History of Cell Phones Quiz

Which German company developed and sold wireless telephony equipment to train operators in the 1920s?

• Motorola

• Nokia

• Zugtelephonie AG

• Bell Labs

What was the name of the first-ever wireless telephony system launched in 1946?

• General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

• Mobile Telephone Service (MTS)

• Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)

• Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)

Who developed the world's first cell phone prototype in 1973?

• Bell Labs

• Joel S. Engel

• Calvin Wankhede

• Martin Cooper

Which company released the first consumer-ready cell phone, DynaTAC 8000X, in 1983?

• Nokia

• Motorola

• Samsung

• IBM

What was the name of the first fully digital cellular standard introduced in the 1990s?

• Second Generation (2G)

• Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)

• Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)

• General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

Which phone released in 1994 became the world's first phone capable of composing a text message?

• Nokia 2010

• Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

• IBM Simon

• Nokia 8110

Which company released the first camera phone, SCP-5300, in the US in the early 2000s?

• Nokia

• Sanyo

• Ericsson

• Sony

Which phone became the best-selling clamshell phone of all time between 2004 and 2008?

• Motorola StarTAC

• Motorola Razr V3

• BlackBerry 850

• Nokia 8110

Which operating systems rapidly gained key features like PDF rendering, video conferencing, and support for third-party apps in the early 2000s?

• Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, and webOS

• Windows Phone, Tizen, and Firefox OS

• Android, iOS, and BlackBerry OS

• Symbian, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile

Which company entered the cell phone market in 2007 with the release of the iPhone?

• Apple

• Nokia

• Motorola

• Samsung