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Cell phone technology has been moving forward at break neck speed, and sometimes we might not notice it, but think back to just a few years ago and you appear to be able to see all the new feature integration and race in the marketplace - a race to "wow" the first place and get these phones choose a particular device. But prior to we talk concerning the current trends in cell phones and smart phones, let's discuss the past evolution of the devices.
Since, I had One of the initial mobile "cell" phones - I'd prefer to tell you a quick story to start out this discussion.
My very first cell phones were state-of-the-art in the time, but Should you saw them today, you'd laugh. One of them I in reality kept; a Mitsubishi Transportable. This phone is about the size of a six pack cooler that you might take to your child's soccer game, and it was extremely heavy, as I recall It is nicely over 10 pounds. This of course included the battery pack to power up to 3 Watt phone.
Remember that Ion-lithium batteries in the time were just coming off the assembly lines and were extremely pricey - they did not exist in this size for anything but NASA and military usage. These original cell phones I had were nickel hydride powered, very an inferior battery technology for modern cell phones.
The Mitsubishi Cell Phone has a strap on it so you'll be able to carry it being a purse, and I typically felt really stupid carrying it, until obviously it rang, and I unzipped the top, pulled out the handset on the phone and began talking. I will recall that everyone stared as if I was a secret CIA agent, was working for MI6, and my name wasn't Lance, it was very James Bond. You see, at that time not really numerous individuals had the cell phones and they were very expensive.
Another one of my very first phones was a Audiovox 1000 model, And this was really huge and it was mounted in my car, a car phone - cell phone. The box that ran the Cell Phone was mounted under the seat, and there was a cradle that held the headset. The headset had a cord on it just just like a phone at home, before the cordless phones that is. Under the seat the box was about 3 1/2 inches high and the size of a laptop using a 17.1 inch screen.
This Cell Phone or car cell phone was wired directly in to the battery with several fuses. When I turned on the vehicle, the Cell Phone would automatically turn on. If I turned off the vehicle, I had to leave it on accessory With all the significant at the right position, unless I left the phone on And also this by-passed the ignition. When the phone rang and the fact is honked the horn, And this got me into trouble a few times when the horn went off even though I was driving at the rear of a police car stopped at an intersection. I have many stories to tell you about all those early days Using the first cell phones, and you'll e-mail me if you are ever interested in such experiences.
Folks right now take all this for granted, as they do not realize how cumbersome the original cell phones were, or how stupid they were than the modern day smart cell phones. nowadays they send you a free of charge cell phone When you sign up for service - back then you had to pay $1000 to get a car cell phone, and as considerably as a couple hundred dollars to have it installed. It was quite a procedure, if you've a stereo system, and an XM radio put in your car at the same time, which is about how significantly work it took to do this. Therefore, at today's labor rates You could easily pay three or $400. that's definitely something to think about.
If I was talking to someone about the phone although the engine was running, if I turned off the car and moved the key to the accessory position I would dump the phone call, as I cut it out during that transition. However, having a cell phone in my car helped me increase my business. at the time I was only 17 years old - I had an aircraft brokerage firm and aircraft finder's service and I would work off of fees whenever an aircraft that I represented sold. I as well had a little aircraft cleaning service and was able to contact customers in one my vehicle around the flight line, and my crews can often call me when they were carried out With the job while they would Use the local payphone to call me.
Thus, this mobile technology allowed me to make much more money, and remain a lot more efficient compared to the competition. keep in mind in the time this was leading edge technology, it was state-of-the-art, and I had it - the competition did not. No longer was I stuck in an office, I can often run my company from anywhere and it allowed me considerably freedom. often folks right now do not realize what it was like just before mobile cell phones. Anyone who is in enterprise now over the age of 50 certainly realizes, because they don't forget a time when there were no cell phones.
This was a period in our nation's history where there were pay phones in every shopping center, each and every gas station, outside of every rapidly food restaurant, and men and women utilized them all the time. organization those who didn't smoke filled their ashtrays along with other coins so they can stop and Utilize the pay phone. Thus, allowing them to call clients, customers, vendors, and keep their operations at the office. When cell phones very first came into play they displaced the old Motorola technology of push to talk phones, Which worked off a mountaintop repeaters, them to were extremely large in the military, construction industry, and all of the executives along with other big corporations had them.
