The drastic evolution of cell phones
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2021
- Did you know that the DynaTAC, the first-ever commercial mobile phone, was introduced in 1983? At the time it cost a whopping $3,995, or roughly $10,400 when adjusted to the inflation in 2021 dollars, so it was only reserved for the ultra-rich. How did we come to today where cell phones are accessible to nearly everyone?
It all began in the ’90s when further advancements in cellular network technology, namely the transition from analog to digital technology, started to make cell phones more accessible. Going from mobile radio telephone tech to the GSM standard was a significant step forward.
That’s also around the time that text messages appeared. This was a huge and popular innovation. Cell phones started to be designed with bigger displays to ensure text messages were readable and users could also download custom ringtones, and sometimes, even play simple games on their phones.
Then came the 2000s where the leap from 2G to 2.75G wireless networks led to massive improvements in speed. Now, users could send each other music, photos, and even video. This was no small improvement and it would soon lead to the introduction of the smartphones which we all love and use today such as the foldable, stretchable, and even flip phone. What happened next?
We won’t tell you here. Instead, we will let you watch the video to find out this and many more details on how cell phones evolved and developed over time: In other words, the full history of cell phones. It’s a tale that will keep you riveted and entertained and makes for a great dinner conversation.
To get the latest science and technology news, subscribe to our newsletter “The Blueprint” at bit.ly/3BDdN5e
Find out more information at bit.ly/2Xo1vjv
#engineering 
Наука
We are the generations which saw the mobile phone evolution and internet evolution both. 😀
I'm old enough to remember the old nokia bricks and motorola razr. Man I old
Sheeeit remember them long ass vhs tape cell phones😂😂 dam mini building bricks 😂
Razr and candybar style. Brick brick was 10 years before the belt holster flip phones.
D w bout it! I do too just about! Gen X born in early 70s!
That "2nd generation" was a whole new technology that went past becoming digital. It was called PCS, Personal Communications Services, PCS opened up new bands and competition. The old analog AMPS services had only two carriers in any region, the A and the B!
I was born in 2006 (I'm almost 18 now) and I remember playing Tetris on my dad's flip phone that didn't have a qwerty keyboard but just a number pad. My mother had a phone with a qwerty keyboard but no touch screen. At some point, my dad upgraded to a Samsung s6, and then he upgraded to the still usable s9 and gave his s6 to me, my first phone. Since then I have upgraded to a Samsung A10e, then a Samsung S10e, and now finally my S22. The evolution of mobile phones is fascinating.
With instagram models and social media Im actually wishing we can go back to the world before the touch screen and camera phones .I cant be the only one.
The blackberry keyboard was perfect. The phone was indestructible.
I miss the variety of phones you could choose back before I-phone and the touch-screen phones took over. And they were all pretty small too which was nice. The last phones I had were the S4 Mini and now the Iphone 12 mini
It's fascinated!
Omg can you imagine the crazies when they hear 6G
I am waiting for 10g
@@CAPTAIN-xj5dd u dead
@@CAPTAIN-xj5dd I want ♾G
That will be great for all those times you are moving 300GB files in the middle of a busy city.
69G is ultimate G
My first ever cell phone was a little silver Samsung flip on Sprint in 2003. The thing didn't even have a camera, but it could text and use the Net. To me, it was space age. Since 2010, I've been a fan of Android and anticipate its continued evolution.
The BlackBerry phone was a good phone imo I had one and it worked better then my current smartphone does!
У меня НЕТ мобильного телефона! А у кого он есть, НЕ всегда берут его с собой!
Well you are missing out on all the advantages that a Smartphone can give,it even means you don't have to be at home to make phone calls
OH MY GOSH! 1983 1987! Its jus tlike freddy fnaf baz bear
By 2006 we had a huge arrays of pocket PDAs.
I had an HP ipaq rx1950 which had colour screen and touch stylus and ran Windows mobile. I used it mainly for music listening with headphones as it connected to early web radio.
(Had an Ericsson phone with OK camera too ...)
It wasn't really a great innovation to combine this with a phone and capacitive touch screen to give the first iPhone ...
I first encountered the first iPhone in late 2007 when an American was showing it off in a local London pub...
By 2010 I had a HTC Desire which ran Android 2.0, primitive but deemed better than Apple at the time !
