Android Phones For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 5

It’s a Telephone

In This Chapter

Calling someone

Calling with speed dial

Getting a call

Dismissing calls

Handling multiple calls

Setting up a conference call

Configuring call forwarding options

Banishing a contact to voicemail

The patent for the telephone was awarded to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Telephone-like devices existed before then, and a host of 19th century scientists worked on the concept. Bell beat them all to the patent office, so he gets the credit. And it took many more years for people to patent other, ancillary inventions, including the busy signal (1878), the notion of a second line for teenage girls (1896), and the extension cord, which allowed for simultaneously ...