Since this was radio technology, they worked farther compared to the first cell phones Which had to be within 10 to 15 miles of a cell tower. Today, the cell phones seem to be less wattage compared to they were back then, therefore the average cell tower is 6 miles or less apart. Back then the cell phones worked off three Watts, and now with other 3G technology the wattage is under 1 W. This is possibly very good for the human biosystem, as It is putting much less microwave frequency radiation into your brain, there will likely be fewer brain tumors, brain cancer, and other issues. There have been multiple studies including many With all the Swiss researchers And this seemed to indicate that the 3 W phones were quite unacceptable for human health, and they would slowly cook your brain as one researcher said.
Luckily, to the cell phone market they were able to bury All of these troubles and objections, as nicely as the studies that the Swiss did. Although, there were studies here at the United States, you would be hard-pressed to consider those study studies and data on brain tumors, brain cancer, in addition to their relation into the cell phones that men and women used. In fact, In case you go to Google Scholar nowadays you will be hard-pressed to consider anything that would suggest that the cell phones can often cause such horrible conditions. This of course is all still up for debate, but we but don't talk about it.
Perhaps, by going to 3G wireless, and lower wattage the mobile cell phone business dodged a bullet of huge class-action lawsuits, and we may well never already know the harm we had caused. Nevertheless, as we talk about Six Sigma efficiency in corporations, or employing modern management ways in little businesses, no one can deny that growing communication speed and reliability is by far a factor in the increase productivity in the 80s and 90s as a result of cell phones.
At the time I was literally operating 1000 to 1200 minutes a month and though that service was significantly cheaper than the other alternatives such as the Iridium Satellite Phones, non-cell phone mobile units, as they did not use cell towers, rather satellites - you'll be able to imagine the costs of those original cells. They did not have an unlimited program and There was a time over your minutes, you paid the premium for each minute on that cell phone, my bill was usually $500 to 800 or more.
The other mobile phones in the time were not cell tower-based phones, they were push-to-talk and came in a brief case - it was considered extremely James Bond at the time. And this was back at the 1970s, and I don't forget this, due to the fact I began my company when I was 12 years old washing airplanes in the local airport. several of the businessmen who owned corporate jets had these types of phones. They were basically towards the rich and famous, and business person. They didn't work everywhere and also you had to have pretty significantly line of sight into the nearest tall mountain, and that mountain had to require a repeater on top of it, And also this was hardwired into telephone lines, and also the rest of the system worked along with other ground lines.
All This is very interesting, and we have to consider that numerous folks these days have never been alive when there were no cell phones. They have no clue how tough it was to run a organization back at the days when there very was no mobile communication. The same repeater systems on top of these mountains that Motorola owned or And this utilized Motorola hardware, too controlled the pagers. These pager systems were extremely Well-known along with other folks on call, including doctors, and service personnel. Two-way radios, Which work basically just like the two-way push to talk briefcase phones, were employed through a dispatcher for companies extremely often.
Later, just as cell phones came into play, someone came up Using the idea of 1.5 way and two-way pagers. Rather than a one-way pager, someone who had what they call an "alpha mate" device can often page someone and ask them a question (using a text message) on that page as well as the recipient could press a button for yes or no, Y. or N. and that Information would be relayed into the dispatcher. men and women actually got pretty excellent at communicating this way. and you also can often send text type messages for the user of the pager to read. in reality these were the very first text type messages, so the concept of using a mobile device and making use of text messaging is not all that new.
Two-way text messaging via cell phones is just a re-introduction of that similar technology. There was a time men and women had cell phones they didn't have to Make access to the text pagers anymore, and that technology was leapfrogged as the price of these cell phone services was lower, as competition increased between companies like Sprint and AT&T. There were multiple other regional smaller players, however they Ultimately got bought up by the large boys.
The cell phone business grew so rapidly in the late 80s and early 90s, that Eventually there was coverage everywhere. Then some thing extremely weird happened, the promise of 3G wireless came into play, and men and women began switching to that new system. I can tell you this - my initial cell phones were much much more powerful and worked a lot greater than the cell phones of today.
Occasionally, I had a call dropped and there were not as numerous service areas, yes there were much more dead zones, but the signal was significantly far more powerful due into the fact it was 3 W, and now that it ran off my car battery or a huge battery pack in a small carry case, it had ample power to maintain that strong signal.
