Monday, January 7, 2013

Cell phones: How they came into existence?

By David Bridger


Cell phones have changed the way in which we live, and for any person a world without cell phone technology is not even possible. But all the today's advancement didn't occur in simply a decade. Cell phones, like us have been developed over a considerable time.

Older telephones didn't permit us to surf the Internet or to go to online portal, watch flicks online, do web shopping and all. They even didn't permit us to talk hassle readily. In this piece, we will take a look on the interesting journey of cell phones, and how they became so smart. So here you go: Pre-standardization or '0G ' phone services:

It may be said that this was a pre-standardization of cell phones, a time when cell phones were firstly built. AT&T was one of the first carriers to exploit commercially mobile phone in 1947. It was named as Mobile Phone Service (MTS) for that time. It spread to more than hundred towns. Mobile phones had a half-duplex press-to-speak system where a user had to leave the button for listening and press for talking. Phones were also not transportable. Later 1in 1965, the company introduced IMTS in The USA which grew to 40000 subscribers countrywide.

In 1960, world's first fully automated mobile phone was introduced in Sweden. System permitted the use of a circular dialing knob for communication, which was fitted inside an auto. It was named as MTA. In 1959, a company was born which is known as Motorola today, and Dr. Martin Cooper, a researcher from the company, was the first individual to make a telephone call from hand held mobile phone on April 3, 1973.

Analogue cellular networks or '1G': It was actually the first generation of mobile networks and it is the model we use today. The first cellular network using multiple tower sites was developed in 1977 in Chicago. Developed by AT&T, it took 11 years to get FCC approval and more for going in the market. Another Japanese company NTT followed the trend and introduced similar network. It became the first of its kind to cover the whole country and changed its name to NMT in 1981. It spread extremely quickly in many other states also , and was the first to introduce international rambling.

Digital cellular network or '2G': Later in 1990s, mobile devices became lighter and smaller. GSM and CDMA standards were introduced in this era. SMS messaging happened, and first SMS got sent in 1992 in UK, thru a computer. After one year, first individual to person call was made in Finland using this network. Web surfing on mobile devices and downloading also were born in this era, and this technology is still in function.

Mobile broadband or '3G': In 2001, NTT Docomo introduced 3G. Many nations followed the trend and shortly it became widely changed. Use of this technology made things like Live TV and lightening fast online video streaming possible for mobile devices.

Native IP or '4G': No official standard exist for 4G, still many hand-held devices claim to support this technology and firms like LTE and Run also offer this technology. The major advancement is video streaming and Live TV, which is a lot quicker than 3G. Still because this standard is in a development phase, it doesn't even exist in some states like Australia.

Covering this interesting journey of cell phones in 700+ words is not very easy. Still I have tried to cover each and every critical side of this revolution. I am hoping you liked it. For lots of users, this revolution is very important, and for those who do not think it is fascinating, should switch to 2G networks and use them for watching YouTube videos. I believe that can change their minds.




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