The mobile phone has become the most ubiquitous computing device in the world, surpassing other technologies like computers, televisions, and landline phones. The document traces the evolution of mobile phones from the early analog systems of the 1970s and 1980s to the digital 2G networks of the 1990s and 3G networks that enabled internet access in the 2000s. The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 is described as a major turning point that established touchscreens and app stores as the dominant design of smartphones, fueling unprecedented growth in mobile applications and transforming how people use mobile devices.
5. 400M daily circulations of all newspapers
800M registered cars
900M total cable/satellite TV subscribers
1.1B of all types of computers (PC, netbooks...)
1.2B total landline phones
1.5B total TV sets
1.7B total unique holders of credit cards
2.1B total unique holders of bank accounts
3.9B total FM radios in use
12. In 2011, there were 48 million
people in the world who have a
mobile phone but do not have
electricity at home
Mobile Phones
provide safety
Cisco,
January
2011
14. Early Systems
The First Cell phone (1973)
Name:
Motorola
Dyna-‐Tac
Size:
9
x
5
x
1.75
inches
Weight:
2.5
pounds
Display:
None
Number
of
Circuit
Boards:
30
Talk
time:
35
minutes
Recharge
Time:
10
hours
Features:
Talk,
listen,
dial
17. Base stations connect to
Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MTSO
SID – System identification
Code
SIM-cards
Cellular Networks
18. Handoff
Calls are automatically moved from
one cell to the next
MTSO controls the switch
Roaming
Connecting from one phone company
to another
Cellular Networks
19. Lessons Learned: Cellular Phones
▪ Mobile phones provide safety
▪ The most common device of all
▪ Mobile phones are not practical until 1980s
due to size of technology – Adjacent
Possible
▪ The invention of the microchip played
crucial role in the development of cell
phones
23. Early systems were in Bahrain, US, Japan and in
the Nordic countries
First international system
was NMT in the Nordic
Frequency Division
Multiple Access - FDMA
1G Analog
24. Q2 When the first mobile phones become
possible, how does the market evolve?
25. NMT in Nordics
AMPS in the US
TACS in UK
C-Nets in West Germany
Radiocom 2000 in France
RTMI/RTMS in Italy
1G Analog
26. Q3 What are the characteristics of the
first mobile phones and who where
the users?
40. Texting
Short Message System allowed 160 letters
Became an accidental killer app –
messages, chat, ring tones
First message sent 03.12.1992:
“Merry Christmas”
41. Lessons Learned: Cellular Phones
▪ Cars became the first platform for phones
▪ First phones are analog
▪ Multiple standard – each country invents its
own
– Problem with standards (history repeats itself?)
▪ Roaming problems in Europe call for a
standard
▪ Digital standard developed in Europe, G2
▪ US does not have roaming problems and
gets stuck in G1
43. Mobile networks and the Internet start to
converge
1G and 2G are circuit switched – fine for voice
The Internet is packet-switched
3G
44. 3G Packet Switching
IMT – 2000 was a global standard for 3G
mobile communications defined in mid-1990s
Goals:
Available 2000
Data rage 2000 kbps
Frequencies in the 2000 Mhz region
45. 2000s
More
data
128+
Kbps
GPSR,
EDGE,
UMTS,
CDMA
Downloading 3 min. MP3 song:
11 sec. – 1,5 min.
3G Packet Switching
46. More bandwidth, more applications
Email, Images, music, movies, streaming
Based on Code Division
Multiple Access – CDMA
3G Packet Switching
97. Worldwide tablet sales are
predicted to grow by more than
400% over a two-year period,
reaching 81.3 million units in
2012.
Tablets
99. The “mobile web” is just
the web – there is only
one web. It’s just
displayed in multiple of
screen sizes
Source:
The
Next
Big
Thing:
Mobile,
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Can they do it again?
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