The future of mobile phones | Pim Rattanathuawat (9A)

ST. ANDREWS
THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATION
AL SCHOOL
COMMUNICATION
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION Page 2

HISTORY OF MOBILE PHONE Page 3

TIMELINE Page 4

TODAY’S ABILITY Page 5

WHO OWN THE FUTURE? Page 6

WHAT’S NEXT? Page 7

CONCLUSION Page 8

REFERENCES Page 9

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Introduction
I am pretty sure that any of you know well about cell phone, well at least I’m you know how to use it
but do you know it hardly enough? In this essay I will tell you everything about it. Including the war of
the most popular phone and technology companies, what’s bad and good about it? Can it make your
grade climbing up or sliding down? Where it come from? Who made it up? And why?

Let just getting an idea of what it is. Firstly cell phone or sometime know as mobile phones or wireless
phone even, are hand-held object with built-in antennas. Unlike home phones, cell phones can be
carried from place to place with a minimum of fuss. i This is why cell phone grows so quickly. When
you can carry it to any place makes them a good choice for people who want to keep in touch with
their friend and family, all the time not just in the house.

This is a starting of what you will know from this essay and not many people know this, but cell
phones are actually two-way radios. When you talk into your cell phone receiver, it registers your
voice and converts the sound into radio waves. These waves travel through the air until they reach a
receiver, which is usually found at a base station. This station will then send your call through a
telephone network until it contacts the person you wish to speak with. Likewise, when you get a phone
call, the signal will travel to the nearest station. Then the station will send the radio waves to the
neighbouring areas. These waves will then picked up by your cell phone and transformed into the
human voice.

All through it isn’t just going to be about cell phone. There are loads of thing that I am going to talk
about starting from the next page. You will know many more about this carrying wireless object while
you read. Not just about it but including everything around it and you, the user...

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History of Mobile Phone
A mobile phone (also called mobile, cellular telephone, or cell phone) is an electronic device used to
make mobile telephone calls across a wide geographic area. Mobile phones are different from
cordless telephones, which only offer telephone service within a limited range of a fixed land line, for
example within a home or an office.ii

Actually cell phone is a wireless object that human these days communicates with. It not so long ago
that mobile Phone had become popular in the way that more than three quarterof the population
around the world including the little kids now have their own mobile phone which is very unnecessary.
In 1843 an Englishchemist and physicistname Michael Faraday studied to see if space could conduct
electricity. This manfound outthe main fact that will lead us to the next cell phone development. In the
year of 1865 Doctor Mahlon Loomis was the first person to communicate through wireless
atmosphere; he was an early wireless telegraph experimenter. He came up with an idea of
transferring and receiving messages through atmosphere as a conductor.

In 1973 martin copper came up with Motorola. He took the project and let the people of New York see
it. In 1977 the first cell phone was made in Chicago. When it first came out 2000 people was given a
free trial. Then other places started to make cell phones. When to cell phone first came out they were
huge. The people did not know how to make the phone any more compact. In 1988 the big company's
started to make cell phones. There were over 54 places all over the world. iii

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 TIME LINE
1906

1906Fessenden demonstrates a
1908First US Patent for a Wireless wireless radio telephone

1926Berlin-Hamburg
1945Zero Generation (0G) of mobile

1947Cells for mobile

1973First call on
Handheld Mobile phone
1979First Commercial Cellular Network

1982Nokia’s First Mobile Phone

1984Bell Labs invent “Call

1990Introduction of 2G
Technology, First Digital Cell Phone 1993Pre-iPhone Introduction,
Introduction of Text

1995First Commercial Text Messaging

1996The Introduction of Cell Phone Fashion

1998Introduction of Bluetooth Technology

and Wedb Integration to Cell Phones
1999Introduction of the Blackberry

2000Introduction of Smart Phone,

3G and standard Standardization
2001Combining the PDA with the Cell phone

2002Swivel Fashion – Intro of IT Phone and Cell

2004Cell Phone Recycling Act

2005The Music Cell Phone

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 2005

Today’s ability
Today ability is already over what we would expect in a past few years. If you look back, you won’t be
able to imagine what we have got now. The First Generation mobile phone from the previous
generation was the use of multiple cell sites, and the ability to transfer calls from one site to the next
as the user travelled between cells during a conversation. iv That is the only ability that we have had.
However from now until then which is only about 25 years. People could develop a most common
object from no application at all to millions of thing we could do in one cell phone.

Take a look at where cell phone technology is heading in the far and no-too-far future. vToday
your cell phone already been able to take and send picture, even video. You can download
application such as games and music file. Some smart mobile can use internet browser and many
more application such as note pad, calculator, clock, stopwatch, etc. These things make mobile phone
replace many other useful objects that we have been use in our everyday life.

Today Cell Phone Companies are racing each other on who get the design of a smaller and thinner
phone. This might be a reason for losing your phone or forget one in your pocket and send it to wash.
Not very good is it? But there are reasons for that:

 cell phone technology moved from analog to digital in the 1990s;

 battery technology;
 circuit boards continue to get smaller; an
 Antenna technology continues to improve, particularly with the introduction of ceramic
antenna technology.vi

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Who own the future?
The Three biggest companies right now: Apple, Google and Microsoft

http://www.pcworld.com/article/189963/apple_vs_google_vs_microsoft_who_will_win.html

http://agilescout.com/apple-google-or-microsoft-which-does-agile-better/

http://www.better-trades.com/analyst-exchange/tech-comparisons/google-vs-apple-vs-microsoft.asp

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What’s next?
What’s coming up? How is it interesting? Why?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-future-of-smartphones-2010-2015-and-beyond/

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CONCLUTION
(Improve of damage?)
P1: Summary of overall: what I have talked about

P2 & P3: answer the question in the introduction

Improve:

http://www.cell-phone-plans.net/blog/cell-phones/texting-via-cell-phone-can-improve-spelling-ability-in-kids/

Damage:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/mobile-phones-damage-our-
ability-to-learn-603763

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REFERENCE
RESEARCH WEBSITE:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/126854/the_future_of_cell_phones.html

http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-future-of-cell-phones/

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00047/historycell.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

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i
http://ezinearticles.com/?An-Introduction-to-Cell-Phones&id=318143

ii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone

iii
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00047/historycell.htm

iv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

v
http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-future-of-cell-phones/

vi
http://www.micromanufacturing.com/showthread.php?t=558