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DO YOU KNOW WHAT CELL PHONE CAN DO TO YOUR HEALTH!?

DO YOU KNOW WHAT CELL PHONE CAN DO TO YOUR HEALTH!?

1. Why is there concern that cell phones may cause cancer or other health problems?

There are three main reasons why people are concerned that cell phones (also known as “wireless” or “mobile” telephones) might have the potential to cause certain types of cancer or other health problems:

• Cell phones emit radiofrequency energy (radio waves). Tissues nearest to where the phone is held can absorb this energy.
• The number of cell phone users has increased rapidly. As of 2010, cell phone subscriptions in the US hit 303 million, nearly threefold increase from the 110 million users in 2000.
• Number of phone calls per day increase dramatically, as well as the length of each call, and the amount of time people use cell phones have increased.

2. What can cell phone users do to reduce their exposure to radiofrequency energy?

The FDA and FCC have suggested some steps that concerned cell phone users can take to reduce their exposure to radiofrequency energy:

• Reserve the use of cell phones for shorter conversations or for times when a landline phone is not available.
• Use a hands-free device, which places more distance between the phone and the head of the user.

Hands-free kits reduce the amount of radiofrequency energy exposure to the head because the antenna, which is the source of energy, is not placed against the head.

The Customer's Experience on Using Android, Blackberry and Apple (2008-2012)

This time I had an interview with my friend, Rachma. She's using three types of mobile phones at the same time. 1 from Blackberry, 1 from Apple and 1 from Samsung. Yes, the three top mobile phones company at this era.

Firstly, she is sharing the disadvantages & advantages of using Blackberry. She is using Blackberry Curve 8520 at the moment. I put in the picture on the left hand corner for you to see.

Q: What do you feel is the advantage of using Blackberry?

A: The Advantages of using Blackberry are the amazing features provided by Blackberry Messenger (BBM), it allows easy access of communication between people across borders. Since my parents live overseas, it is easier for me to communicate with them using BBM. BBM provide instant reply that makes communication much more easier. It also provide me an easy access towards my email, as it synchronize my mail and chat engines every second.

Q: What is the disadvantage of Blackberry?

A: I feel that Blackberry systems are lacking behind, comparing it towards Apple and Android. The Blackberry World, which is the place to download applications are a bit slow when downloading applications. Blackberry also frequently slows down when you have added too much BBM contacts.

Secondly, she is sharing the disadvantages & advantages of using iPhone. She is using iPhone 3Gs at the moment. I put in the picture on the left hand corner for you to see.

Q: What do you feel is the advantage of using iPhone?

A: I used iPhone on 2009, when I see lots of people in Australia had started to use iPhone. I used iPhone because of iTunes, making it really easier for listening to songs. It works on both ways for me, like and iPod + a phone. Its easier for me to zoom through files and the quality of the pictures still looks great. It also was a tools for me to play games, before Samsung S3 came out.

Q: What is the disadvantage of iPhone?

A: 1 feature that i dislike of iPhone is the push notifications. It seems that its lagging behind in terms of receiving chats, updates as well as email. I have to wait for 15 minutes at least, for it to synchronize and for me to receive my emails. I also dislike how most of the apps such as whatsapp requires me to pay, while its made for free in Samsung and Blackberry.

The third and last one,  she is sharing the disadvantages & advantages of using Samsung . She is using Samsung Galaxy S3 at the moment. I put in the picture on the left hand corner for you to see.

 Q: What do you feel is the advantage of using Samsung?

A: I feel like Samsung is the best thing ever. I fell in love with the 8 Megapixels camera it provides, it was much more cleaner and clearer. I love the free apps that Samsung gives, as I feel it was quite generous. I like Samsung Notes where I could scribble on my handwriting when i feel lazy on using keypad. 

Q: What is the disadvantage of using Samsung?

A: I just had one disadvantages, its that on campus when i enter certain area without signals, it continues to display signs that i don't have signals, even if i already move to other area that have signals. When that happen, i have to restart it all them time. And i thing that is the most annoying disadvantages of  my Samsung phone.

Alright guys, that's it.. I try to provide real customer's experience so that hopefully you will gain a useful insight from this experience. Sorry that i keep it short, as i was doing it at my business law lectures.

PS: Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, took it during lectures.

Enjoy!

From Infrared to...... Camera, Bluetooth & 3G? (2000-2004)

The pictures on the left hand side, show you the ranging models of mobile phones from the year 1999 to 2004.

