The history of mobile phones

Mobile phones are seen as a modern invention, but they are a development of something that dates back a long way: communication.

To draw a line to define the beginning of the history of mobile phones, there are two events to consider: Bell's first telephone call, and Crippen's arrest as a result of a radio message.

Since those events, the technologies have merged and evolved to the point that we take it for granted that communication is available more or less everywhere, but this section looks at the significant steps along the way, and looks forward a little for a glimpse of the future.

Telephones looks at the development of the telephone system

Radio charts the progress of radio communications

Radiophone celebrates these two technologies coming together to bring radio telephones

Cellular marks the development of the first popular cellular mobile phone systems

Digital focuses on the emergence of a digital standard, GSM

Satellite describes the systems used for mobile use in a global perspective

Future ponders on what is next

...and we end up wondering what the future will think, in the Museum page.

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