Modern mobile phones are significantly different from what was used 20 or even 10 years ago. Photo evidence is attached.
World's first mobile phone: Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (1983)
Today, Motorola is not a leader in the mobile industry, but it is the company that launched the world's first mobile phone. It turned out to be the DynaTAC 8000X model. The prototype of the device was shown in 1973, but commercial sales began only in 1983. The powerful DynaTAC weighed almost a kilogram, worked for an hour on a single battery charge and could store up to 30 phone numbers.
First car phone: Nokia Mobira Senator (1982)
In the early 1980s, the Nokia Mobira Senator became widely known. It was released in 1982 and was the first of its kind - it was designed for use in a car, while weighing about 10 kilograms.
Gorbachev spoke on it: Nokia Mobira Cityman 900 (1987)
In 1987, Nokia introduced the Mobira Cityman 900, the first device for NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) networks. The device became easily recognizable due to the fact that Mikhail Gorbachev used it to call from Helsinki to Moscow, and photographers did not ignore this. Nokia Mobira Cityman 900 weighed approximately 800 grams. The price was high - in terms of current money, its purchase would cost the Americans 6,635 dollars, and the Russians - 202,482 rubles.
First GSM phone: Nokia 101 (1992)
Nokia phone with a modest index 101 was the first commercially available device capable of operating in GSM networks. A monoblock with a monochrome screen had a retractable antenna and a book with 99 numbers. Unfortunately, it did not yet contain the well-known Nokia tune ringtone, as the composition appeared in the next model, released in 1994.
Touchscreen: IBM Simon Personal Communicator (1993)
One of the first attempts to create a communicator was a joint development of IBM and Bellsouth. The IBM Simon Personal Communicator phone was stripped of the keyboard, offering instead a touch screen with a stylus. For $899, buyers got a device that could make calls, fax, and store notes.
First flip phone: Motorola StarTAC (1996)
In 1996, Motorola confirmed its title of innovator by introducing the first flip phone, the StarTAC. The device was considered stylish and fashionable, it was compact not only for that time, but also in comparison with modern smartphones.
First smartphone: Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996)
The weight of the Nokia 9000 Communicator (397 grams) did not prevent the phone from becoming popular. The first smartphone was equipped with 8 MB of memory and monochrome screens. When opened to the user's gaze, a QWERTY keyboard was opened, making it easier to work with text.
Replacement panels: Nokia 5110 (1998)
In the late 1990s, companies realized that mobile phones were viewed by consumers not only as a means of communication, but also as accessories. In 1998, Nokia released the 5110, which supported interchangeable panels. The phone has become popular also thanks to the excellent assembly, good battery life. It featured the famous Snake game.
First camera phone: Sharp J-SH04 (2000)
Sharp J-SH04 was released in Japan in 2000. This is the world's first camera phone. The resolution of the camera today seems ridiculous - 0.1 megapixels, but then the J-SH04 seemed to be something incredible. After all, the phone could be used as a bad camera, but still.
Mail is Essential: RIM BlackBerry 5810 (2002)
RIM introduced its first BlackBerry in 2002. Prior to this, the Canadian manufacturer was engaged in the production of organizers. The main drawback of the BlackBerry 5810 was the lack of a microphone and speakers - a headset was required to talk on it.
PDA meets phone: Palm Treo 600 (2003)
Palm has long been considered the main manufacturer of PDAs (pocket Personal Computer) and in 2003 released the hugely successful Treo 600. Communicator with a QWERTY keyboard, color screen, 5-way navigation key was based on Palm OS 5.
Gaming phone: Nokia N-Gage (2003)
Nokia has made several attempts to capture the minds of mobile gamers and not all of them have been successful. The first truly gaming phone is called the Nokia N-Gage. It is similar in design to a portable console and was positioned as an alternative to the Nintendo Game Boy. On the front side there are gaming control keys, which few people found comfortable. The games themselves were recorded on MMC memory cards. The microphone and speaker in the N-Gage are located at the end, so all users looked like cheburashkas during conversations. There were a lot of minuses and the project failed.
O2 XDA II (2004)
O2, like Palm, was heavily involved in the PDA. In 2004, the XDA II model appeared, offering users a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, office applications. The price then bit - 1,390 US dollars.
Blade thin: Motorola RAZR V3 (2004)
Motorola RAZR V3 is considered to be the best-selling clamshell. The model attracted attention with a slim and stylish design. The creators drew inspiration from the "old man" StarTAC and as a result released a device dressed in a case with aluminum inserts, with a VGA camera (0.3 MP), Bluetooth, GSM. After the light saw the improved RAZR V3x, RAZR V3i and RAZR V3xx with a better camera, 3G, microSD.
