EVOLUTION OF

PHONES

MADE BY:
UNS YASEEN & MUHAMMAD BILAL AKRAM
INTRODUCTION:
To begin with, let us mention that nowadays people do not imagine life without
a cell phone. For us, it is no more a wonder of engineering, but a usual means of
communication and it is more likely that a person without a cell phone will be
considered an odd person.
It should be mentioned that the idea of person-to-person wireless
communication is not new.
In 1901 Prof. William Ayrton predicted: “A time when if a person wanted to call
to a friend he knew not where, he would call in a loud, electromagnetic voice,
heard by him who had the electromagnetic ear, silent to him who had it not”
ORIGIN:
“The telephone is generally acknowledged to have been invented by the Scottish-
Canadian Alexander Bell working in Boston in 1876”. Thus, we have had the opportunity
to communicate at distance for more than a century already, but mobile phone
communication became especially popular and widespread not more than a decade ago
and today we can hardly imagine our life without it.

WHAT MAKES IT SO POPULAR?

The answer to this question is evident: A cell phone does not require any special skill to
use; even children can speak on the cell phone.
At the same time, in comparison with other ways of indirect communication, such as, for
instance, mail or even e-mail, cell phones are much more convenient.
CELL PHONES OF THE FIRST GENERATION:
It will be interesting to mention that the first cell phone was made by Dr. Martin Cooper,
who worked as an engineer at Motorola at that time. So, the historic date in the
development of cell phones was April 13, 1978, when Martin Cooper made the first phone
call using the first cell phone, Motorola DynaTac when he was walking along a street in
New York. It is not difficult to guess that visually this first mobile telephone looked like a
brick, and it was rather heavy and needed charging very often. This is why it could be
called “movable”, but not “mobile”. Such were the cell phones of the first generation.
CELL PHONES OF THE SECOND GENERATION:

Speaking about mobile phones that belong to the second generation. Due to high
technologies, these phones are very light and comparatively small, they provide
long talk time. These phones are also equipped with LCD screen displays, which
can show phone numbers, messages, etc. “Clamshell” phones, which had a screen
display on the back of the cover page, became to appear after palm-like phones
Nowadays cell phones are equipped with brightly colored screens. They have a lot
of additional functions, such as synchronization with computers; moreover, they
are equipped with Bluetooth.
SMARTPHONE:
Finally, smartphones that were developed in the late 1990s should be mentioned.
These devices are equipped with the latest mobile processors such as Intel XScale and
they are characterized by high-resolution color LCD screens and impressive memory
capacities. A smartphone may be used as a music player or it can function as a digital
camera and computer as well.

CONCLUSION:
In conclusion, let us say that phones and cell phones have changed greatly in their
development. Moreover, the technical revolution is even more promising. We cannot
even imagine the way a cell phone will look in some ten or twenty years.