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    MOBILE PHONES

    A mobile phone (cellphone, etc.) is a portable telephone that

    can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the

    user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a

    fixed-location phone (landline phone). The radio frequency link

    establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile

    phone operator, which provides access to the public switched

    telephone network (PSTN). Modern mobile telephone services

    use a cellular network architecture and therefore mobile

    telephones are called cellphones (or "cell phones") in North

    America.

    In addition to telephony, digital mobile phones support a variety

    of other services, such as text messaging, multimedia messaging,

    email, Internet access (via LTE, 5G NR or Wi-Fi), short-range

    wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), satellite access


    (navigation, messaging connectivity), business applications, video

    games and digital photography. Mobile phones offering only

    basic capabilities are known as feature phones; mobile phones

    which offer greatly advanced computing capabilities are referred

    to as smartphones.

    The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin

    Cooper of Motorola in New York City on 3 April 1973, using a

    handset weighing c. 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs). In 1979, Nippon

    Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) launched the world's first

    cellular network in Japan.

    In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available

    handheld mobile phone. From 1983 to 2014, worldwide mobile

    phone subscriptions grew to over seven billion; enough to

    provide one for every person on Earth.[4] In the first quarter of

    2016, the top smartphone developers worldwide were Samsung,

    Apple and Huawei; smartphone sales represented 78 percent of

    total mobile phone sales. For feature phones (slang:

    "dumbphones") as of 2016, the top-selling brands were Samsung,

    Nokia and Alcatel.


    Mobile phones are considered an important human invention as

    it has been one of the most widely used and sold pieces of

    consumer technology. The growth in popularity has been rapid in

    some places, for example in the UK the total number of mobile

    phones overtook the number of houses in 1999. Today mobile

    phones are globally ubiquitous, and in almost half the world's

    countries, over 90% of the population own at least one.[10]

    Mobile phones are important because it helps with research and

    different activities.

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