History of the Integration of Mobile Phones

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History of the Integration of Mobile Phones
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History of the Mobile Phone

• 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

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SMS (Short Message System)

• 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

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Ringtones

• 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, Radiolinjas
  "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.

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Camera Phone

• 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.

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Bluetooth

• 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.

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Digital Media Player

• 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.

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Internet Device

• 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.

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Miscellaneous Features

• 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

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Works Cited

• 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