COMMUNICATION INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER

MOBILE PHONE

“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.” Alfred North Whitehead

First Generation Cell Phones

In 1983, Motorola unveiled the first truly portable cellular phone to the world.

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

Second Generation Cellular Phones

Phones based on 2G technology were much smaller than the brick telephones of the mid to late 80s

Third Generation cellular phones

3G mobile phones usually include innovations to receive much more than phone calls

Fourth Generation – 4G – technology.

used in the next generation of electronic book readers, Incar computer navigation systems and possibly even netbooks which are the fastest growing area of growth in the home computer market

G1 from T-Mobile

the new player is Google who make the Android operating system available and the first phone to appear is the G1 from T-Mobile

Today's mobile phones are small enough to slip in to your pocket but also powerful enough to surf the internet, send emails and even make video calls

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