I miss the simple times around '04-'08
I kinda want a new Razr now.
i remember iphone and i love apple and window pcs
my first phone was iphone 6 in 2016
Wow 3000 dollars for that?
Ok zoomer
What if you want a phone just to make phone calls? What a retro concept.
iPhone took a huge step backward by removing the head phone jack. I ask myself,"how can a company completely change the music industry and not provide a head phone jack." And no wide angle lens.
Most people with money buy bluetooth and your phone is for people with money. Ergo most people do not need your headphone jack which makes it a vestigial feature that takes up space, adds cost, and makes water resistance harder. Wired headphones are worse for phones because you move around with a phone and the wire gets in the way and can snag, while at a desk they can make sense because you are sitting in the same place. Apple just decided it is that time to do what was bound to happen someday.
Cheaper trumps all. The cord keeps me grounded in reality. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🥩🥩🥩🥩🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
That's what good research and development do .. over years and high demand ..
I remember the time when everyone had a brick phone I was born in 1979 so I lived through the cell phone age. Kids today growing up haven’t had the chance to see the dark ages of cell phones and overage charges on their bill like i have and many others probably on this comment feed. I remember when people would have a cell phone with them and a pager. Back in the true days of the cell phone people would even still have a land line. They would say. “Don’t call me on my cell unless it was an emergency. Call me on my land line.” I remember when everyone at one time had a Samsung gravity series phone. It is funny to think that not to long ago it seems like we all had also Nokia brick phones and then it went to flip phones. Then phones with qwerty keyboards on them. Wow. Also the smart phone many people think was the first iPhone which it was not. It was the I.B.M. Simon personal communicator. That came in 1992 to 1994 I believe. Smart phones back then heavily relied on a computer. You could not do anything without having to bee near a computer. Smart phones back in the day relied heavily on their computer companion. Now,,,,, with the new iPhones and newer iPhone 15 series the phone is a computer. Even the first iPhone which was the iPhone 2g not iPhone 1 but iPhone 2g it needed a computer to work with it but those were the days that the iPhone would depend less and less on a computer. Even from the iPhone 5s to the 6 and 6 plus and its successor wow!!! Big changes. Now iPhone has and other smart phones have gotten so good now you don’t really have to upgrade every year and a lot of people don’t cause the phone is so complex. The cell phone really has gone out to pasture. We still call our phones cell phones but really they are computers with a phone app. Hell. You don’t even need a Mac if you don’t want it. The phone can turn into a computer. Just get a Bluetooth keyboard and you are good to go. Don’t have a printer? No problem. Use a Bluetooth printer. Our cell phones have taken the job out of computers and are if not better than computers that we use to have. Now days, you don’t even have to check with the bank on your computer. You can just access everything right their. You don’t have to finish a task when getting in the door form a long commute. Back in the old days of smart phones you would not even bee able to start or finish a work task cause the phone needed a computer. It was basically like a dumb phone but with some smarts. And people would say that the internet was the baby internet on the early smart phone. Now you have full access to internet. Our phones have gotten so advanced that they make a cell phone look sick. The things we can do on our phones these days are so foreign to the phones of the past. I can read my paper documents with my phone with voiceover take pictures even though I am blind. Yes. The phone helps with that. Check my bank deposit checks and more. I have access to my bank 24 7 with my iPhone. With the phones of the past that was not even thought of. I personally use my phone more like a computer than a phone. But the smart phone is loosing friendship with the computer. It has. If you doubled up on ringtones back then on an iPhone you would have to connect to a computer a Mac and search for the duplicates and then sink and send the one to iTunes. With the new iPhones you don’t have to do that at all. You can resink right from your phone now. If their are ringtones that you don’t want anymore you can resink just by tapping on one of the ringtones and clearing it. The phone is so powerful these days. You can even have conversations with your phone like a friend if you want now days. Back then in the day, people would think that you are nuts talking with a devise. People would think that that was weird and their is something wrong with you talking to a piece of glass. Now put Bluetooth headset on top of that and it really looks like you are talking to yourself but you are in fact talking to your phone. Back in the day people would think that you were nuts now days, it is normal to talk with your iPhone. It is perfectly normal. Your phone has become your assistant not just a smart phone. I think in some ways your phone can do more for you than your friends can and it won’t say no. Your phone acts in a very similar way as a human does. It works all day and in to the evening and then it needs to charge and sleep. Phones are actively taking on the role as your secretary and personal assistant. My iPhone does so