Today, when I use my AT&T cell phone, I am usually cursing simply because the service is so bad, I wonder The exact reason I am even paying for it. In fact, the loss of productivity in one dead zones, along along with other the cell phone calls dropping, I feel as if AT&T need to be paying me. Apparently, I am not alone many individuals go through the same way. Nevertheless, the 4G wireless is on the way and everyone will be switching to that so that they are going to have Internet access allowing them to do e-mails, twitter, video, and real-time text messaging with no the usage of ground lines
A very good many men and women do not know already of a time when there was no email or internet. And most people who appear to be in enterprise today, who seem to be under 50 years old don't keep in mind a time when we didn't have fax machines, the fact is that fax machines came into play concerning the time of these very first cell phones. Mind you, there was nonetheless no Internet, no e-mail, and though ARPANET was being utilized by the military, and by think tanks, research centers, and top universities, it wasn't very out there into the public in the way we have it now.
Fast forward to today and now no one should go anywhere without a cell phone. Social researchers have noted fewer men and women wearing wrist watches. They do not need a wristwatch because which is a basic feature on all cell phones now. Of course, this does not help companies like Rolex who are catering to the young up-and-coming BMW crowd, In case you look around you will see that many young executives don't even wear a watch and most of our younger generation doesn't wear a watch either.
It seems that the wrist-watch replaced the pocket watch, and also the cell phones are replacing just about everything. right now people use their cell phone or smart phones to do their e-mails, and these same phones act like a PDA, no one carries day planners anymore, although a few individuals do, myself included perhaps out of habit from employing a day planner from one the time I was 12 years old in my business until I was in my mid-40s. Perhaps, I am giving away my age, but sometimes old habits die hard.
Today with other numerous laptop notebooks, PDAs, and smart phones, it seems none of that other stuff is needed. including your human memory say numerous psychologists, who argue that this technology is causing the human brain to rewire itself differently because there appear to be distinct needs to get along in the world. After all, your entire most powerful friends seem to be on the speed dial and you also do not have to remember phone numbers anymore. And all of your contacts and Info is on your smart phone, in your e-mail program, or on your own laptop.
Cyber security analysts worry that if the technique crashes or God forbid an electro-magnetic pulse, neutron bomb, or nuclear device is set off high in the atmosphere it could destroy all the electronic equipment, including all the cell towers, your laptop, your television, your refrigerator, and your smart phone. Where will you be then, and can you rely on your own memory and the brain you're born with to carry in your everyday endeavors - scary thinking, but perhaps we need to address this as we consider the evolution of cell phones.
Today, our cell phones have changed the whole dynamics of our society. There seem to be unspoken etiquette troubles of cell phone use in public. There seem to be rules when we can use our cell phones of course, if we can't. problems including driving having a cell phone and the number of auto deaths And also this happen although people seem to be driving and talking about the phone in the same time. There are already significant disasters triggered by texting although driving a bus or conducting a train.
The fact is that as our technology has evolved, It's evolving significantly more quickly compared to the human brain can to adopt it all in. as a result of the multitasking required in our society to obtain along as well as the high pace and productivity that jobs require, multiple brains cannot cope or adapt rapidly enough. Which seems to be a problem, if some men and women aren't able to create the switch, however they attempt to, sometimes even though driving with other disastrous results.
Our smart phones are becoming super cell phones that have more and much more features, such as the capability to store music like the iPod, and vast amounts of data like our electronic PDAs. These devices are Obtaining more high-tech every and each and every year and they are feature rich. numerous have five to ten gigabytes of Info storage now. One recent research at the cell phone market noted that 90% of the people who own cell phones have never employed all the features, and don't already know how to program them, or even that they exist on their cell phone. many people don't even care, they Make usage of the features they want and none of the others.
This is genuinely a Popular problem with other new technologies, and It is something that happened with other that Beta and VHS recorders. what's that old joke, there are tons of features on your video recorder at home, but no one knows the simplest way to use them, and prior to we all learned that we need to discover to use these features, the VHS video recorder is out at the new DVDs are here. Now cable companies offer boxes And this can record many shows so it is possible to watch later or pause a live Tv technique whilst you visit the bathroom, or go to the kitchen to get something to eat. Some enable you to use your cell phone to do remote programming too.
