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The first cell phone was developed by an entire team who and Mr. Cooper made this first cell phone call to his rival at AT&T in 1973. There were radio car phones that had wires at the time the first cell phone was invented. One would be able to use the one main antenna with up to 25 channels in the city. Cell phones get their name from cities being divided into small cells and each cell is connected to a satellite, which provides the network to use the service (4). Compared to the radio phones from before, cell phones allow millions to use their phones simultaneously. The first cell phone was called Motorola DynaTAC. The handset weighed 2.2 pounds and had 35 minutes of talk time. Cooper has said, "The battery lifetime was 20 minutes, but that wasn't really a big problem because you couldn't hold that phone up for that long." (5) By 1983 and after four repetitions, Cooper's team had reduced the handsets weight by half. The price of the cell phone was around $3,995 (2014: $15,000). The most a cell phone cost today at retail price is $900 and the phone can be your computer as well as your phone (6). Whereas, the first phone was used mostly for business purposes, today smartphones or basic phones are used for personal and business. They are slimmer and weigh much less than before. The people who could afford the cell phone in the beginning got one, unlike today where you can buy cell phones for $20 and just put money on them to use the cell phone daily or monthly. This is how cell phones in India work; daily or monthly unless you are from a wealthier family and can afford smart phones along with smart phone plans. A brief history of India and cell phones started on July, 10, 1937 (7). This was the year that the first official pho... ... middle of paper ... ...ntrepreneur from Bangalore by the name of Varun Nand Chaha who purchased a 3G ready cell phone in 2007. However, his phone did not work because India did not have 3G capabilities in 2007. India received their 3G services in 2011 (9). Folks in India were amazed by the speed they could check the score for the Indian cricket team. However, they would be more astonished in 2012; the fastest internet on the market reached India in the form of 4G LTE (9). Phones such as the Samsung Note 3 or Samsung Galaxy S4 had made their debut in India in 2013. These phones had 13 megapixel cameras as well as 4G LTE internet. It takes about 3-5 seconds for the internet to load as soon as you click on a browser. How far India came in about 20 years, from having cell phones that uses one tower in Mumbai to having multiple towers that can are used in cities to now having 4G LTE internet.

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