The Necessity of Cell Phones

The Necessity of Cell Phones

As I walked thought the Eaton’s Center in downtown Toronto, I was

astonished at the number of people I saw with cell phones. Talking on

them, taking pictures with and even using the internet via their cells

to instant message their friends. Cell phones have only recently

become part of a status symbol or symbol of “cool” that is sweeping

North American and the world alike.

Cell phones fit perfectly into the four characteristics of pop

culture. They are one of the most popular commercial electronic

products today; this is mainly due to the pressures of advertising as

well their easy of use and comfort and safety that they provide to

consumers. They have moved very quickly from local to national and to

global acceptance. This is due to that fact that they use the same

principle of use as a land line phones and therefore people of all

ages who are familiar which the system now carry cell phones to keep

in touch. It also seems that lately the mall is overcrowded with cell

phone stores and booths selling countless phones, plans and

accessories which have now made them very easy to get your hands on.

You almost feel out of the crowed if you are without one. And lastly

they are constantly changing and evolving to meet the fads and trends

that are emerging in the business. Companies seem to have thought of

everything from calculators to web access… it’s amazing what modern

cell phones can do.

The principles of cellular telephones were worked out at Bell Labs in

the 1940s; however building such systems had to await the arrival of

integrated circuits and other microelectronic components in the 1970s.

In the United States, hundreds of companies saw the promise of the

business, but government regulators were very slow in making a

sufficiently “broad band” of frequencies available, delaying

deployment considerably. As a result, Japan and the Scandinavian

countries created the first cellular systems and have since remained

leaders in the technology.