A Look at Mobile Phones
Mobile phones first hit the commercial market in the UK in 1985. The devices have had more of a lasting and significant impact on our lives than most other items of technology in recent years, and it is now difficult for many of us to appreciate what life was like before the smart phone came along. Downloading apps, surfing the web, sending text messages, playing music and sending emails whilst on the move has become an essential part of the daily round.
In the mid-eighties a mobile phone did what it said on the tin, and allowed exclusively for making phone calls whilst the user was outside, but it has since developed into a comprehensive communications and entertainment system.
Companies such as Motorola have been largely responsible for this quantum leap from humble beginnings. They originally created the walkie-talkie, leading to the development of in-car telephones and the radio pager, which was a precursor to modern text messaging.
The mobile phone was the next step in this evolutionary tree of communications technology. Cellnet and Vodaphone provided the first UK cellular networks in January of 1985. The handsets themselves were about the size of a shoebox and were unwieldy to say the least, needing two hands to hold, and the technology was analogue. Despite these drawbacks, the mobile phone was clearly here to stay, as its exponential proliferation and refined developments have proved.
Subsequent Telepoint services were short-lived, because the range of mobile phones was limited, and it wasn’t until the so-called second-generation digital technology came along in the early nineties that the future of mobile phones looked certain, taking off commercially with the general public.
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