Mm, it was over a hundred years in between when basic ground line telephones were invented and smartphones like this, so probably not...?

Or, well... it takes a long time to get the groundwork, I think. But then each new advancement lets you reach the next one faster, and eventually you get to where new models are being released all the time, and the thing you just bought five years ago is already obsolete.

[ spoken as someone who was in elementary school in the 60s and 80s and high school in the 2000s... somehow... ]