Mobile Phone World

Mobile phones are also known as hand phones and cell phones, and it’s fair to say that they have more or less flooded the planet and become a true phenomenon, with everyone in the developed world owning at least one.

Cellular networks developed by the operators have allowed this to take place, using advances on a basic radio ring technology that was already in place in the 1940s. Walkie-talkies were the precursors of the modern smart phone and most of the initial work was carried out by Motorola in the mid-1980s.

The earliest commercially available mobile phones were large and clumsy, took ages to charge up, had limited talk time and were costly. The fact that they worked at all opened up the way for Motorola and other companies to build upon the technology and make more advanced and smaller phones available to the general public at a cheaper price.

Mobile phones are now powerful devices that have a multitude of uses from direction finders and web surfers to games and music players, while they still serve their primary voice-to-voice function.

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