Mobile Phones - Then and Now!The mobile phones are no more those bulky and ugly looking devices that you carried around because your job expected you to. They have gone through various cycles of refinements. The size has shrunk. The use has expanded. What started out more as offsite walkie-talkie devices have traveled right into our personal lives. Today, the mobile phones have become an absolute necessity. Millions of units of mobile phones are being sold by the likes of Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple, and Research in Motion. And modern mobile phones look anything but dummy.
The early mobile phones just supported voice over wireless networks and the world was happy to have discovered something that did not require wires. A wireless handheld device that you could keep in your purse and go about your daily activity and still be connected with family and friends. We called it a mobile phone! A revolution in communication. No one at that time imagined how much impact that small device could have on our daily lives.
Today, the mobile phones have become smarter. We use them for more than just talking. Apart from sending and receiving SMS, MMS, and Email, we play Music, Videos, and games on a mobile phone. Most mobile phones today come with digital cameras. 5 mega pixel camera in a mobile phone is becoming a norm. Some latest mobile phones are offering even 8 mega pixel cameras. The cramped keypads that are hard to use for long typing have been replaced by ultra sensitive and highly responsive pixel perfect touch screen. The qwerty keyboards have arrived and established their presence on the mobile ramp. The slimness and the style is in. Edges of a mobile phone are getting curvy, screen larger and brigher, and input modes more innovative.
But what's most exciting about today's mobile phones is that you can program them just like laptops and computer desktops. They have got operating system, memory, and processor so they have evolved into more of mini mobile computers - wiping the PDAs out. You can install a range of software applications to make your mobile do much more than the features it comes with.
What exactly is a smartphone? A smartphone combines the capabilities of both a mobile phone and a computer in a single handheld device. A smartphone is different than a computer as, unlike a computer, it can be used for regular telephonic communication. What makes it smarter than a traditional mobile phone is that it comes with local storage, operating system, and advanced processor. These characterists of a smartphone make it programmable just like computers and that expands it capabilities way beyond a traditional mobile phone. You can store data on smartphones and retrieve it at will. You can install new software applications and utilities. You can use the phone for hosts of other things like Email, Chat, and Web Surfing. If you are a software engineer you could write your own custom applications. The Oxford American Dictionary defines a smartphone as a mobile phone that incorporates the capabilities of a PDA (personal digital assistant). Therefore a smartphone can be termed as a converged device that can perform multiple functions. The smartphones have redefined what a mobile handset can do. From the very first generation (1G) dumb terminals that just offered wireless voice communication to modern 3G phones that support audio/video streaming along with the data communication, mobile phones have come a long way.
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