gray it was DECLINED to which Elisha Gray accepted his defeat thinking that Alexander Graham Bell won by being there first and won the patent by being first .....

the TERRIBLE TRUTH was later to appear it was Elisha Gray's drawings and ideas that were PATENTED..... Alexander Graham Bell had BRIBED the PATENT OFFICER to give him the PLANS and award the PATENT to him (Alexander Graham Bell) stealing Elisha Gray's ideas right out from under poor unfortunate Elisha Gray's nose

Alexander Graham Bell 1 - Elisha Gray 0

Elisha Gray tried to contest the PATENT but it was overturned Alexander Graham Bell had bigger backing and funding and better LAWYERS to cover his tracks and win again!

poor Elisha Gray died a broken man whilst Alexander Graham Bell made it bigtime and became RICH and FAMOUS and the name we all know in history today as the so called inventor of the TELEPHONE

OK history lesson over

**Spiral** · #6 (**permalink**) 04-12-2006, 09:58 AM

It seem complicted .
Poor man . too many effots and in the final the credit go to another person .
but anyway . the important is that Phones has knew a great evolution in all sens ...