The Past, Present , and Future of the Development of Mobile Phone Functions
Abstract
The intention of this term project is to examine past, present phone functions and to explore the potential functionalities in future mobile phones. The whole project is going to be written in two separated papers. A historic review of the technological progress in mobile telephony and the social context at that time is given in the first paper. Through a careful examination into the momentous historic events in the technical development process of telephone, radio and subsequent mobile telephony, as well as how the society reflected upon these events, people can gain valuable knowledge and insight into how technological, economic, political and social factors intertwined to affect the treatment, adoption and diffusion of innovative communications technologies. With rapid technical progress, the mobile communications had been transferred from analogue to digital, the physical mobile devices were made of from vacuum tubes to transistors, and the communication services had extended from voice to data and more. Likewise, the mobile phone has exhibited unlimited creativeness on its functionalities. The second paper will firstly investigate the strength and weakness of present handset functions as well as currently developing technologies, which are promising to be implemented as new functions on the next-generation small gadgets. Eventually, by linking the past experience into modern mobile development, we are able to paint a much clear picture which helps people not only look at the past to gain a perspective on the present but also predict and imagine what mobile phones you will have in the near future.