First phone with iTunes: Motorola ROKR E1 (2005)
In 2005, few people could imagine that Apple, specializing in computers and music players, decides to enter the mobile industry (and introduces the popular iPhone). The company entered into an agreement with Motorola, and as a result, the ROKR E1 was created - a device that supports music library iTunes. The expectations of buyers were not justified - few people liked the candy bar with a Motorola design, slow USB 1.1 interface, an outdated 0.3-megapixel camera and a song storage limit (100 pieces).
Motorola MOTOFONE F3 (2007)
The Motorola MOTOFONE F3 retailed for just $60. One of the most affordable devices on the market offered a display made using the technology of "electronic paper" (EPD, Electronic Paper Display). The advantages include low weight, small thickness.
Simple finger control: Apple iPhone(2007)
The first version of the Apple iPhone was originally released in the US in 2007. Touchphone with 2-megapixel camera, 3.5-inch touch screen, with a convenient finger-oriented interface supported only second-generation networks. The iPhone did not work with MMS and could not record video. In 2008, the iPhone 3G was released, and in 2009, the iPhone 3GS. The concept has not changed in three years - programs and a user-friendly interface are at the center.
“My phone rang…” I am sure that none of us can imagine life without communications today. We forget the phone at home and rush back to get it, we can’t find it in our bag or briefcase, and we always get upset. Who brought into our lives a unique technique that helps to connect people at a distance?
Lesson plan:
Is it possible to communicate without a phone?
Of course you can! People used to live, and they didn’t have any newfangled telephone models, but they transmitted information from each other far beyond their place of residence. The need for communication forced people to invent different ways to "call for a conversation" and tell the news to comrades who are several kilometers away. How it was?
By that time, the first attempts were already being made to create a telegraph capable of transmitting signals over long distances using electricity. The scientists Galvani and Volt were engaged in the basics of electrical engineering, the Russian Schilling and Jacobi made their contribution, who invented transmission codes and an apparatus that converts signals into text.
A little later, in 1837, thanks to the American inventor Morse, an electric telegraph and a special system of codes from dots and dashes, widely known to everyone under the name “Morse code”, appeared.
But even this was not enough for the scientists of those centuries. They dreamed that it would be possible not only to receive a dry text over wires, but also to speak over them!
This is interesting! Archaeologists discovered two pumpkins in the Peru region, connected by a rope to each other and concluded that this design is a thousand-year-old ancestor of the telephone. Indeed, it is very similar to two matchboxes connected by a thread, on which we tried to “call” in childhood.
Who invented first?
The history of the appearance of the telephone is associated with Alexander Bell from America. But he was not the only one who was actively involved in the design idea of transmitting the human voice at a distance. Let's briefly go through the pages of history and trace the path the invention has overcome in the first stages of its birth.
Italian Antonio Meucci
In 1860, Antonio Meucci, a native of Italy, showed the Americans a device that could transmit sound over a wire, but he applied for a patent only in 1871, and the company that took them answered all his questions about the fate of the documents that they were lost.
German Philipp Reis
The German physicist Philipp Reis in 1861 presented to the public an electrical apparatus capable of transmitting sound. From him, by the way, his name “telephone” sounded, which we are used to hearing today, which is translated from Greek as “sound from afar”.
His transmitter was made in the form of a hollow box with holes: sound - in front and covered with a membrane - on top. But the quality of sound transmission in Reis's phone was so low that it was impossible to make out anything, so his invention was not accepted by others.
Americans Gray and Bell
Only 15 years later, two American designers Gray and Bell, completely independently of each other, were able to discover how a metal membrane with a magnet, like the eardrum of our ear, can convert sound and transmit it through an electrical signal.
Why did Bell get all the laurels of fame? Everything is simple! On February 14, 1876, he filed his application to patent the invention he discovered - the "talking telegraph" - a couple of hours earlier than Gray did.
I can imagine how upset Gray was.
Bell presented the telephone at a technical exhibition in Philadelphia.
The new technology did not have a call, the subscriber was called by the attached whistle, and the only handset both received and transmitted speech at the same time. The first telephones were forced to generate electricity themselves, so the telephone line worked only at a distance of up to 500 meters.
This is interesting! In 2002, the US Congress passed a decision that turned telephone world: he recognized the Italian Meucci as the true inventor of the telephone.
Phone evolution
Since the first telephone set was presented to the public, inventors and designers have put a lot of effort into making a modern means of communication out of a primitive device.
