The purpose of this essay is to analyse the development of a technology and predict what this technology will be like in the future, and I have chosen to evaluate mobile devices. The development of mobile devices have already had a major development in the last decade and can only progress more in the next decade. In today's society it is hard to find someone that doesn't own a mobile device. The first mobile device to emerge was the mobile phone which allowed people to communicate through a wireless device which weighed just under 800 grams and cost a little less then $4,000 and today a mobile phone can weigh as little as 70 grams and cost as little as $30 from a local supermarket. Mobile devices can be used for many things like entertainment, …show more content…
The DynaTAC weighed 794 grams, cost $3,995 and had 30 minutes of talk-time. It was first released in 1984. The mobile phone was able to store 30 phone numbers that were able to be called from its led display. though this was the first mobile phone most cellular phones before then were installed in cars as they weren’t created small enough and from the DynaTAC started an evolution of new devices called the mobile telephone. As more and more mobile phones were being created, more and more features were being integrated into phones, the first personal digital assistant (also known as a PDA ) was incorporated into a mobile phone in 1993, in 1999 the first instance of a gps had been integrated into a mobile phone and in the same year a phone with mp3 capabilities emerged and from 2000 even more features had been technologies had been merged with phones like bluetooth, an fm radio, a colour screen, a camera, internet access and touch screens. These features led to many known mobile phones of today like the blackberry's, the Apple iPhone's and the Samsung's and while so many different technologies were attached to mobile phones in the 2000's, most mobile phones only had one special feature about them whether it was having bluetooth or an fm radio and now mobile phones integrate all these features on one device. With mobile devices becoming a relevant resource for education, never has it been easier for a question to be answered with millions of online resources, applications and also online peer-to-peer learning through the internet. There is now over 120,000 educational apps between both Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store which cover every aspect of education. Schools are starting to use iPad's for education. Ben Johnson (2012) uses this example to show how iPad's are transforming the
In April of 1973, a man named Martin Cooper altered the way of communication for the rest of his days and many years to come. He possessed a dream that would better the way we conversed with one another from a distance. Back in those times, the closest thing to “cellular technology” was a car phone made by the AT&A Company but, Martin and his determined Motorola group yearned higher heights and deeper depths for communication- and thus the birth of the first cell phone was in process. Cooper wanted to exceed the limitations of just simple “car conversation”. After consistent tedious hours of production, lasting a several month long period of building, critiquing, and finalizing, the first cell phone was born. The first mobile device was the size of a cinderblock and weighed the equivalence of its worth- a stack of
Dynamic changes in consumers’ needs and preferences had led to a long history of technological innovation and developments. Among these developments, mobile phone devices have had one of the fastest household adoption rates of any technology in the world’s modern history (Comer and Wikle, 2008). Since the start of the 21st century, smartphones started becoming widespread. From 2012 onwards, most of these phones began having high-speed mobile broadband 4G LTE, motion sensors, mobile payment and many more functions. As a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, smartphones have more advanced computing capability and connectivity than feature phones. As humans become increasingly reliant on technology today, most smartphone producers would
In the year 1973, the first successful demonstration of mobile phone communication was done by Dr. Martin Cooper and John Mitchell of the Motorola Company. The handset used was bulky and it weighed about one kilogram. This was still in the research stages. In 1983, the first commercially available cell phone handset was launched and it was called the DynaTAC8000x. From then on, there was a gradual growth in the development of the handsets, as well as the infrastructure used in mobile telephony. The adoption of the cell phone technology by the masses has also led to an increase in research and its expansion by the manufacturers.
Let’s start at the beginning. Next month, April 3rd, will mark the 41st anniversary of the handheld phone. Motorola’s Martin Cooper placed the world’s first mobile phone call, to his rival, Joel Engel from Bell Systems, to tell him “that the race to perfect cellular tech was over.”[1] You see mobile technology has been around since the mid 1940s. The problem was these “mobile” phones were really limited to cars because of the large briefcase sized units that they required to operate. That was until 1984/85 when someone paid four thousand dollars for the Motorola DynaTAC,...
Though mobile devices may help in some ways, its positive aspects are overshadowed by the negative impact upon families, children, and our communication skills, in addition to many other areas of our lives. Even though technology has had a positive impact in many areas of our daily lives, it should not be used lightly. The influence they have on our lives is often underestimated as we have become use to living in a technological world. In the future, we should endeavor to control technology, instead of letting it control us as it has in the lives of many.