What i would like to emphasize is that, the comparison of my personal experience with using both of the phones in the 1999 era, and the one in 2004.

You see the mobile phones on the top 2nd to right, yes the red one. Its from Nokia the series of 8210. I remember using it on my primary school era, enjoying the ever so famous snake games!

The only mode of transferring data such as phone numbers, or business cards were only through infrared. and sometimes.... it didn't work, or take such a long time to send. And it only allows you to store 200 contacts only.

Another phones that I will talk about is the phone on the bottom left, it's from Nokia 6630 series. It has much advancement than the 8210 series. It allows you to send files through both Bluetooth and infrared, as well as allowing media card system for you to easily save media files on your media card. It also have camera features, which are hugely famous around 2004 to 2006. It also contains 3G system which is still quite rare to use on that time, but are hugely famous around this days.

Top 5 Countries Cell Phone Usage (2012)

In this 5 top countries with huge numbers of population, we could see some interesting figures of mobile phone users. Take United States for an example, with 310 million populations, it accounts for 327 million cell phones users. That stated the facts that estimate 1 person in United States are carrying 2 cell phones, or more.

 I read an article recently from China Daily, and it stated that according to Analysys International, a Beijing based research company, the number of cell phone users in China are subjected to increase by 1.1 billion at the end of this year. With China being the number 1 world's biggest population, they will play a big impact in increasing numbers of world's cell phone users. Currently depending on the latest results in June 2012, showing the total number of cell phone users in China is 1.05 billion.

 In a while, I'm sure we'll be able to witness another growing population of cell phone users in China!

The most and first "......" during 90s

The most significant phones

1994 - Nokia 2110
The Nokia 2110 is the unsung hero of mobile phone history. It was the smallest, lightest GSM phone around and packed with useful features. The Nokia 2110 became the definitive business phone of the mid 90s.

1998 - Nokia 5110

The Nokia 5110 turned communication into fashion. With customisable fascias and text messaging, this phone transformed mobiles from dull business tools to fashion accessories.

     

1992 - first consumer phones

The first consumers were interested in easy to use phones for emergency calls only. The Personal Phone was Motorola's first UK consumer phone.

1993 - the first One2One phones

With the promise of free evening and weekend calls, Mercury targeted consumers with the M200 and M300 phones.

1999 - world's first internet phone

In February 1999 Nokia announced the world's first phone with a WAP(wireless application protocol) browser. Making it the first phone capable of browsing the internet. Not only that, it had the ultra cool Matrix inspired sliding case, making it instantly the most desirable handset. 

Smallest and lightest mobile phones

1993 - Sony CMH-333 - 235g

Sony miniaturised the transistor radio in the 60s and the Walkman in the 80s. They gave mobile phones the same treatment in the 90s.

1994 - Nokia 2110 - 235g

The Nokia 2110 was the smallest, lightest GSM phone around when it was launched in January 1994. 

1998 - Motorola v3688 - 83g

Motorola did it again with the v3688, smaller and lighter than even the StarTAC, it was immediately adopted by the rich and famous. 

1999 - Nokia 8210 - 79g

Nokia's smallest and lightest phone. When Nokia launched it at the Paris Fashion Show in 1999 it became the most desirable consumer phone on the planet.

Phones from 90s are hard to use.

Nowadays, people put their phones in their pockets and use them whenever they want to use. It only takes them few seconds to make a phone call. However, back to 90s, the phones are very big, such as Motorola, people used to carry in pocket. There is a video below, and apparently they're hard to use.

How much did mobile phones cost in the 80s and 90s?

(1990-2000)
How much did mobile phones cost in the 80s and 90s?
New technology is always expensive, manufacturers need to recoup years' worth of research costs. Back in the 80s, you would have to spend £3000 to get world's first hand portable phone, the Motorola 8000X. As the technology moved on, and more competitors entered this new market, dealers had to cut prices in order to have more market share. In 1990, the price of NEC P3 was £1499, which was half price of the phone at 80s. In late 90s, the prices had dropped significantly, from £1499 to £500.

Here is the development of the mobile phone, since 90s, phones are getting smaller, thinner and cheaper. 

