Do you still remember your first mobile handphone? My first mobile handphone was at my first year degree in UiTM --> NOKIA 3210.
During those days, Nokia is the famous brand for Mobile Banking. Its like using either iPhone or Samsung todays. Now mobile handphone technologies become more advance and compete with each others to market their product and technologies.
A little bit about mobile handphone should we know how it growth from the earlier till now.
A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, hand phone, or simply a phone) is a phone that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station.
Sources ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
Do you know when the mobile phone has been introduced and how it looks like?
Resources : http://www.knowyourmobile.com/
Resources : http://www.knowyourmobile.com/
The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. The phone Cooper used, if you could call it that, weighed a staggering 1.1kg and measured in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. With this prototype device, you got 30 minutes of talk-time and it took around 10 hours to charge.
Martin Cooper with 1st mobile handphone
The first hand-held cellphones were large, bulky and used in automobiles. They also consumed too much power to be used without the vehicle's engine running. Between 1973 and 1983, several prototypes would be made which allowed people to use phones without their vehicle. These phones came with rubber antennas, twelve keys, and without all the extras that can be found with cellphones today.
MOBILE HANDPHONE TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION
Cellphones of today have the ability to record and play video, surf the Internet, load photos to social networking websites, and the ability to easily store contact information. The most significant advancement in cellphones is the improvement of the networks. Initially the first cellphones started as 1G networks. Today, cellphones run using a 4G network.
Samsung 4G
MOBILE HANDPHONE TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION
Samsung 4G
Cellphones Today
As previously mentioned, the first cellphones started by using a 1G analog network. They advanced to 2G digital networks, and in 2001, the 3G network gave cellphones the ability to support mult-media such as internet access, text messaging and sharing videos and photos. Cellphones have come a long way in today's world. Now you can use your smartphone to scan barcodes. A person installs a compatible scanner on the phone. They can then use the camera to read the encoded information. People love things that make life easier. This desire will encourage cellphone manufacturers to continue to improve upon cellphone technology.
Resources: http://www.qrreaders.net/articles/history-cellphone-technology.html
Iphone 3G
