Technology, The Fuel in the Mobile Industry

Technology has been improving the mobile industry and one out of every three persons own a mobile phone to call, chat, send messages, take pictures and surf the internet, take pictures and even do programing. At a point in time in the history of man, mobile communication was seen as impossible and other means of communication such as sending messages through birds and human messengers were common. Today, it looks as if a lot of people cannot live without a mobile phone while the truth is that mobiles phones weren’t existing at a particular point in time in history.

The Stone Age of Mobile Phone

Back to the 1870’s where Graham Bell and Elisha Gray invented devices that could transmit sound along electrical cable, the telephone world began. Although, the individuals registered the invention within hours to each other and this lead to legal action so as to claim right to who owns the invention which Graham won. Graham got to find out about the telephone while he was working on telegraph, he wanted to improve the telegraph and that brought about the telephone. Graham’s invention was a breakthrough in the phone world.

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Fast forward to the 1940’s, when engineers from AT&T developed cells for phone base stations. These were like radios used by taxi drivers, fire fighters and other emergency services for communication purposes. In the 1980’s, Motorola mass produces mobile phones for the rich, which was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X sold for about $4000. The phone could save 30 phone numbers, with a standby battery life of 6 hours. Motorola made a phone a luxury item for the rich and not an average person.

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The Phone Production Story and how Technology in Growing in the Mobile Industry

1985

In 1985, Motorola mass produced the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X which was analog and didn’t have enough phone memory space. The phone had a phonebook space of 30 phone numbers. It was the beginning of a new era for the phone world.

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1989

Motorola was at it again upgrading technology on the analog DynaTAC 8000X. So the Motorola MicroTac was produced. The phone was shorter and hard a better standby life.

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1992

Motorola still produced the Motorola international 3200, which was the first digital mobile phone. The phone was a GSM compatible handset but was not certified and at such was not linked to mobile network. In the same year, Nokia came with a solution for the mobile phone which increased the number of phone contact to 90 numbers, the Nokia 1011 was a GSM compatible phone and could receive and send messages and it was acceptable.

1993

IBM created the first touchscreen handheld device called IBM Simon. It was a breakthrough but had a short battery life of 1 hour.

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1996

Motorola created the Motorola StarTac which was the smallest phone and the most expensive among all phones. It could open and close the button with the head and this was another improvement to the mobile phone technology.
Nokia also produced the Nokia 8810 which was the world first mobile phone with an internal antenna and could connect to early 2G network.

1999

Blackberry came to shake the mobile phone world and RIM became the fastest growing company for 10 years. Blackberry was the beginning of another era for the mobile phone world.

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2000 - 2006

The game kept on playing itself with Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, Sharp, Siemens, LG, Samsung, and Sagem. With Siemens being the first to create a colored phone. Blackberry 6210 produced in 2003 was the first phone to have a functioning Email, Web browsing as well as messenger (Known as the BBM).

Motorola brought the flip into existence. The Motorola Razr V3 was slim and potable, it could also flip open with the help of a finger.

Nokia became king of mobile phone in developing countries with the Nokia 1100. Over 250 million phones were sold in different countries around the world. It has hit the all-time high in number of phones sold.

In 2006, the welcoming of Symbian OS phones by Nokia occurred. And this brought another shift in the world of mobile phones.

2007 (The Paradigm shift)

This year is important in the history of mobile phones as several phones started running on JAVA, at this same year iPhone came into the market with iOS. This was the beginning of a disruption in the mobile world, also phones started using WhatsApp chatting social network also, and Blackberry started shaking in the market.

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2008 – 2016

These years were fundamental to the changes in the phone industry. In 2010, just exactly 10 years after Blackberry produced its first phone, it sank deep. Nokia brought Windows OS to phones while LG, HTC, T-Mobile and Samsung started using Android OS.

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2017 till date

Mobile phones are now known as smartphones and no longer analog phones. They now possess 4G, 5G enabled network, Good cameras and amazing screens, face recognition, fingerprint biometric and other amazing advance technology that involves Artificial Intelligence like Siri, Bixby, Google assistant. Also, Samsung added Blockchain technology to their recent products.

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It is amazing the way technology is changing in the mobile phone industry, within the space of about 20 years, there have been a lot of changes in the mobile phone world. What do you think the next generation of phone will be like?

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