Have you ever looked around at society and realized just how much of an impact to our daily lives that a smart phone has? In 2015 Nielsen group reported that ever four out of five phones purchase is a smart phone(www.govtech). Technology grows more with each passing day. Personal Computers range in sizes from desktops to smart phones. Among one of the smallest and newest personal computers is the smart phone which was created in 2007 (www.govtech.com). A Smart phone is a device that allows you to use it as a cell phone and a personal computer in one. This new size of a person comport also connects you to the internet and to social media. The ability of being mobile has impacted the growth of
At the outset, mobile phones were considered as valuable resources that were shared by family members and close friends, rather than as purely personal devices. As times have progressed the way mobiles are perceived has changed, they have moved from the want segment to the need segment.
...P, 2005, p 23) Around 2005 cell phones and PDAs were referred to as Swiss army knives of gadgets due to the fact they had many functions in one device. All the big phone companies at the time were premiering phones with more mp3 storage than mp3 player, essentially foreshadowing the future. (Dempsey, P, 2005, pg. 23)An average smart phone in the year 2014 can hold around 8-16 gigabytes of data, and if storage is allotted correctly, the phone can hold thousands of mp3s. Any mp3 player trying to have a foothold in the consumer market cannot compete with a device that is an essential part of an average person’s daily life, and a music player. “Smartphones with increasingly high-quality audio and video capabilities have become popular and therefore hamper demand for products in the Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing industry.” (Krabeepetcharat, T. 2013. p. 8)
At first, the cellphone found a place in the work. Or, it can be said that the work found a site to this device. Initially, the ones who had the mobile were important executives. It was a luxury. When cellphones were first introduced to the public, they were bulky, expensive, and some even required a base unit that had to be transported along with the phone (Castells, 2004). For example, it was so common having a cellphone for being update of the stock market or to make business. In the movie ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ the dad is about to make a deal with his boss, so he needs a cellphone to entered in his mail and communicated. It has become a tool that even the president Obama sends mails from his blackberry (New York Times, 2009).
When phones became available to the public they were not considered to be mobile in today’s sense of the word. They were available to have installed in an automobile, they were big and bulky, and they needed and consumed a lot of power to use. The phone networks would only support a few simultaneous conversations. Cell phones since then have made vast improvements in their efficiency, abilities, and size. The first handheld mobile phone wasn’t produce until 1973. The origin...
According to Reed (2010), smartphones were first brought to the attention of the public in 1993 by IBM and BellSouth. When the first smartphone was produced, it was called "Simon". Even though the technology was nowhere near what it is today, "Simon" utilized a touch screen and was able send faxes and access e-mail. The use of the touch screen foreshadowed what would come 14 years later, the iPhone. The next smartphone to be invented was the Nokia 9110 Communicator in 1998. This phone resembled the look of toda...
In the United States, using a smartphone or tablet has been an unstoppable trend. According to the report from Pew Internet, in the United States, 56% of all adult population is smartphone user, 35% have cellphone, which is not a smartphone, and only 9% do not own any cell phone (Smith). At the same time, the tablet computer has been growing substantially since 2010, especially with the advent of Windows 8. Pew Internet shows that 34% of the United States adult population owns a tablet computer, representing a growth of more than 30% in three years (Zickuhr). Although these reports were based on the adult population, many children their own mobile devices. Such a device will provide them the accessibility to browse the Internet, listen to music, watch videos, play games both instantly and with unlimited quantity.
Mobile technology has come a long way in the last quarter of the century. In the 1980s, mobile phones could only be used for phone calls. Since then, the development of new electronic communications services led to the widespread use of mobile phones. According to a recent survey in...
The world today is a result of centuries of evolution; one of the major adaptations is technology, specifically the invention of the smartphone. The smartphone is a cellular phone that has the capabilities of performing similar functions to that of a computer (Oxford Dictionaries’ online dictionary, n.d.). The smartphone is owned by youth for the most part; however, adults and seniors are also turning toward using this device. This in turn demonstrates the popularity of this marvelous device, and is the reason why it is constantly monitored by its users. The continuous evolving of the populations' wants and needs such as communication, searching of information, entertainment and recording, makes owning a smartphone essential, and beneficial as it is portable, reliable and efficient.
Have you ever asked yourself, what the world would be like if there weren’t any mobile applications. Society is impacted by the new development in technology daily. Someone is always claiming that their inventions will revolutionize the world, but no invention has had more success over the years, in the cellular world than mobile applications. People all around the world use millions to billions of applications daily for personal and business uses. For example, social networking which is use by all generations of people. It has an influence the way we purchase cell phones, in order to have the capability. With the creation of different smartphones and tablets, comes the demand for more mobile applications. This causes competition among application builders. Mobile applications are designed to its user making their experience less complicated. Mobile applications have their advantages and disadvantages, depending on its design and designer. They can be created to be very simple or complex, depending on its intended function. Has society benefited from the usages of mobile applications or is it just a distraction. What impact do mobile applications have on society.