So, engineers were able to replace the whistle to call the subscriber with an electric bell. In 1876, a switchboard was invented that could connect not only two, but already several telephones to each other.
A year later, the inventor Edison contributes to the development of the telephone - his induction coil increases the distance of sound transmission, and the carbon microphone, which improves the quality of communication, was used until the end of the 20th century. At the same time, in 1877, the first telephone exchange appeared in America, through which those who wanted to call someone were connected to the desired telephone operator number through plugs.
Thanks to the contribution of the Russian inventor Golubitsky, stations powered by a central source were able to serve tens of thousands of subscribers. Remarkably, the first phone conversation in Russia took place three years after the advent of the telephone, and in 1898 the first long-distance line between Moscow and St. Petersburg was built.
This is interesting! The first phones were not convenient. It was hard to hear in them, so they came up with special tubes of different sizes and shapes, into which they just had to stick their nose so that the subscriber could understand what the conversation was about. At first they were made separate: one - to speak into it, the second - to listen from it. Then they began to be connected with a handle, like a modern telephone receiver. Telephone sets made of ivory, and mahogany, and cast metal. The cups of the bells were chrome-plated to a shine. But one thing remained unchanged: the case, the tube and the lever on which they hung it after the conversation.
Leaps to Modernity
The inventive world did not stop there. Having received a telephone at home, people wanted to use modern means communications already and on the street, in transport, to communicate on the way to work or home.
Such communication, not attached to the premises, was initially available only to the special services - walkie-talkies, nicknamed "walkie-talkie", or "walk - talk", became a tempting idea for ordinary users. Knowing the secrets of the device, the craftsmen tried to connect the devices to the line using such radio communications. So in the 80s, radiotelephones appeared, operating at a distance of up to 300 meters.
But the main advantage recent years has undoubtedly become cellular communication, operating from a signal moving from one station to another.
The modern "honeycomb" appeared in 1973 at the Motorola company. Their first-born worked without recharging for no more than 20 minutes and was similar in size to a brick, and weighed as much as 794 grams!
These are now our modern "mobiles" small and compact, able to take pictures, send mail and messages, play music and even think for their owner! They have become real helpers for children and their parents - you can always call and find out how things are going!
This is interesting! Singaporean En Yang is the fastest to write SMS - it takes him a little more than 40 seconds for a message of 160 characters to appear!
Interesting facts about mobile phones
This video contains 23 more interesting facts about our phones. They can complement your project, so look carefully.
Now you know everything about the appearance of the telephone. Make a report and tell your friends, they will be interested! And I say goodbye to you, but do not forget to look into new projects and stay in touch!
Success in your studies!
Evgenia Klimkovich.
The first means of communication for man were light and sound signals. With the help of tom-toms or the smoke of bonfires, neighboring tribes let each other know about the approaching danger. There was enough within the tribe voice communication. With the expansion of the human habitat and with the development of intertribal ties, the communication system was also improved in parallel.
The benefits of mobile communications
In the zero years of the current century, mobile communications began to penetrate the territory of Russia. The first mobile phones could not have global significance in human life due to their insufficient prevalence. It was mainly members of the same family who could communicate, who had taken steps to create a mobile intra-family connection. Main advantage mobile communications at that time it was possible to track each other's whereabouts and keep in touch.
With the introduction of mobile phones into the everyday life of the vast majority of Russians, mobile communications have become the main means of communication not only individuals among themselves, but also for individuals with organizations, regardless of the proximity of a landline telephone and locality.
How did people live before mobile phones?
The need for human communication in the 20th century was satisfied by a whole set of means of communication. The oldest of them was, under which an entire industry was created. To date, the epistolary genre has lost its informational meaning and is the prerogative of either romantics or residents of completely deaf settlements. But they also face a problem - to find today Mailbox, without knowing exactly its location, it is quite difficult.
In case of an emergency, there was a 24-hour telegraph office from which one could send an urgent telegram and be sure that information would be delivered to the address within an hour. The long-distance telephone also worked around the clock, in addition, there was a calling system for people without landlines. With the advent of mobile communications, these technologies have been eliminated, and the ability to use these services for people who do not have a mobile phone has disappeared.
In the absence of mobile communications, pay phones stood on the streets of cities, from which it was possible to call any number within the settlement for a small fee. Emergency phone numbers were on everyone's lips and the call to them was free. Another thing is that I had to run around the city in search of a working automatic machine, but now they have disappeared from the streets, so emergency calls are only available from a mobile phone.
