Modern World History SLP 3



Mobile Phones Technology

Introduction

We are living in the Cyber-society, a society which occupied by the computer-mediated communication. This associated with the internet and internet services are now available on the mobile phones with the instant messaging, groupware, enhanced pagers and wireless personal digital assistants. Today, people can be connected anywhere in the world, carrying a mobile phone in the pocket just with different software. A small device has become so much popular in the short period just because of the application and software added to mobile phone (Uma & Padmavathi, 2009).

From 1999 till now, the communication has experienced an unprecedented improvement and advancement due to technological advancements. The telecommunication industry all over the world has gone through unprecedented changes in the last decade. Till 1999, only 16 percent of the total population had an access to a telephone. This percentage shot up to more than 75 percent in 2010. This is partly attributable to the innovation and phenomenal growth in communication technologies which helped the industry in flourishing at an unprecedented pace, steep declines in the voice revenues of PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), and an explosion of OTT (Over-The-Top) global industry consolidation and communication services.

Since the late 1990s, cellular phones have gone from being a luxury to a necessity. Nowadays, it seems essential to have a cell phone for a number of reasons such as emergencies and keeping up with family members. Today, billions of people have mobile phone connections, and this technology has become a global phenomenon (Campbell & Park, 2008). Cell phones have taken place of landline, and more and more people are using cell phones in social situations. Cell phones are our best companions today, which use on a regular basis in our daily lives.

Many cell phones today have the capability of performing many tasks that a computer can. Accessing the Internet, writing emails and sending documents from wherever is quite easier. This, in turn, allows people to be on top of time-sensitive issues.

During 1980s, various mobile telephony standards were developed in U.S. In Europe, NMT became first successful cellular system, which also allowed international roaming (Ling, p. 6). Afterwards, there has been no stopping of innovations that have been accomplished within the mobile industry. Innovations and applications such as GSM, SMS, MMS, Edge, 2G, 3G and many more are in the pipeline. All these technologies have changed our social paradigms and there no doubt that future innovations will continually affect our current social boundaries.

Discussion

Current State of Mobile Phones

The evolution of mobile is incredibly swift and still the mobile world is speedily changing. Weighing below 100g and bearing less resemblance to the first cellphones, today's compact digital models have moved on to a level where they resemble just an advanced digital video camera supplemented with features of e-mail and phone. Actually, one of the fastest-growing fragments of the entire market of mobile phone are camera phones as there is a growing demand of top quality colour screens, or ...