Thursday 8 November 2012

How did our old cell phones look like?

By David Bridger


Cell phones have changed the way in which we live, and for any of us a world without cellular telephone technology isn't even imaginable. But all of the today's advancement did not happen in simply a decade. Cell phones, like us have been developed over a while.

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 allow us to talk trouble unreservedly. In this post, we are going to take a look on the engaging journey of cell phones, and how they became so smart. So here you go: Pre-standardization or '0G ' fone services:

It can be said it was a pre-standardization of cell phones, an era when cell phones were first built. AT&T was one of the first carriers to commercialize mobile telephone in 1947. It was named as Mobile Telefone Service (MTS) for that time. It spread to above hundred cities. 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 across the nation.

In 1960, world's first absolutely automated mobile telephone was introduced in Sweden. System allowed the use of a circular dialing knob for communication, which was fitted inside a car. It was named as MTA. In 1959, a company was born which is sometimes known as Motorola today, and Doctor. 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 the first generation of mobile networks and it's 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 entire country and changed its name to NMT in 1981. It spread extremely quickly in numerous other nations too , and was first to introduce international rambling.

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

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

Native IP or '4G': No official standard exist for 4G, still many handheld products claim to support this technology and corporations like LTE and Sprint also offer this technology. The major advancement is video streaming and Live TV, which is a lot faster than 3G. Still because this standard is in a development phase, it does not even exist in some states like Australia.

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




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