Surely many of you from time to time recall the past, the era of the birth of cellular communication and the era of its development. Moreover, we are much less likely to remember the draconian communication tariffs of past years than successful phone models, which some of us still gather dust somewhere on the shelves. Picking up a good old pipe, a feeling of nostalgia involuntarily arises. Oh, how nice it is to feel it again in your hands, what a sense of confidence it conveys and how enticingly its screen lights up after inserting a SIM card. Let's go over the past and remember the most successful Cell Phones past years, which have become classics and a standard of quality.
Motorola StarTAC 70
Released: 1997
One of the first tubes of many veterans of mobile communication from those times when it was available only to the elite. Motorola StarTAC, the classic business-class model of the outgoing brand, supported only the GSM 900 band, but even then it had relatively small dimensions - 57x98x23 mm and weight - 125 g.
Release year: 1999
An elite phone at a crazy price in those years (about 11-12 thousand rubles). The model was made in an aluminum case and had a sliding flip covering the keyboard. It was distinguished by the absence of an external antenna, very miniature dimensions - 44x100x17 mm and weight - 91 g, therefore it was especially popular among girls. The downside is the mass defect of the b/w screen, as a result of which almost every second phone required repair over time. However, this did not prevent the great popularity of the model. An interesting fact: such a chic phone could only read SMS in Russian, but, despite the presence of an input in Cyrillic, SMS in their native language came from it to the addressee empty.
Release year: 1999
Another premium-class phone of the Ericsson brand that has long gone into oblivion. Just like the Nokia 8850, it had a flip covering the keyboard, but in this case it didn't move down, but folded back when you pressed the button, which looked very stylish. Here, too, it was not without drawbacks - over time, this button was erased and ceased to fulfill its function. The model had a very miniature 3-line monochrome display and was distinguished by its thinness - 15 mm.
Release year: 2000
The same thin counterpart of the T28s model, however, it already belonged to the business class, had very impressive dimensions of 51x130x15 mm and a large display with 5 lines of text. The phone turned out to be very successful and in demand, especially after the price dropped a lot. It is worth noting that this device was one of the first phones with a full-fledged Russian input, including sending SMS.
Nokia 3310
Release year: 2000
Classics of the genre in the budget segment. The phone is a legend of yesteryear. Almost every third person went with him. Nokia 3310 was bought by workers, students and everyone who needed a simple "workhorse". The phone was purchased by company employees and couriers as a simple and reliable device for work. The model was produced in various colors and had interchangeable panels. It had a rather decent weight - 133 g. Minus - a Ni-MH battery included.
Release year: 2001
Another expensive fashion phone from Nokia with a b/w screen and replaceable body panels. Vylelyalsya original designed keyboard with stylish backlit buttons. Also, the model was distinguished by miniature dimensions - 43x97x19 mm and weight - 84 g. An additional bonus was the built-in FM radio - a rarity in those days.
Siemens ME45
Release year: 2001
A chic dust- and moisture-proof business-class SUV with a black-and-white screen. The debut of Siemens and the most successful model of the brand that has left the market. The model gained immense popularity and was in active demand even after being discontinued.
Nokia 6100
Release year: 2002
Miniature and very thin business-class model with interchangeable panels and a color screen (4096 colors, 128x128 pixels). Dimensions - 44x102x14 mm, weight - 76 g. A very expensive phone at the beginning of sales (about $ 400). It was in demand for a very long time, including after it was removed from the assembly line.
Release year: 2002
Practically complete analogue Nokia 6100 based on the successful Series 40 platform, however, thanks to a stylishly designed keyboard and original backlighting of the keys, it already belonged to the premium segment. The price is similar to 6100.
Nokia 6310i
Release year: 2002
Modified Nokia model 6310, the main strong point of which is a record operating time from a powerful 1100 mAh battery. The Nokia 6310i phone with a b/w screen with a blue backlight (unlike the 6300, where the backlight is green) and Bluetooth support was able to live from one charge to 2 weeks. It had impressive dimensions of 47x130x19 mm, weight - 114 g and belonged to the business class. The model remained popular and in demand even years after it was discontinued, which was used by unscrupulous sellers offering a “refresh” version (with an updated case) of the phone for big money (about 10 thousand rubles).
Release year: 2003
Gorgeous fashion and at the same time affordable model of the former brand Sony Ericsson, which managed to turn from the once merged Sony and Ericsson into just Sony. It was distinguished by a beautiful body "under the metal" and cool polyphony. The continuation of the phone in the form of the T630i model with an improved screen (TFT vs. STN) and a camera with a software-enhanced resolution up to VGA did not give the company such repeated success.
