History of the Integration of Mobile Phones
History of the Mobile Phone
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In 1970 Amos Joel of Bell Labs invented "call handoff" that allowed a
mobile phone user to travel through several cells during the same
conversation
Martin Cooper of Motorola is widely considered to be the inventor of the
first practical mobile phone for handheld use in a non-vehicle setting
Using a modern, if somewhat heavy portable handset, Cooper made the
first call on a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973
Fully automatic cellular networks were first introduced in the early to
mid-1980s (the 1G generation)
Until the late 1980s, most mobile phones were too large to be carried in a
jacket pocket, so they were usually permanently installed in vehicles as
car phones
SMS (Short Message System)
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SMS was being considered as a feature for mobile phones as early
as 1985
The first commercial text message wasn't sent until 1992 from a
personal computer to a mobile phone
The first phone to phone SMS was claimed to have been sent by
Riku Pihkonen, an engineering student at Nokia, in 1993.
Initial growth was slow, with customers in 1995 sending on average
only 0.4 messages per GSM customer per month
A whole new alphabet emerged because SMS messages took a long
time to enter and were quite abrupt as people attempted to say as
much as possible with as few keystrokes. Abbreviations such as 'C
U L8er' for 'See you later' sprung up for time saving and trendiness
Ringtones
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It all more or less started with the famous 'Nokia Tune', which is a
13 note rendering of Francisco Tarrega's masterpiece, Gran Vals.
Tarrega was a 19th-century Spanish musician.
Around this time all ringtones were monoponic, meaning they could
only play one note at a time.
One of the first commercial ringtone service available was the
finnish operator, Radiolinja´s "jukebox" service in 1999.
The year 2002 is a major milestone in ringtone history. Nokia and
other phone companies adopted the MIDI standard that enabled
richer and more realistic polyphonic sounds, which is multiple notes
being played at one time.
Modern mobile phones can play MP3 files and have higher quality
ringtones than ever before.
Camera Phone
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A camera phone is a mobile phone which has a camera built-in and
allows the user to share pictures and video with anyone instantly.
The first complete camera phone was built by Philippe Kahn in
1997. The first commercial camera phone complete with
infrastructure was the J-SH04, made by Sharp Corporation with the
Sha-Mail (Picture-Mail in Japanese) infrastructure and marketed by
J-Phone in Japan. In North America, the first camera phone was
manufactured by Sanyo and launched by Sprint with the
PictureMail infrastructure.
Camera phones have become widely used because they are cheap,
convenient, and portable, and are now a staple of the majority of
cell phones.
Bluetooth
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1998 The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is formed and
officially adopts the project name “Bluetooth” as the name of the
technology
1999 The Bluetooth 1.0 is released
2000 The first Bluetooth consumer product hits the market - a
Bluetooth headset and phone adapter from Ericsson
Bluetooth wireless technology is a short-range communications
technology intended to replace the cables connecting portable
and/or fixed devices
Bluetooth enables user to have an affordable and easy way to have a
hands free experience when using mobile phones.
Digital Media Player
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Many phones today have built in flash memory
drives allowing them to store up to 4GB of music,
movies, and media.
This combines the features of an MP3 and movie
player with the features of a mobile phone.
Internet Device
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Mobile phones now have an integrated web
browser, and html e-mail client.
This technology allows your mobile phone to act
as a home PC in the palm of your hand. Allowing
you to stay connected with Yahoo and Google
searches, download e-mail, check the weather, and
sync bookmarks from your home PC.
Miscellaneous Features
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Calculator
Clock
Calendar
Phone Book
Maps
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The constantly upgraded and newly added
integration of all these features onto a single
device is an intuitive and efficient way for
consumers to be in constant control of all their
media needs
Instead of owning, and paying for several different
devices which all perform separate actions, this
integration bundles everything the modern
consumer needs into one all inclusive package
Works Cited
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_3_64/ai_109568880
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_features
http://wataniya.yahoo.com/smshistory.html