The year is 2000 and mobile phones are not as common yet. Chances are you do not have one yourself because they cost too much, or not too many of them are available. Ten years later and you cannot imagine going a day without it. You depend on it for your email, for social networking, for news, for photography, for music and video playback, for navigation and so much more. The only thing it cant do is, well, make you a sandwich.
Its been an amazing journey this one, with so many changes in so little time. Everything has changed about them, from the monochrome displays to the features. The kind of display worth a standing ovation is a super-AMOLED, nHD or Retina display that is too good for words. What started as a two-line size display is now 2.4 for your average phone. But they keep getting bigger by the day, with the EVO 4G being a testament to this.
The ergonomics have also changed over time, but not dramatically. Bar-shape is what started the race, and even now, it is still in it. Of course some have come and gone, and right now we have sliders, dual sliders, flip and swivel. Others like the Backflip for Motorola do not have words to adequately describe them. A new development that is not too old is with touchscreen phones. Most people consider a touchscreen a necessity when it comes to a phone, simply because its flashy. Capacitive and resistive screens are a representation of what the future has to offer. But hardware keypads and keyboards are still a thing of the present and wont go anywhere for a long time to come.
Features are being developed with every rising sun. Infrared and GPRS might have passed for data transfers, but now we have Bluetooth, WI-FI, 3G and 3.5G for that. 4G is not too far away either. A feature rich-phone must have the aforementioned, plus a good camera, a navigation system, a capable browser and a lot of memory. This is what is considered as the starting point, as you dig deeper to CPUs, XviD/DivX for video playback, accelerometer sensors and so on.
Cell phones are taking over as the all rounded gadgets that eliminate the need to have things such as iPods and media players, still cameras, camcorders, and GPS systems. Whether or not these devices will be phased out altogether is still a debate in session.
The there is the pricing of the cell phones. Well right now, you can easily afford a basic cell phone for less than $50. But when you want the best in the market, you should be prepared with a lot more, like $700 for the iPhone. If within reach, the Gresso Luxor adorned in precious metals and stones could be worth your while. Affording this is something we cannot do even in multiple lifetimes so we take a pass on that. But yes, its good to know theres such a cell phone if you ever want it.
Its been an amazing journey this one, with so many changes in so little time. Everything has changed about them, from the monochrome displays to the features. The kind of display worth a standing ovation is a super-AMOLED, nHD or Retina display that is too good for words. What started as a two-line size display is now 2.4 for your average phone. But they keep getting bigger by the day, with the EVO 4G being a testament to this.
The ergonomics have also changed over time, but not dramatically. Bar-shape is what started the race, and even now, it is still in it. Of course some have come and gone, and right now we have sliders, dual sliders, flip and swivel. Others like the Backflip for Motorola do not have words to adequately describe them. A new development that is not too old is with touchscreen phones. Most people consider a touchscreen a necessity when it comes to a phone, simply because its flashy. Capacitive and resistive screens are a representation of what the future has to offer. But hardware keypads and keyboards are still a thing of the present and wont go anywhere for a long time to come.
Features are being developed with every rising sun. Infrared and GPRS might have passed for data transfers, but now we have Bluetooth, WI-FI, 3G and 3.5G for that. 4G is not too far away either. A feature rich-phone must have the aforementioned, plus a good camera, a navigation system, a capable browser and a lot of memory. This is what is considered as the starting point, as you dig deeper to CPUs, XviD/DivX for video playback, accelerometer sensors and so on.
Cell phones are taking over as the all rounded gadgets that eliminate the need to have things such as iPods and media players, still cameras, camcorders, and GPS systems. Whether or not these devices will be phased out altogether is still a debate in session.
The there is the pricing of the cell phones. Well right now, you can easily afford a basic cell phone for less than $50. But when you want the best in the market, you should be prepared with a lot more, like $700 for the iPhone. If within reach, the Gresso Luxor adorned in precious metals and stones could be worth your while. Affording this is something we cannot do even in multiple lifetimes so we take a pass on that. But yes, its good to know theres such a cell phone if you ever want it.
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