Release year: 2004
A fashion class razor phone with a thickness of 14 mm, which caused a storm of emotions and active demand among buyers, especially after a strong drop in price. It was not for nothing that the RAZR (Razr) line subsequently received its numerous continuations, including the V3i model with an improved screen resolution (240x320 instead of 176x220) and a more advanced camera (1.3 MP versus VGA).
Release year: 2005
An elite phone that became famous precisely because of its high cost (about $ 2,000 at the start of sales). The model was bought by those who could afford it to stand out. The phone was originally produced in a black or silver steel case (then other variations appeared) and featured a stylish sliding mechanism, with the help of which its upper half, including the display, seemed to “shoot” up when you move your finger. In the future, like any successful model, Nokia 8800 received its continuation in the Sirocco line, and then the latest series - Arte, which featured an increased battery, a better display and camera, 3G support and a variety of body finishes, including a real sapphire as a navigation key.
Release year: 2009
3G smartphone with a 600 MHz processor based on the legacy operating system Symbian OS 9.3 (Series 60). Had a great time battery life thanks to a powerful 1500 mAh battery. Also played an important role stylish case with an aluminum back cover only 10 mm thick.
Release year: 2011
Of the relatively modern devices, I would like to note iPhone smartphone 4s by Apple, as the most successful model with an "optimal" 3.5-inch screen - the latest work of the company's mastermind - Steve Jobs.
Afterword
On this, perhaps, everything. The era of hit phones that have become classics, the standard of style and reliability is over. Or not? What phones, or rather, already smartphones of our time, can claim such a title? Time will show.
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Hello friends, I don’t know if you understood from the title of the article what I want to write about in it, but I wanted to express my opinion about mobile phones that were before and now. Perhaps this post will seem to you about nothing, but still, for many, I think this topic will be interesting.
A cell phone is a cool thing, isn't it? Well, this is already something integral in our life, life is not the same without a mobile phone, and for many it is generally impossible. To be honest, I don’t really remember the first models of mass mobile phones, but still, whatever one may say, they were reliable. Even the same Nokia, which is in the picture above. Yes, there are a lot of jokes about her and all that, they say, a hammer, a brick, etc. But, after all, a reliable phone.
Yes, it was not so sophisticated compared to today's mobile phones, but what is not like that, if you compare it with today's devices, then it is a piece of plastic nothing more :).
What prompted me to write this article. I'll probably start from afar. More than three years ago I bought myself a communicator from HTC, it was HTC P3400. Such an inconspicuous device, manufactured in 2007, and this phone has served me for more than three years, and only recently I changed it to HTC One V. As you can see, I really liked this company, and I fell in love with it precisely for the HTC P3400.
Why? Because that phone worked for three years and probably will work for so long. It's just that it's reliable and made the way it should be, even outwardly it looks almost like new. Yes, there is a weak processor, old Windows Mobile, about which everyone has already begun to forget, but it worked and continues to work.
How I bought myself new phone, and gave HTC P3400 to my brother. He bathed him, of course, in a couple of days in water completely :). I thought it wouldn't work anymore. But it dried out and turned on, and turned on as usual, the sensor works, the screen works as usual. The only question is how long he will work after such a bath.
The phone, although simple compared to today's devices, was unreliable and not made through *opu.
Now let's get back to my new purchase of HTC One V, btw its short review I wrote . I thought, well, since HTC made such a reliable communicator back in 2007, now in 2012 their devices should be just perfect. That's why I bought myself One V.
But what I thought turned out to be true just the opposite. As it turned out, there are enough problems with work, assembly and body. You read the reviews on the forum, it becomes scary. There probably came out several different parties with different marriages. Either yellow spots on the screen, or the phone completely turns into a brick, or the power button gets stuck, and you don’t know what new will come out tomorrow. Everything seems to be fine for me so far, only the backlight is visible from the side, but oh well, and so far so good. Yes, this phone is good, beautiful and functional. But it is assembled hastily and somehow. Why am I paying money for the phone, I have to think about whether he will die tomorrow or something else.
This is a problem not only for this model and not only for HTC. Do you know why? Because competition, eternal after that, for those who are cooler and who is better. Rivalry between companies, because whoever releases the first is the leader, he will have both income and respect. And for this reason, phones now hit the shelves not tested, they get there because they need something new and faster than competitors. And because of this haste, ordinary buyers suffer, that is, you and I.
That's the case, I'm waiting for your opinion in the comments. Good luck!
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