MobilePhoneby Hninn Lei Aung

What is it ? Mobile phones are also known as cellular

phones, cell phones and handphones. The first hand- held cell phone was

demonstrated by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973. The first phone to be

commercially available was DynaTAC 8000x in 1993. Worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 6 billion and reaching the bottom

of the economic pyramid. But in this modern age, mobile phones can now do

a wide variety of works. Like text messaging, voice messaging, email,

internet, short-range wireless communications like Infrared, Bluetooth & NFC. But not only those, you can also

have many powerful business applications, gaming and yes, even

photography. And for all those powerful features, they’re named “Smartphones”

lately.

TechnologyCellular technology | Smartphones | Softwares |

Future techs

A company called, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) launched the first automated cellular network in 1979. By that time NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) system was also launched in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Then other countries followed in the early and mid 1980s. They used first generation (1G) system which still used analog technology.

But in 1991, Finland company called Radiolinja launched the second generation technology (2G) on the GSM standard.

Ten years after 2G was launched, there was new generation of digital telecommunication technology called (3G) launched on the WCDMA standard in Japan. This third generation technology was followed by 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G which are based on the high-speed packet access called (HSPA).

In 2009, the 3G networks became overwhelmed by the growth of bandwidth-intensive applications like streaming media. The industry began to look for data-optimized 4th generation technology (4G) and they promised it with the speed improvements up to 10-fold over current 3G networks. 4G was first launched in U.S. by Sprint Network on LTE standard.

Cellular Technology

SmartphonesWe call modern mobile phones which can operate more advanced computing

capability and connectivity with OS (Operating System) a smartphone.

First, Smartphones came from combined features of a mobile phone and other popular consumer devices, such as PDA (Personal digital assistant), a media player, a digital camera or a GPS navigation device.

A modern smartphone features web browsing, Wi-Fi, and 3rd party apps and carefully designed for perfect user-experience with a touch-screen display.

And 90% of the handset sales in worldwide market are smartphones now.

Softwares

Mobile operating systems, knowns as mobile OS-es are combined the features of a personal-computer with small-sized screen experience. There are already many mobile operating systems out there and above shows the commonly known mobile OS-es. Palm OS is the very first mobile OS introduced with Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistance in 1996. And then, Microsoft introduced First Windows CE handheld PC in 1996. Nokia start it’s Symbian OS in 1999 along with the Nokia 7110. And Symbian becomes the first modern mobile OS on a smartphone with the launch of the Ericsson R380 in year 2000. In 2012, Blackberry released its smartphone which made texting, emailing and communication through handheld devices easier. Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005 and they worked on Android development for 2 years without releasing to public.

2007 is where the revolutionaries started happening, Apple introduced it’s mobile OS known us “iOS” as an iPhone. The first commercially available smartphone which was running Android was the HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008. Google launched It’s Nexus series of devices in 2010.

Currently, Android & iOS take the lead of mobile operating system market.

Future TechWearable technology also called wearable devices, tech togs or fashion

electronics are what’s coming next. Currently Google Glass and Samsung Gear Watch are commonly known devices and we may see many other wearable

gadgets soon in 2014..

Use of Cell Phones

Mobile phones are now used for a variety of purposes in this age, for keeping in touch with family, friends and business contacts.

What do you use your mobile phone for ?

When do you use ?

How many times doyou use a day ?

As mentioned, People use mobile phones for many other purposes like• For distributing content

• Mobile banking and payments

For distributing content

Radiolinja made the first mode of distributing and selling media contents through the mobile phone by selling ringtones in 1998.

In 2006, the total worth of mobile phone contents was worth 31 billion dollars. Music over mobile phone content worths 9.3 billion dollars, gaming was over 5 billion dollars in 2007.

Mobile Phones are now also a part of banking and payments and many countries use them to transfer cash payments.

The first mobile payment were trailed by two Coca-Cola vending machines in Finland in 1998. The idea has been spread lately. The last technology of mobile payments which is able to make billing through contactless payments is called NFC (near field communication), this latest technology can be seen in almost every smartphone now.

Mobile Banking and Payments

FeaturesHand-held phone (mobile phone) were first only able to make calls and receive calls over a radio link on the go. Being able to make calls and receive moving around wide geographic area is with made Mobile phone different from cordless telephone which can only used within a short range of area. By the time goes on, mobile phones have numbers of features nowadays.

Many mobile phones with different features with additional functions are now distributed by many competing manufactures. Mobile phone development had been led to great innovation over the past 20 years.

Text Messaging

also called SMS (Short Messaging Service) is the most commonly used data application on mobile phones with an estimated 3.5 billion active users at the end of 2010.

MultimediaMultimedia stuffs like photo, music and internet access are what Smartphones

made Mobile phone popular among teenagers. Back in 90s' no one could

imagined having internet in your pocket.

Different mobile operators and different countries offer internet-access through

mobile phones with different technologies like 2G, 3G, 4G, etc..

Health Effect

According to recent studies cell phone usage for ten years approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with brain tumor on the same side of the head as the preferred use of mobile phones. But anyhow, a study published in 24 March 2012 in the British Medical Journal questioned these estimates, because the increase of brain cancers has not paralleled the enormous increase in mobile phone usage.

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