Technology in mobile phone

The mobile phone, also known as cell phone, has been one of the most successful inventions in the 20th century. The first commercial mobile phone system was launched in 1979. According to Cellular Online, the global cell phone subscribers in 2003 are around 1.52 billion, which is about 20 percent of the recent world population. This figure showed the success of the mobile phone industries. It provided communication for people no matter anywhere and anytime.



Cell Phones were meant to be a device which enables users to have the ease on telecommunication freely wherever they want. But in the late 90’s, SMS (Short Message Service), a new technology was brought out. SMS is a transmission of short text message from Multi Function Cell Phones to Touch Screen Cell Phones. This became a revolution making mobile phones to develop into a device that not only allows simple voice to voice telecommunication. HiPhone now not only became an entertainment device (featuring functions such as camera, FM and MP3 players etc) but also allowing users to access through internet, personal digital assistant (PDA) functions and also having video conference using the latest 3G network. Someday, Blackberry Phone might be able to replace computers.



From the early stages of analog cellular to now the latest 3G mobile phone system, the mobile phone developed rapidly in the past 20 years. It showed that Cell Phones is one of the leading technology in the high technology industry. The convenience brought by this technology indeed changed the life of many people and society. Many things such as banking, gathering information such as reports or latest news, even china wholesale, control the share market via GPRS etc are what the technology helped to improve and ease the life of people.



Along with the development of mobile phones, many subsidiary technology developed by the mobile phone companies were also developed and influencing other products such as Bluetooth, Symbian (an operating system (OS) specially designed for mobile phones) and some software companies that designs software for the Symbian OS. These technologies, one partly, widely used on Wifi Cell Phone, which you can link to your PC and accept email; Another partly, combined with Dual SIM Card Cell Phone that improved usage of two cards and multi-function for business convenience. Thirdly, applied this Tech in the TV Function Cell Phone, has allowed some TV fans watching their favorite program through the small hand-phone even in their way to home. In a word, all of these related with this Tech improved the interactive among mobile phones and the users. More and more companies now are trying to gain a share in the mobile phone market. Many big companies which are developing PDA OS such as Window CE (Pocket PC), PALM and Linux are also engaging their OS with mobile phones functions. This proved that the mobile phone industry is indeed a good market to invest in. The competition in the market is also another reason causing the mobile phone industry to develop in such a short time.



Since mobile phone was developed and used by a large population of people, it changed the lifestyle of many people. On positive views, mobile phone ?provided a fast and immediate communication for people, such as Camera Cell Phone which can easily take photos when you want in any time or any where, even be used to monitor personal life, and built up a much closer relationship within each another. Though, the negative views of mobile phone became a popular discussion now. Symptoms such as radiation which causes cancer from the mobile phones and mobile phone addiction are now argued to be the disadvantages of the technology. The danger brought by using mobile phones such as the unsafe of using mobile phone during driving or radiation of mobile phone causing danger to certain places such as the gas station are also problems for mobile phone users.