(1983-1989)

Prevalent brands of 1G cellular phone

 

1. Motorola (Made by U.S.A Motorola company)

   

 2. Excel (Developed by British Technophone company)

3. Mitsubishi Roamer (Made by Japan Mitsubishi)

4. Nokia (Produced by Nokia Oyj corporation in Finland)

5. NEC (Created by Japan NEC corporation)

Dominance of 1G cellular - Motorola

In the cellular world throughout 1980s, Motorola had been dominating the industry despite the significant challenges made by Nokia, Excel phones, NEC and so on. Motorola's production and sales during that time had accounted for more than half of the cell phone market share. The dominance of mobile phone industry was majorly contributed by the company's good reputation by numerous big inventions of mostly communication devices since 1940s. Most of the inventions were acclaimed as significant contributions to the world and some of them were even described as remarkable events of human taking great leap forward. Motorola developed the first Walkie-talkie in the world in 1940 and later designated as the producer of hand-held  AM-SCR-536 radios for U.S military in WWII which was vital for Allied communication. The company also began making television in 1950.  In 1960, it introduced the world's first "large-screen" (19-inch), transistorized, cordless portable television. In 1963 it, introduced the world's first truly rectangular color TV. Since 1958, Motorola was the primary provider of communication equipments for NASA space ships for decades. In 1969, it was this year Neil Armstrong made the first ever human landing on moon and spoke the famous words "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" from the Moon on a Motorola transceiver. As we can see that Motorola created numerous products for use by general public, businesses and government and every innovation made significant contributions to the communication industry which became essential use for mankind. Hence, these efforts assisted Motorola to claim the top spot in communication world. 

(1973-)Thanks to his development in 1973 for the cellular pleasure we are enjoying today.


Jesus of Cell Phone

Computer has an attribution to  Jesus (Dennis Ritchie and Bill Gates), so does cell phone just with a different name on the same title. So, there is a question: Who is this Jesus of cell phone, who invented it ? The cell phones and smart phones that you are using today are the grandchildren of the this creator's invention. 


Who is the "Jesus" of mobile phone? (Tips: Refer to introduction part or the image below)

Dr. Martin Cooper in cellular phone development

Dr. Martin Cooper(born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American former Vice President of Motorola and General Manager of systems division in the 1970s. Cooper served in the Navy before during WWII period, after the war ended, he left the navy and took a job at Teletype Communication and continue pursing his studies in University. In 1950, he pursued Bachelor's degree of Electrical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1954, after completing the degree, he was hired by Motorola, the place that directed him towards world's biggest invention later and went on to earn a Master's from IIT in 1957. After 13 years of journey in Motorola, Cooper was put to be in charge of its car phone division where he started leading Motorola's cellular research. Cooper foreseen the prospect of mobile phone not only viable in a car, but also able to be a small, light enough and portable device. Thanks to years of research and development in portable products directed by Cooper and new technologies from all over the company, when the pressure was on, it took only 90 days in 1973 to create the first portable cellular 800 MHz phone prototype.


First cellular call in the world made by Martin Cooper

Cooper's famous quote:

"People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973."

Martin Cooperadded, "As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life."

In 1973, when the company installed the base station to handle the first public demonstration of a phone call over the cellular network, Motorola was trying to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to allocate frequency space to private companies for use in the emerging technology of cellular communications. After some preliminary testing in Washington for the F.C.C., Mr. Cooper and Motorola took the phone technology to New York to show the public.

On April 3, 1973, standing on a street near the Manhattan Hilton, Mr. Cooper decided to attempt a private call before going to a press conference upstairs in the hotel. He picked up the 2-pound Motorola handset called the Dyna-Tac and pushed the "off hook" button. The phone call came alive, connecting Mr. Cooper with the base station on the roof of the Burlington Consolidated Tower (now the Alliance Capital Building) and into the land-line system. To the bewilderment of some passers-by, he dialed the number and held the phone to his ear.

Following the 1973, public demonstration, using a brick-like 30-ounce phone, Cooper started the 10-year process of bringing the portable cell phone to market. Motorola introduced the 16-ounce "DynaTAC" phone into commercial service in 1983, with each phone costing the consumer $3,500. It took seven additional years before there were a million subscribers in the United States. Today, there are more cellular subscribers than wireline phone subscribers in the world, with mobile phones weighing as little as 3 ounces.

(1983-1989)

Nicknamed as "大哥大", "Big Brother" in English by Chinese Community

Circled in image: The huge Motorola Cellphone
Content of image: The person with grey jacket on the right is a mafia leader, chatting with his men( all on the left)  had his cellphone on the table.