These appear to be all things Well-liked challenges that are encountered and similar issues with other any new personal tech devices Which turn out to be mass consumer products. Cell phones and our current smart phones seem to be no exception. It is tough to say the future what types of new features in our cell phones will have. The sky is the limit, as well as the imagination and demand for much more features and much better technology is readily apparent. The early adopters of such cell phone and smart phone technologies appear to be prepared to part with large bucks to have all-in-one devices. Therefore, these trends will continue.
Just to give back an example of A number of the crazy Concepts folks come up with other for future smart phones let me let you know a small quick story.
Our on the internet Think Tank came up having a program to create a PhD or Personal Health Device, And also this tracks your diet - in your cell phone. How it worked was quite simple, when you will be at the grocery store, you would scan all the Products that you bought, and they would go into storage inside your smart phone. every time you ate one of the Merchandise you would simply select what you ate, and punch in the wide range of servings and also you would calculate and maintain track of your calories, fat content, and recommended day-to-day allowances in the significant five food groups.
The smart phone would require a scanner system on it, later subsequent versions of this smart phone and personal health device would be able to scan Goods by way of RFID tags. Your phone can often tabulate and even recommend what you should eat, how several a lot more miles you'll want to jog, and that Which you would have to keep your diet to meet your personal health goals, and weight loss program. Sounds crazy doesn't it, yes, it does, but the venture capitalists like the idea. So too, do firms that create high tech smart phones today, as everyone is looking to get a jump on the competition.
GPS systems by means of smart phones or cellular high-tech phones is extremely possible (now available), and also you don't even need satellites to do it. If you're within the realm of multiple cell towers your region could be triangulated really quickly, And also this pinpoints your exact area within 10 feet. Ah ha, you see The problem in this too; What about privacy you ask? that is a great point and that's An additional issue that men and women seem to be extremely concerned about with other all this new high-tech personal smart phone innovations.
Google Phone and social networking connections appear to be on horizon. that's to say, linking your smart phone along with other your entire social networking friends, but apparently Google got into a small bit of a problem and noted that multiple folks aren't ready for that just yet. In fact, multiple those that appear to be friends on social networks to make connections, have no intention of ever meeting these people in genuine life, and therefore they aren't extremely friends. And since you do not very know anything about those connections or friends on your social networking site, the last thing you want these to do is know specifically where you will be within 10 feet.
That should appear to be obvious, and in the future it may not be such a massive deal, but men and women seem to be nonetheless a little paranoid and they want to have their privacy. Meanwhile, we read much more and more articles about social networking gone bad. that is to say individuals using social networks to stalk other people, Which too concerns parents who have teenagers, who use social networks on a daily basis, and some that use them on an hourly basis, and a good many who appear to be texting each and every few minutes.
One recent investigation of cell phone users was able to require a 93% predictability of where a person might be Based on the patterns determined by their cell phone, and when it was connected to any given local cell tower. The research discovered that a lot of people stay within 6 miles of their homes. These patterns of predictability appear to be a truth in our society and the way we operate as folks - However this brings up all types of problems that have attracted the attention of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and it too touches on The issue of privacy and paranoia, it catches men and women off guard.
Then There is the new trend with smart mobs using their smart phones, and having fun with and meeting up in different areas all at the same time. although these schemes appear to be utilised for fun, entertainment, and socializing, these same types of smart mobs go through the power to destabilize a society or civilization. Consider if you will the usage of technology in Tiananmen Square - really should governments concern yourself with your smart phone technology, or the future of 4G wireless cell phones? They probably really should be concerned with it, especially if It's employed by a foreign government to provide mass protests against what would be a normal stabile government.
In other words it has uses in warfare, the CIA, in bringing down corrupt regimes which are enemies to United States. But rest assured - the same thing could occur in the United States where perhaps a communist rogue nation state decided to have protests in the United States in our key cities on Mayday. It can frequently easily occur especially along with other our own technology being utilized against us, because of all the interconnectivity that it offers.
Does this mean that our government has to look for a way to turn off all of the cell phones in case of something like this happening?
Do they need a device to turn off certain cell phones from the system, even though leaving very first responders cell phones activated for communication?
And what about hackers, And this may have the capability to send out tens of thousands of bogus text messages, or call masses of people in to a trap, or stage a riot?
