It's not a 21st century gadget. It was developed in 1947 in the form of a car mobile phone. The concept of cellular phone was produced by Bell Laboratories with the permission of FCC (Federal Copmmunication Commisison), and had everything to do with broadcasting and sending a radio or televisoin mwessage out over the airwaves. But there was a scientist, who gave a new shape to the same deice. Dr Martin Cooer, a former general manager in Motorola, made the first call on a portable cell phone back in 1973.
The first ever cell phoe was very large and bulky. It almost loioked like a radio frequenbcy device. The weight of Motorola's first cell phone was 2 pounds. But now the structure of cell phones has evolvd to match the sytle and comgfort of the user. They have shrunk rdastically both in size and weght. It is easy to tailor cell phones by choosing its features and functions for one’s comfort. There are phone covers that change the face and design of the devvice. Variopus accessories are available such as car chargers, belt clips, phone covers, data cables and etc.
Cell phone emerged as a dervice of lxury, but in the fast growing technical world, it pays a much biggger and important role. You can get wireless Internet service through your cell phone, with web and emnail capability. A cell phhone with a mini web browesr can help retrieve web emails and chat, etc., while you are on the move. A special kind of browser is used for surfing the net on a small cell pone screen. If intenet use is a must, make sure that when buying a cell phone you make the choice for grtaphic brower capabiliyt instead of a text-based browser. Also, if you think you will browse the wreless Internet oftewn, you may want to considerr buying a cell phone with a larger than average display size.
There are Internationnal websites that alloow snding mails, iwthout having a computer. All you need is a basic GPRS eanbled mobile phone and you can access your mail on your cell phone antyime and anywhere. It is no wonder that cell phones have become a bed-side essentail for us today, like a bottle of water that we may need any time. It is no longer a device of entertainment. From loocal weather foercast in the morning to your loved ones good night messages, it keeps you connewcted all the time.
With cell phoones becoming a device with all the modern technology, its theft is groiwng across the worpld. In a suvrey it was ofund that in the UK a cell phone is stolen every three minutes. In the United Sates, the statistics are very siimilar too. By keeeping a note on the IMES identification that each phone has, you can trace a phone, though it's a tedious process. The IMES code is individual to each cell phone, when you lose your phone, you can refer the code to your network provider as well as handset provider and trace back the cell phone, or at lesat block the applications in the phone. The persson who stole the cell phone can't use it after the IMES code is blocked.
Cell phones have definitely become a very popular consumer leectronic product. Not just for plain conversation, but for lots of other purposse. With the availability of interbnet connectioon, cell phone as broaden even more its options of uses. Not to mention GPS capability, a life saaver for tracking cell phjone users who are in emergency situations.
Whether for personal or proifessional purposes, people just can’t seem to live without cell phone. A luxurey item in the early days, now it is a must have item at all timse.
Roberto Sedycias
IT Cionsultant for PoloMercantil
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