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History and Uses of Mobile Phones

Mobile phones originated in the 1940s, and although they were not actually phones, they were actually the beginning of communication. The first form of such communication was two-way radio, which allowed people like emergency services and taxi drivers to talk to each other. On April 3, 1973, Motorola was the first company to mass-produce the first hand-held mobile phone. It was called the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X and sold for £2639. Of course, other types of telephony communication equipment were introduced to the market before this. For example, in the whole world in 1946, the first call was made on a car radio telephone in the city of Chicago (United States). Technology was growing but still, the first SMS message was sent in the UK by Neil Papworth in 1992. Neil was developing a text messaging product for Vodafone. The message was for Vodafone director Richard Jarvis and wished him a “Merry Christmas”. Later that year in 1999, Shigetaka Kurita invented emoji in Japan and Pay & Go phones were being sold at discounted prices in UK supermarkets.

The BlackBerry was also marketed that same year and was going to make sending email much easier, so it was highly regarded as a business device. It took another year for camera phones to emerge in Japan, although only there; The first was the Sharp J-SH04. Mobile Internet heralded the era of Internet in cell phones, and it arrived with the 3G standard throughout the world in 2003. Europe had to wait until 2002 for a camera phone: the Nokia 6750. We note that the first iPhone was released in 2007 for $499, while a year later, in 2008, the world hosted the first version of Android, but already in 2009 was invented called WhatsApp, which allows sending messages and was allowed to use the Internet for receiving as well as making calls; It is now fifty percent more popular than traditional texting. Our mobile phones today have long since become a device that does everything but when they were first invented, they were invented to talk.

Features like voicemail were introduced slowly, although Martin Cooper first thought of voicemail in 1988, and phones were soon used for another new style of communication: email. However, our use of mobile phones now is quite different from when people started receiving calls. More web surfing, taking pictures and checking social media instead of calling someone. In other words, this does not mean that we are not communicating with each other, but rather that the nature of communication has evolved with the number of phones used. And we use mobile phones so much that they have already replaced other gadgets like cameras or video recorders. And, of course, we can’t forget the fact that the size of our phones has also changed dramatically, because, mind you, the car phone was as big and heavy as a computer. However, over the past few years, we’ve started to see a trend of making them bigger and smaller, so there’s room for bigger screens and fewer buttons. Remember, mobiles used to have keyboards and they were not touch screens.

Of course, it is one of the best means through which one can reach out and communicate with others, but we must not forget that we must use it wisely.

And if that is not enough, the first important thing that we must remember is that phones are very precious and expensive and hence can be stolen. Keeping this in mind, we should keep our phone in a safe place and never misplace it. We also get internet through our phones, which is good for getting information very quickly. Of course, we should be cautious about researching things and only look for good websites for appropriate age groups and not open links that may pose a threat, have viruses on the phone, etc. But like when we get sick, a virus makes your phone also sick and useless. We can now also use social media on our phones, and while this is another great way to keep in touch and be updated on the news of our friends, we must be careful with who we communicate with and what content we consume. When you share, don’t share anything you might regret later. It also reminded us that our phones are great devices but are only useful to us when used safely.

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