These are your concerns we have to solution and we need to realize that the same technology we create to enhance our productivity, our society, and assistance to us in our daily lives along with other our families and friends can too be employed against us.
And what happens when our smart phones become smarter than us? Some believe, as I do, that they already have. Most of the smart phones today have artificial intelligence systems within them, As an example a text messaging program And also this guesstimates Which keys you're going to press next or what you may well be attempting to say and it offers you suggest is so it is possible to fill at the blank. Creating your texting extremely quick. This really is extremely similar technology that Google uses when doing a search and offer Concepts as you will be typing to save you time. This extremely is just one form of artificial intelligence in our smart phones and cell phones today.
There appear to be several cell phones that allow you to use speech recognition to dial phone numbers, search your databases, or navigate the screens in your cell phone. The newest smart phones will have the capability to let you know when you are in proximity to a Starbucks after which send you GPS directions to consider that location. This has huge implications for retailers, advertisers, and the initial place alike. they will begin to know your patterns and habits. All these technologies seem to be available now and we will obtain them at the near future. Your cell phone will even turn into a payment device, hooked to your credit card information. All this technology exists today.
But what concerning the technologies that are just over the horizon?
We've recently seen at Comdex and CES shows the first generations of projection cell phones, that is to say video conference enabled cell phones Which enable you to project to the other party onto the nearest wall or onto a table so you can watch. This may of course be followed by the Holographic cell phones, And also this were almost like those who we saw in the Star Wars trilogy.
All these things will be out there at the next five years, and you will most likely have them Should you purchase One of the high-tech cell phones in the near future. At very first these technologies will price much extra, but those prices will come down as the great deal of units built goes up and as much more Chinese at the same time acquire their first cell phone, adding Another billion those that own such devices, therefore bringing the cost down for everyone - significantly!
By the year 2025 your cell phone will most likely be a brain chip inside of your head, and you'll be able to think that you'd like to contact someone and it will dial the number and contact them. By 2050 you're capable of doing thought transfer via the small devices, brain implant - perhaps smaller than a dime. And individuals born after that can never know what time were "thought transfer" did not exist, the same as today there are multiple those who have never known a time when mobile phones didn't exist. And now that Moore's law as well seems to apply into the cell phone and smart phone industries we can expect a size reduction as well as a power reduction to run this technology.
In other words, your biosystem will have the capability to power up your brain cell phone chip, just since it does your current human brain And this works on about a maximum of 20 W. of energy, and you might be able to have an eyelid screen, so it is possible to close one eye, and surf the Internet. It's difficult to say what the Comdex and CES Show in Las Vegas in the year 2025 will look like, It is most likely impossible to pinpoint what these shows will seem like at the year 2050. In fact, there might not be shows at all, you may be able to experience these trade shows in your holographic living room, video gaming center.
Walking the virtual halls of these trade show utilizing your avatar and talking to other avatars explaining all of the new technologies which are out there for you're the new fact albeit an Augmented or totally Virtual Reality. That appears to be where we appear to be going, though It is hard to imagine taking into consideration where we are today. Nevertheless, I can guarantee you people in the 1950s can frequently not extremely have imagined the way in And this our smart cell phones have evolved at the present period.
Currently, there seems to be a quite large push at the larger cities like Atlanta and Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle, Boston and New York, Miami and Houston to the 4G wireless, obviously This can continue. that is the full broadband Internet surfing in your smart phone, the ability to watch Television even though driving in a car in your cell phone. And next comes the capability to project that Television onto any screen or flat surface that is nearby or available. The technology is Acquiring much more robust, It's Finding smaller, It's Getting smarter, and also you have to decide how far you want to go with it.
Perhaps, I need to write a quick eBook on this topic and explain chapter by chapter, the evolution of this ominous communication technology, as well as the future of smart phone personal tech devices. Let me know Should you know any interested potential co-authors.
At the current pace we appear to be moving, and at the speed in And also this we seem to be interfacing Using the Internet, social networks, e-mail, and television, It is challenging to say exactly what you are carrying around in the future on your own purse or pocket, but I daresay it is going to be something that is truly incredible, and at the next 10 years it will be hardly imaginable using this point in time to understand specifically what it will be, or exactly what it may possibly be able to do. I hope you will please consider all this. And contact me if you'd want to discuss this further in the online Think Tank.
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