The History Of Mobile Phones

By Author: DANA BATES
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It is almost strange to imagine that mobile phones hasn't been a part of daily life forever, considering the vital role it plays nowadays. But fact is, as scientist's like to point out, with the existence of the earth laid out over a year, homo sapiens has only been a species for a quarter to midnight the last of December, and the explosion of industry and technology has taken place during the last sixty seconds. Considering that, maybe the portable gadget that we have all grown so fond of has only been with us a mere 4 seconds. CELLULAR TECHNOLOGY
Stabs were taken at evolving a mobile telephone service as early as in the 1940's, but it was not until the invention of cellular technology that the elaborate schemes were showing signs of becoming and economically feasible operation. THE FIRST CALLER
It took ten years of blood, sweat and tears to lay the ground work for the world's first telephone call to see the light of day. Or rather, to penetrate the air ways, and the historic call was placed from an installation in an automobile. The early commercialized efforts were ...
... made in the late 40's, but with only three air corridors open at a time it was a crowded business, despite the shy numbers in total paying customers, weighing in on a mere 5,000 rich technology freaks with enough money to spend. A monthly subscription back then were bound to set you back the equivalent of roughly 176 dollars in today's value, and a quick chat with a loved one could hardly involve any deeper explanations of affection as a single call would cost you five bucks a minute. A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
The first real improvements in this business still in the cradle, were taken in 1965, as more air-channels opened up and at least made way for adjusting the total number of simultaneous calls slightly upwards. THE FIRST HANDHELD
The "mobile" phones was rather immobile as their use was confined to cars and other vehicles but in 1973 the introduction of the first handheld was tampered with. The length of its battery-time extended to no more than thirty minutes with a recharge time of over ten hours. THE SECOND GENERATION
In the 1990's we started to close in on the technology of today, as the second generation of handheld phones were introduced. We all remember those, big logs the size of Vietnam war communication radios, hooked on to a special holster at your hip it was still the hippest thing you could swing in those days. THE SMALL COMPUTER
And now, we keep the world neatly stored in these tiny devices, we don't leave home without them, we hardly leave for the bathroom without them. mobile phones are just a notch under drinking water and fresh air in terms of life quality. This article is about the history of mobile phones.

This article is about the history of mobile phones.