Imagine the scene – two women walking down the street carrying a bulky mobile phone before stopping to attach it to a fire hydrant and then opening an umbrella to make an aerial to use it. It might sound like something from a comedy sketch show but it’s actually new footage found by British Pathé showing the use of the world’s first ever mobile phone – right back in 1922.
Mobile technology has come a long way since then – long gone are the huge, heavy batteries that needed to be lugged around in cars and the brick phones of yesterday.
The style evolution of the mobile phone has had an ever changing face ever since Motorola launched the first commercial mobile phone – the 8000 series that cost a small fortune ($3,995 in the US) and weighed something silly. The phone was immortalised when wannabe entrepreneur Del Boy was seen brandishing one in an episode of Only Fools and Horses.
TV and films seem to have played a big role in the changing styles of mobile phones with The Matrix doing more for mobile phones than Neo did for the free world. The snazzy ‘slide’ phone seen in the movie was snapped up quickly and set the bar for the latest ‘must have’ phones.
The next few years brought us the delights of clamshell phones and the Nokia that everyone will always remember – the 6310 which served us all well with a mammoth battery life and was also the biggest selling phone of the early noughties.
Super sleek phones sneaked onto the market with Motorola’s RAZR phone, an ultra slim flip phone that was a welcome change to the bulky handsets out there, and came in a variety of colours.
Today we have thin, lightweight phones that can be used to do far more than just texting or playing Snake. The launch of the iPhone in 2007 gave the mobile phone world a massive shake up and it paved the way for a whole new wave of ‘smartphones’ which let us have 3G (soon to be 4G) connectivity, browse the web, use a ridiculous number of apps that can do everything from turning off your lights at home to finding you the nearest Chinese restaurant.
We can update our Facebook statuses on the go, check in at Starbucks and share our pictures taken with resolutions better than actual cameras, and with the recent influx of Google’s Android phones bringing some competition to the market, it looks like the sky’s the limit for what we can expect next.
The newest battle on the market is of course between Google’s Android smartphones like the Nexus One and HTC Desire and Apple’s iPhone, and with the release of the iPhone 4G next month; it looks like it’ll be exciting times at the top of the mobile market.
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