much for me. From when I get up to when I go to bed. I can even as a blind user use my phone to read mail on paper. If I get letters or mail I can have my phone read it. I can even pay with Apple Pay food or what ever i want. You don’t even have to use your debit credit card anymore unless the place is still old fashioned. Your phone does all the work now. Paying in restraints restaurants sorry about that and other things. Bus tickets are purchased through the phone. Taking the bus every day practically for work and pleasure. I use my phone to pay. It is actually pretty creepy what your phone can do now days. I still have my first iPhone the 5s that I got. It doesn’t even do near as much as what today’s phone does. That is a piece of nostalgia though with the iPhone cause it had the first gen Touch ID. Now our phones are reading our faces not our fingers anymore. It is incredible. But the O.G. Cell phones never did that. All they did for us back then was take calls and maybe,,,,,, texts. Even the iPhone 5s did wway more than that. I am glad that i kept an old iPhone. I still use it to this day although hardly any app works on it like back in 2013. That was a 2013 smart phone. Even speakers sounded way different. Back in 2013 they still sounded kind of metallic. The new phone these days sounds like a theater system. But back before iPhone wow!!! Their was so many variety of phones. T-mobile had flip phones like everyone else. As the years grew they did get the touch slide. The t-mobile my touch slide then the sidekick. Back in the flip phone days though they had free flip hones that the would give out. That was back in the day when carriers had still roll over minutes and weekend and night time minutes. You had to watch your minutes or you would get charged. You had unlimited nights and weekends after some hours. That now is a thing of the past though. Using the iPhone 5s though in 2023 it is very sluggish and it is painful doing simple tasks like unlocking it but that is why I kept it. It is a chore now for it to open it. It is a big deal to unlock it with your finger. It takes some seconds unlike the modern iPhone which looks at your face and quickly opens. Voiceover was way different too back in the day. Even Siri on the iPhone sounded different. The old iPhone still works but you have to keep it plugged in or else it will crash. And when you use it you get asked to update your apps but then when you do it won’t do it. It complains that the software is not compatible. So you just use what you can. It is really fun to see how slow it is and it really takes you back to its day. It gets kind of hot as it struggles to work. I still don’t know how that phone is still alive after 10 years. The iPhone 5s is going on 11 years or so and it still is working. You have to carry a charger with you if you take it out cause the battery sucks on that thing. Unlike the new iPhones these days you really don’t need anything to charge it. Cause the battery is a beast. The phone these days takes your work load with no flaw and problem. It’s nothing for your phone to bee put through hard work and at the end of the day it looks like you still never used have of your battery. The 5s is a 4 g phone but wow….. it is so so painfully slow. To use it. The iPhone 14 plus and iPhone 15 series are 5 g phones even the 12 and i think the 10 series but those are older iPhones… I love cell phones. I am a pianist but I just happen to love my tech..
thanks for your story with tech.
yaa tech change our life and also us.
well you are using 5s it is good. it is not as old beacuse basic or normal work can be done. in androd you use custom rom and apps works but hardware is no as good as curent standard ,it lags many times.
well i am using samsung a5 2014 phone. it works well for youtube chrome and whatsapp but for modern heavy games .
it lags on youtube webs not youtube apps.
it is totaly useable.
cpu is to 2012 level
cammera to 2013 level
samrtphone from 2014
android 6 2016 .
but it works
i use it till it dies may be 2026.
@@raunakraj715 well, actually I am not using the 5s. That phone is not my daily driver. I have it still but yes. She is an old phone. 11 years now. Hahahaha you can do basic stuff on it but she is super slow. Apps don’t work no on it anymore or they need updating. The phone doesn’t update any longer. But that is not my new phone. I have the 14 plus. This thing is a beast. But yea… the iPhone 5s is super old. It still works for what it does just using it as an IPod or using it for a backup phone. But it no lingers revives receives updates. It was the first phone to have Touch ID on the apple echo system. The iPhone 5s actually is a legendary and ancient phone now. But the 14 plus is actually my daily driver. That phone is new. Now they have the 15 out now but i have the 14 plus. I love this thing. I am keeping the 5s though cause though it is an old phone, it is pretty fun to go back in time and look at iPhone back in 2013. The home button was still on that phone and mine still works. No scratch on the screen or anything. I keep it plugged in cause if not it will die. Then i have to wait for a while for it to come back alive. The 14 plus though has fast Face ID. But Face ID came out on the iPhone 10. So we are well into using Face ID now. And also the c oil cool thing is is that the 14 plus has mag safe charging if you want to go that route, or you can charge it like you previously would. By plugging it in. I have done both and both work great. I have mag safe chargers and a wireless one that I dock my phone at night sometimes. But I do plug it in. With the iPhone 5s it did not even have that capability. Just a plain old charging system.
