In past ten years the use of mobile phones has increased
tremendously, especially smartphones. This rise has in turn fueled the
grow of mobile phone to heights that were at some point in time seemed
impossible, take for example the internet who in the world would have
ever thought that you could travel all over the entire world simply by
touch your phone, amazing. The question on everybody mind is what will
the future hold in store, but that is a topic for another day, for today
you get to know change that have marked mobile phone technology for the
last ten years
In 2005 Nokia N92 made Mobile TV possible
This was actually done in South Korea. It was possible when the
Koreans made headway driven by improvements in the quality of screens.
The clarity of the screens made the pictures more visible and thus
watchable on the small mobile screens. This was followed by the launch
of satellite and terrestrial mobile TV services
In 2006 Samsung B600 the first 10 megapixel camera for mobile phones was invented.
The Samsung made the first 10 MP cameras, unlike the previous years
where producer could only make phones that would produce very low
resolution pictures. Possibly the emblematic resolution that puts the
mobile phone camera at the same level with digital camera was the 10 MP.
In 2006 Ben Q Siemens S88 the First ever mobile phone with an OLED Display
Abbreviated as AMOLED was a very important stepping stone in mobile
phone display because it gave the user the ease of watching and viewing
both video and still images on mobile phones. Apart from that it also
used less battery power. Later on Samsung through the Samsung S8500
introduce the first phones to use screens with super AMOLED display, it
had 0.001mm of layer for touch sensor and which by coincidence enriched
the display.
May 2007 LG Prada First mobile with a capacitive touchscreen
The LG Prada touchscreen phone was as result of LG hard work and
effort. The launch at that time was one of a kind and which marked the
birth of the touch screen phone era. The LG Prada had four icons all
found at the bottom, which were used to make and receive phone call,
send messages and go to the main menu. They were also other bottoms
found at the side, they was used to control the volume and the camera.
In 2007 Apple i-Phone starting the smartphone and mobile data revolution
The use Internet on phone was at first a huge flop. But the ideal
later kicked in when apple jump in, although apple cannot as the sole
creator of internet on mobile phone it sure did play a big role, driven
by massive grow in internet used over the year pushed this ambition even
more further
In 2007 Samsung SCH-B710 First 3 Dimension mobile phone Camera
A coherent result of a 3 Dimension screen was the invention of 3
dimension camera for mobile phones; this was 5 years after the creation
of the first 3 dimension mobile phone screen. The camera had 1.3
megapixels that came along with a dual lens and 2.2 inch screen for the
Samsung SCH-B710.
In 2007 the unveiling of apple iPhone OS
IOS was created and developed by Apple Inc. was specifically meant
for Apple hardware. It officially was launched in 2007 and would later
on power all of apple’s devices including tablets and pads.
In 2008 T-Mobile G1 Smartphone and the introduction of the Android Operating System
November 2007 saw the formation of the open handset alliance by
thirty-four companies that pledged to introduce tech that would be used
worldwide. Rival firms come together in support of Google android
development project …all fueled by the announcement and release of the
tremendously successful Apple iPhone 2G in June 2007.
After apple’s release the Android operating system moved rapidly from
incubation to the market. In June 2008 T-Mobile declared the G1 and
which was followed by the installation of the android 1.0 on mobile
phones.
In 2010 Symbian
Symbian OS was officially unveiled in 2010 as the replacement of UIQ
and OS6 that were first used for Nokia handsets. A year later in 2011 a
replacement was created for the Symbian OS the Symbian Anna was
introduced followed closely by Nokia Belle in August the same year.
In 2010 the first mobile phone with an in built projector was introduced, the Samsung Beam I8520
The projector has been built on a high end smartphone and gives off
WVGA image quality. In case you are wondering what WVGA is, this is a
wider screen version with a higher resolution. It does not produce the
best quality video or pictures but truth be told is really innovative.
That being said they is still more room for improvement perhaps in the
near future Samsung or some other firm will come up will a upgraded
type.
In 2012 41MP camera to advance camera phone the Nokia 808 Pure view
Nokia has really done it this time round, with the introduction of
the Nokia 808. The 808 is definitely Nokia’s effort to distinguish
itself in an otherwise full smartphone market. The reviews about this
mobile phone were crazy.
The World’s first mobile with built in radiation monitor the Sharp Pantone 5 107SH
Can you recall the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant tragedy? Radiation
was released into the atmosphere and the citizen became very frustrated
by the government since it could not provide accurate information about
the hazard that existed. Then the need for a device that would measure
radiation arose this in turn gave birth to the sharp pantone smart phone
that could actually measure radiation. The smartphone can display the
measurements at the touch of a button.
In 2014 the Amazon Fire Taking Image Recognition Software to its next level
The Amazon Fire is filled with many innovations but only one that
stands out from the rest, the use of image recognition technology. But
what is a leap forward is integrating an excellence camera, one touch
button, picture recognition processing done back in the Cloud with a
data base of 33 million books, videos, music tracks and magazines for
sale.
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