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The electrical telegraph invented 1837 by Samuel F. B. Morse 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell with a prototype telephone (required speaking and listening in the same opening) 1890s wall-mounted phone with a magnetic hand crank 1896 - Hand crank phone with mic and speaker built into one handle Candlestick telephone around 1915 1919 - The rotary phone enters service under the Bell System 1950s - Invention of plastics paved the way for plastic ring rotary phones 1960s - Touch tone phones become the next evolution of telephony 1980s saw the introduction of the first commercial cordless phones 2004 - Broadband Internet makes it possible for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to hit commercial markets Late 1970s - Car phones, making use of large antennae, start to proliferate 1990s - Digital cordless phones start replacing analog ones 2009 - Anyone who still owns a landline probably has one of these babies in their house. May not look as cool as Alexander Bell's original, but it's a lot easier to use! 1983 - Motorola's first FCC approved mobile phone becomes available. Analog is sexy. Mobile phone kits for military became some of the earliest practically used mobile phones Early 1990s - The first 2G networks develop. Smaller, digital cellular phones emerge. 1996 - Flip phones hit! OMG! 2000s - Obnoxious, pink Razrs become the phone of choice among eleventeen year olds. Alexander Bell rolls once in his grave... 2000s - Slider phones morph out of the regular digital cell 2000s - Candy bar cell phones start doing more than just make phone calls. SMS and other features emerge as regular options on most phones Music phones proliferate, and cell phone companies try to find weird ways to make them open Late 2000s - T Mobile's Sidekick embodies crazy contraption cell phones emphasizing music and data capabilities 2002 - BlackBerry smartphone is introduced. BlackBerry included email and web browsing functionality, and quickly became the "hip" phone of the busy businessman... Palm follows BlackBerry in producing another smartphone. Palm Treo models slowly evolve over the next 5 years 2009 - Palm Pre becomes the sexy great great great great great great.... great grandbaby of A. Bell's original telephone. Evolution has given it apps, multiprocessing, and a slick interface... 3G arrives, and BlackBerry evolves, giving consumers the Bold and other sexier smartphones Android joins the smartphone market, bringing Java and open-source programming to smartphones and opening up worlds of possibility for application developers BlackBerry Storm becomes the first touch-screen BlackBerry, competing with its cousins the Pre, iPhone, and Android smartphones for supremacy iPhone drops in 2007, and with it the iTunes App Store is born. iPhone takes the smartphone game to the next level with myriad applications and features 2008 - iPhone evolves... but looks roughly the same?...? Evolution stops bothering with physical appearance with yet another iPhone! GPS and other high-tech features become standard. Mobile web browsing is so common it's taken for granted!