| It is now over 60 years since the first thought of | | | | It was Motorola that introduced the first truly |
| a mobile phone were contemplated, it was 1947 | | | | portable handheld phone. |
| when a certain Mr. W Rae Young and his colleague | | | | By 1990 the mobile phones had shrunk. |
| a Mr. Douglas H Ring, whilst working at the Bell | | | | Incidentally that was they year that the first |
| Laboratories, had the idea of a hexagonal cell for | | | | Digital cellular phone call was actually made, right |
| Mobile phones. | | | | here in the United States. |
| There was a long wait from 1947, because it was | | | | The original cell phone was only supposed to be |
| not until the Eighties before we saw the first of | | | | for the consumer to be able to make or take |
| the phone of the mobile-phone revolution, and | | | | voice calls whilst they were out of the home or |
| even when they did appear on the market not | | | | work, and they were only analogue phones. |
| everybody could afford one, only the rich or well | | | | But just as anything else, as the popularity of |
| off could really afford to get one. | | | | mobile phones grew, so did the technology. You |
| The first mobile-phones were nothing like the | | | | can now do an awful lot more with a mobile |
| ones that you see today, they were very heavy, | | | | phone than just actually make a call or receive a |
| cumbersome articles, and were not very easy to | | | | call. |
| carry about. | | | | This is not the end of the improvement in |
| Even though they were big phones, the sound | | | | technology for the mobile-phone, because as we |
| was not very clear at all. The idea was to carry | | | | advance then the mobile phone will advance, and |
| the phone in your car, a sort of car phone rather | | | | the mobile-phone networks will be moving data |
| than a mobile-phone. | | | | faster than ever before. |