The History Of The Mobile Phone

When did you buy your first mobile phone, in the late nineties in the current millennium? One thing is certain: you were not the first. The evolution of mobile telephony began much earlier. In the eighties consumers already bought very expensive equipment. We are going to talk about the time from the first "heavy and huge mobile phone" until the time from modern smartphones.

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercial mobile phone. It was sold for the first time in 1983 in the United States. The first conversation with a mobile phone was made by Dr. Martin Cooper from Motorola with Joel Engel of Bell Labs on April 3, 1973. He used a prototype of the DynaTAC 8000X. The price for this unit was: $4,000 (taking the inflation in account).

In 1989, the revolutionary device the Motorola MicroTAC came out. Weighing 340 grams, it certainly wasn't the lightest. It was not only the first "flip' phone (a phone with a cover), but the device was also very small.

In 1993, the IBM Simon came out. It was the first smartphone and was sold for 1000 dollars in the United States. Now consumers could use a calendar, an address book, a clock, a calculator and a notepad. It was also possible to send e-mails and to play games. A revolution in those days!

In 1998 the Nokia 3210 was born. With his interchangeable front plates, T9 for SMS messaging and a built-in antenna, the phone was very popular. Its successor, the Nokia 3310, replaced the popular 3210 in the year 2000. There were a total of 126 million copies sold. The 3310 was one of the most popular phones ever.

The first phone with a camera was the Sharp J-SH04. This phone was released in November 2000 in Japan. The 0.1 megapixel camera was able to shoot images with 110,000 pixels. The J-SH04 was also the first device with a color display (256 colors).

The Nokia 6650 was not the first 3G phone but was one of the first phones that had a fast internet connection. Nokia released the device in 2002. The VGA camera of the 6650 was able to take pictures and could record videos.

The iPhone 2G (2007) was the first phone from Apple. The mobile operating system IOS, made it much user friendlier than other phones. Apple introduced the App Store, a store where users could purchase applications for their phones. "There's an app for that" quickly became a household name. Today there are hundreds of thousands of apps released. And this number is still rising.

Google also has its own mobile operating system: Android. In 2010, Google released its first mobile phone the Nexus One. Actually, this phone can do everything except doing the dishes and vacuuming your house. Watch videos, navigate, purchase applications, read news or play a game: it's all possible with the Nexus One.

These days there are several phones on the market like the Samsung Chat 335 with a QWERTY keyboard. Very useful if you want to type in messages very fast.

What does the future hold? Phones you can roll up? Phones without a battery? One thing is certain: mobile phones are here to stay. They are part of our daily lives.

For more information about the mobile phone please visit the Samsung Chat website.

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Laptop History

A visitor has written in asking about the history of laptops, who designed the first one and why laptops were created.Answer: I'll answer this with the last question first. Laptops were designed and created so that workers could have a more portable way to work and work in different locations.
The early laptops did not resemble the laptop we know today in any way shape or form. They were very heavy, had very small displays, and lacked hard drives; everything ran from the RAM or floppy disks. Early laptops were very bulky and not sleek at all.

In 1981 the Osborne Computer Company released the Osborne 1, which when closed up, looked similar to a sewing machine case. It was powered by an electrical connection with an optional battery backup, used two 5 ¼" floppy drives (mounted to the right and left of the display), and included a modem port. The display was only 5-inches wide and could show only 52 characters per line. I think you could consider the Osborne to be the first rugged laptop.

Gavilan introduced the Gavilan Mobile Computer in 1983. It featured the clamshell design where the screen folded over the keyboard when closed, weighed in at 9 pounds, and could run on nickel-cadmium batteries for close to 9 hours.

Radio Shack released the TRS-80 Model 100 (also in 1983)and the TRS – 80 Model 200 in 1986. This later model was more compact, had a larger display and better battery power, and included built-in software. I remember using the TRS-80 (Trash 80) for creating simple documents and thinking this was pretty high tech at that time. It was certainly more fun than using a typewriter.

IBM released its version of a laptop computer - the 5155 Portable Personal Computer in 1984. It had two double-sided 5 ¼" drives and 640K RAM. Like all laptops to this point, the 5155 didn't support graphics and was used for text-based information processing only.

Compaq broke the graphics barrier in 1988 when it introduced the SLT/286 Laptop. It weighed in at a hefty 14 pounds , and had a 1.44 floppy drive and 286 processor. NEC joined the party with the NEC UltraLite, which weighed just 4.4 pounds and had overall dimensions of 11.75" (W) X 1.4" (H) X 8.3" (D).

Macintosh came onto the laptop scene in 1989 with the Macintosh Portable. It weighed between 16 and 17 pounds (yikes!) and had a 9.8-inch 640 x 400 active matrix screen. Its best feature was an operation time of close to 10 hours on a lead-acid battery. These early laptops evolved into the PowerBook line and now the MacBook line.

The 1990s saw the release of faster, sleeker machines with more storage, more ports and connectors, improved displays, and a concentration on keeping the weight down. The Apple Macintosh PowerBook line and the IBM ThinkPads became major contenders of the times.

Companies now create new laptops with faster processors and more features packed in smaller packages and they are very different from the original portable computing solutions.

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