The first cell phone was invented in April 1973. The person responsible for this invention was Dr Martin Cooper (as seen on the left) who was the systems general manager of Motorola. The mobile phone he invented was called the Motorola Dyna-Tac. As seen in the picture on the right, this phone had no display. Back in the 1970's, this handset would have been considered as breath-taking multimedia. The only features of this mobile were talk, listen and dial. Nowadays, not even grandparents would be caught dead with this handset. The way multimedia has developed over the years has had a phenomenal impact on mobile phones. Almost every single phone made now days has a built-in digital camera. The internet is now accessible on a cell phone and anything can be downloaded. A GPS used to be a luxury which came at a high price…one can now buy a cell phone which has a GPS built-into it which has all the features of a normal GPS. In the old days, people used to listen to music on huge record players. Now days one can download music onto one’s cell phone within seconds and listen to it straight away, wherever you are. The development of multimedia such as cell phones has taken every body by storm. The multimedia which people use is no longer chosen by what the actual product does, but rather how the product makes that person look and how adds to their social status. Mobile phones are no longer chosen for their practicality or features, they are now chosen by which the latest model is or which one matches my outfit. The original point of cell phones has been forgotten.
1 comment:
thank goodness phones are smaller
Their is no ways that my pockets could hold a phone that small. Hey at the least we would probably never lose our phones and if some one tried to steal it we could just bash them over the head with it
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