Mobile phone

(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.