The nickname of "Big Brother" was originally how men in triad society of Hong Kong address their leaders or bosses. Only those gang leaders within the association could afford and are eligible to carry cell phones in the 80s. Mafia leaders carrying a cell phone on hand often slowly became a significant icon of 1980s cell phone. Likewise, cell phone had emerged as a symbol of every gang leaders. Hence, the huge device was given a nickname aligned with “Big Brother” or formally "大哥大".

A favourite tools used by triad members for violence

Circled in image: The huge cellphone

Content of image: The offender, a triad leader, is using his cellphone as the emergency weapon to hit his opponent as he was suddenly attacked by his rivals when stepping out from a restaurant.


A newly discovered use of mobile phone which is, convenient weapon to use while unexpectedly attacked by someone else and not prepared at all. 

(1983-1989)

Cellphone as a symbol of "wealth" in 1980s


Types of people who could afford cellphone at that time:

   Businessman

Celebrity: Hollywood star "Michael Douglas"

            

 Mafia Leaders

                     

Mistresses supported by some Rich Bastards (need a cellphone as a convenient tool to arrange for secret meetings)

Mobile phones during 1980s were very expensive, priced at USD$3995 in average. Therefore, not everyone could afford to buy a cellphone at that time whereas, in the 21st century, not having a cellphone is unusual. People who could mostly afford a cell phone were truly wealthy and they were businessman, celebrities, mafia leaders and mistresses. The device turned out to be very useful for businessmen and evolved as a necessity to them as the tool helped improve the quality of business communication. Likewise, the triad leaders took advantage of cell phone to enhance the system of their daily operations. Celebrities always have enough cash surpluses to consume luxury products, thus, started to include cell phone into their list since it could improve their standard of living. Mobile phone for the mistresses, comparatively, is also a necessity tool for entertainment activity(contacting with their rich boyfriends for secret perhaps sexual meeting arrangement?).

(1983-1989)

First Generation Cell Phone: The "Huge Phone" in 1980s

    
    

In 1983, Motorola revealed the truly first portable mobile phone to the world. The product was named as Motorola DynaTAC 800X, approved by FCC in the United States. The cellular technology was developed by Motorola for decades and they took 10 years since 1973, the successful attempt of mobile phone call, to commercialize this particular phone. This operation costed them over 100 million dollars(dollar at that time). The DynaTAC 800X was considered extremely lightweight for its time and only weighed 785g (equivalent to 28 ounces). It was 300 x 44 x 89 mm and famous for its brick-like shape. The invention came under large development with the help of Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola. This cell phone only provided a talk time of just half an hour and needed to take 10 hours to charge. Despite the low productivity of the phone, consumer demand was strong and waiting lists was in thousands.

Features of cell phone in 1980s:

1.      Function: Phone talk with another long distant cell phone user.

2.      Screen: LED display.

3.      Phone memory: Only able to store 30 numbers in the cell phone.

4.      Battery lifespan: 30 minutes (non-stop talking on phone)

5.      Battery standby time: 8 hours

6.      Recharge time: 10 hours.

7.      Weight: 785 g.

8.      Size: 300 x 44 x 89 mm

Cell Phone in car and briefcase

From 1983 till the end of 1980s, mobile phone grew in popularity through the innovations in cellular networks that were able to handle phone calls in either one area or hand them off to other areas. While not all cell phones are made to be carried on hand, most of them were actually installed permanently in the car. The term of “car phone” was more popular than the mobile phone from 1970s till late of 1980s. Besides car phones, there were also few models built into briefcase to hold large batteries to make many phone calls.

Mobile Phone Evolution

The fun video below will show you guys a cool way of phone transformation from a CLAY!

 

Evolution of Mobile Phones

 We decided to put this one in, to show an exciting modification of music and camera into mobile phones, which is an impossible challenge to be achieved in the early 80s.

This flash is created on 2010, and shows fun facts on cell phone users all over the world! Furthermore, it also described several amazing features such as 3G and maps which is nothing wrong, but with nowadays in 2012 we knows it improved to 4G!

You could play with it, read through the facts and just simply have fun with it!

Future blog

On the left side, we include the current leading phone companies such as Samsung, Apple etc. In the middle area, we will be posting information about phones from 80s to smartphones. On the right side, we include 4 topics that we are going to present.