Aug 5, 2016

Mobile History

Today,
each person having a mobile phone & now its become a part of our daily routine.
Lets take a round to know about the mobile phone:

mobile phone also known as a cellular phonecell phone, and a hand phone.

It is a device 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.

In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as:
  • Text messaging,
  • MMS,
  • E-mail,
  • Internet access,
  • short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth),
  • Business applications,
  • Gaming and
  • Photography.
Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones.

The first hand-held cell phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 2.2 pounds (1 kg).

In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first to be commercially available.
From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 6 billion, penetrating about 87% of the global population and reaching the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Early predecessors of cellular phones included analog radio communications from ships and trains.
The race to create truly portable telephone devices began after World War II, with developments taking place in many countries.
The advances in mobile telephony have been traced in successive generations from the early "0G" (zeroth generation) services like the Bell System's Mobile Telephone Service and its successor, Improved Mobile Telephone Service.
These "0G" systems were not cellular, supported few simultaneous calls, and were very expensive.
The first handheld mobile cell phone was demonstrated by Motorola in 1973.
The first commercial automated cellular network was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979.
In 1981, this was followed by the simultaneous launch of the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Several other countries then followed in the early to mid-1980s. These first generatiion ("1G") systems could support far more simultaneous calls, but still used analog technology.
In 1991, the second generation (2G) digital cellular technology was launched in Finland by Radiolinja on the GSM standard, which sparked competition in the sector, as the new operators challenged the incumbent 1G network operators.
Ten years later, in 2001, the third generation (3G) was launched in Japan by NTT DoCoMo on the WCDMA standard.
This was followed by 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G enhancements based on the high-speed packet access (HSPA) family, allowing UMTS networks to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity.
Ref- Wikipedia

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