In the early days of smart phones if you were at work and you had a task you couldn’t really finish a. You would have to wrap up at your place of work and keep a hard copy of what you were doing. Then when you get in the door have time to eat something and get on the computer to finish documents that needed to bee handed in that following day. Then take things back to work. If you had an email well good luck with that. You couldn’t read or do anything with it till you got home. You had to wait til Lyon got to a computer. I think actually that it might have been simpler times back then but,,,,,, very inconvenient. Having your calendar was not accessible yea. Phone books were going away even with a dumb phone or regular cell phone you really didn’t need a phone book cause your contacts would hopefully bee in their. If you accidentally deleted them you would cry. Their was no way to back them up. Now days you have google drive and docs and iCloud. And the old way if you want to back up to your Mac or sink with iTunes but iCloud is better for the iPhone. You have your info where ever you go. You don’t have to worry about loosing your info these days really. Android has S.D. Cards and ways to back your files up but still not as good as the iPhone. And you did back then have early early days of what would bee known as mag safe although it was not magnetic. It was the cordless land line phone. You had the cordless phone. That was the predecessor for the cell and mag safe chargin that we have today. Now days your phone can charge many different ways. Plug it in or use mag safe. Even with the old iPhones you couldn’t charge them with MagSafe. Their was not such thing. You plugged it in only. That was the only way. With the new iPhones you can charge them several ways. Close to wireless would have to bee MagSafe. Power bank. Even the wireless chargers you are kind of tied down to a wire. Cause even though the phone is not plugged in the charging pad is. Their has to bee something plugged in the pad is connected to the cable but the phone is not so technically it still is wired charging but they say it is wireless cause the lightning port has no cable in it. The thing though with smart phones is that the battery doesn’t last as long as a brick cell did. You could go on a single charge for at least a week and you would charge your phone up every week. The smart phone cause it is working all th the time even when it is asleep it has to work to keep the clock running. Apps drain your battery and the processor that is still working drains it so it goes quickly down. That is why you have to charge up every night. You can’t leave a smart phone off of a charger for a week and expect it to still bee alive. You have to charge it every night or maybe every other night that is if you want to find your phone dead in the morning. So that is one thing I think that has gone down is charging. Nobody has figured out yet how to make a smart phone last for a week on a single charge. That is why we have MagSafe and power banks to haul around with us. But that stuff out ways the tons and tons of thing that we can do with a phone these days.. with a regular cell phone you couldn’t use a lot of Bluetooth accessories like you could today. With a regular cell phone if you did have Bluetooth it was very poor. Now days you can hook or connect is the better term many different Bluetooth devises to one phone. And our phones are big today. Phones back then went from being giant to small and then back to being giant again. During the iPhone 6 Plus days they were fabblits. The phone was like a little tablet. Now days you don’t hear people calling their giant plus sized phones fabblits. They are pluses. I guess that would bee the equivalent of calling a suburban a bus or truck which people did. They would call their suburban a bus back then cause it looked like a little bus. They were huge so they would say the suburban bus. Sometimes they would call them the truck. Course everything was a truck back then hahahaha.Task.
How about a cell phone that throws itself in the garage because it is a touch screen.
Nokia is an engineering Marvel in phone manufacturer ❤️
Motorola all the way price/performance.
You forgot Chinese affordable phones
The features of old phones that brought delight to the user has become a must have feature now. What delightful features of today's generation phone are likely to become a must have tomorrow and what new delightful features can we anticipate??
🌱🌱🌱🌳sir i m invent Tree sensorable power acceptor Ai quantum. This power acceptor Ai MORE update OUR new type Google quantum computer India
Pegasus 😂