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= The mobile phone =

history

In 1835 an American painter Samuel Morse made the first working electric telegraph using an electromagnet

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, in Boston, through a Liquid Transmitter he had designed. The first words ever spoken by telephone was "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!"

The first commercial telephone calls in the UK were made in 1912 when the General Post Office controlled the telephone networks.

When mobiles were first launched, each country was limited to its own national area - they could call overseas landlines or mobiles but they would not work overseas. The first mobile phone weighed 76lbs (34kg

In the early 1980's the consultants McKinsey & Co were hired by AT&T to forecast the growth in the mobile market until the end of the millennium. They projected a world market of 900,000. Today, 900,000 handsets are sold every three days.

In May 1983 Licences were granted to Cellnet and Vodafone to provide national cellular radio networks in the UK.

Vodafone and Cellnet opened for business in January 1985. Cellnet's charges were as follows: -Lease of cellular phone - £164 per quarter (equivalent of approximately £262 at today's prices) -Installation charge - £100 (approximately £160 at today's prices) -Connection to Cell net system - £60 (approximately £96 at today's prices)

The first call ever placed on a commercial GSM (Global Standard for Mobile) phone was on 1 July 1991. Harri Holkeri, governor of the Bank of Finland, telephoned the mayor of Helsinki to talk about the price of Baltic herring

September 1993 saw the launch of One 2 One, the first GSM 1800 all-digital network in the world.

April 1994 Hutchison Microtel announced the launch of its UK network, Orange.

sms - was launched in 1994 enabling short text messages to be exchanged between mobiles.

In 1998 more mobile phones were sold world-wide than cars and PCs combined.

From 1 January 1999, mobile phone customers were able to keep their old number when switching networks. The UK is the first country in the world to give customers this ability.

April 1999 saw the emergence of the first mobiles able to send email and use the web.

Today we have picture phones, multimedia video messaging and 3G handsets. Mobile phones have become a massive part of our lives, so much so that you sometimes wonder how you got by without one!

There are many types of phones like; touch screen phones’ smart phones, slide phones, and just normal phones and most phones now are touch screen

Touchscreen phones are most popular at the moment due to the launch of the i phone. People like i phones due to its great multitasking features and the easy software. Most phones are touch screen but it is still easy to buy non touch screen phones. Smart phones are phones that can do every thing including internet capabilities and email accessibility etc Slide phones are phones that have a slide out keyboards.

There are many mobile service providers and phone makes the main service providers are 02 orange and Vodafone the main mobile make4s are sony Ericson samsung apple htc and blackberry