THE TRANSFORMATION OF MOBILE PHONE INDUSTRY

The Mobile phones undergone great changes since its birth. 1982’s  Mobira Senator model was around 9.8Kg it has transformed to just 800gm Mobira cityman 900.  Both from Nokia.  The first one  ie. Mobira Senator model was the first ever mobile phone released from Nokia. 

The first proposal for Cellular system was made at Bell Labs in 1947.  But Motorola succeeded in developing mobile phone device.  John F. Mitchell became Motorola's cheif engineer for its mobile communication products.  Mitchel oversaw the development of the mobile communication and was among first for the marketing of pagers.  Martin Cooper a member of Mitchel's team was the pioneer in developing portable cellular telephony.  Mitchel was one among the employees who got patent for developing units for this technology. 

On October 1983, D D Meilahn placed the first commercial wireless call on a DynaTAC from his car to Bob Barnett, former president of Ameritech Mobile Communications,  Barnett then placed a call on a DynaTAC from inside a Chrysler convertible to the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. 

THE TRANSFORMATION OF MOBILE PHONES

MOBILE PHONES ; THE TRANSFORMATION 

Its true that mobile phones have transformed our lives.  But what we are talking today is about how mobile phone have transformed.  

In 1973  Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher , made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment.The first analog cellular system widely deployed in North America was the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS). It was commercially introduced in the Americas in October 1983,  

You know the first Cellphone Went on Sale 30 Years Ago for $4,000 

Measuring 13 x 1.75 x 3.5 inches and weighing 28 ounces, the 8000X was so big and heavy, ven its creators had nicknamed it "The Brick." 

And its cost stood around 4000 US $

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Ref: WIKIMAPIA, Google

EVOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF MOBILE PHONES

"Nokia' was the synonym of the mobile phones.  Once (not very far back) we watched with wonder the capability of the hand set well beyond the wireless extensions of our land phones.  The "pagers" were our most advanced communication device before the mobile phones.  The important people of a company used to carry the pagers during mid 90,s.  Suddenly pagers were replaced by stout mobile phones of Nokia, Motorola and Alcatel.  Nokia unquestionably reigned the arena with the introduction new models time to time.  Its OS "Symbian" we believed very flexible and capable of handling the challenges of  telecommunication industry.  Later their OS "Meego" even started handling VOIP calls.  As the industry was on the growing phase we are least bothered about the limits of "Meego".  

This expedition of Nokia came to an end when Samsung introduced "Galaxy" smart phones with "Android" OS. We astonished by watching the versatility of the features of Android phones.  That was the starting of Smart Phone era.  Samsung by releasing different models with improved processor speed , memory , connectivity and similarly the producers of Android " Google" also rose to the occasion by relentlessly modifying the capabilities of Android and even defeated iOS in the race.


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CHOOSE THE RIGHT MOBILE PHONE

Today's mobile market is flooded with numerous models from different manufacturers.  The dilemma of selecting the right phone is always there.  

While the mobile manufacturers Samsung, HTC, Huwei, Sony, LG or Shaomi offers us mobiles with Android operating system, Apple presents its phones with iOS and  also there are other mobiles with different operating systems like Windows or Blackberry.  

So in order to select a good smart phone what qualities we would consider ?

1) Audio :-  As it is phone primarily one would consider its audio quality. What is the use if its audio is poor even the phone possesses different features?

2) Data connectivity:- Today's trend is 4G.  Manufacturers are working hard to bring the gadgets with this features. The 3G mobiles initially marketed with higher prices are now being sold with drastically slashed prices after the arrival of 4G.
3)Wi-fi : This is the era of VOIP calls , people are happy with phones giving uninterrupted connectivity with excellent signal strength. It may depends upon the quality of service provider. But the performance of the handset in the given conditions will account for its success in the market. 

Other features like Memory, Data capacity, Picture and video quality of the camera will come secondary to the above given points.

Strength and fitness of the handset in like the possession of scratch resistant screens like Gorilla Glass, metallic body etc also will come to the mind of the customer.