Britannica defines a smartphone as a mobile telephone with a built-in LCD screen, personal information management programs like a calendar and address book, and an operating system that allows other software to be installed for functions like web browsing, email, music, and video. Smartphones have evolved from large, bulky devices considered a luxury to small, compact phones that are essential commodities in modern life. It is estimated that the number of smartphone users in India will reach over 760 million by 2021. The document then provides a timeline of the evolution of communication technologies from 1876 to the modern smartphone beginning with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
Britannica defines a smartphone as a mobile telephone with a built-in LCD screen, personal information management programs like a calendar and address book, and an operating system that allows other software to be installed for functions like web browsing, email, music, and video. Smartphones have evolved from large, bulky devices considered a luxury to small, compact phones that are essential commodities in modern life. It is estimated that the number of smartphone users in India will reach over 760 million by 2021. The document then provides a timeline of the evolution of communication technologies from 1876 to the modern smartphone beginning with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
Britannica defines a smartphone as a mobile telephone with a built-in LCD screen, personal information management programs like a calendar and address book, and an operating system that allows other software to be installed for functions like web browsing, email, music, and video. Smartphones have evolved from large, bulky devices considered a luxury to small, compact phones that are essential commodities in modern life. It is estimated that the number of smartphone users in India will reach over 760 million by 2021. The document then provides a timeline of the evolution of communication technologies from 1876 to the modern smartphone beginning with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
Britannica defines a smartphone as a mobile telephone with a built-in LCD screen, personal information management programs like a calendar and address book, and an operating system that allows other software to be installed for functions like web browsing, email, music, and video. Smartphones have evolved from large, bulky devices considered a luxury to small, compact phones that are essential commodities in modern life. It is estimated that the number of smartphone users in India will reach over 760 million by 2021. The document then provides a timeline of the evolution of communication technologies from 1876 to the modern smartphone beginning with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1/ 1
Britannica defines Smartphone as a mobile telephone with a display screen (typically a liquid crystal
display, or LCD), built-in personal information management programs (such as an electronic calendar and address book) typically found in a personal digital assistant (PDA), and an operating system (OS) that allows other computer software to be installed for Web browsing, e-mail, music, video, and other applications. A smartphone may be thought of as a handheld computer integrated within a mobile telephone (Hosch, 2020). The current day modern smartphones have changed a lot along the way in many different ways. What was once large, bulky and was considered a luxury product, has now become small, compact, and aesthetically pleasing by design. It is by far one of the most essential commodities in our urban life that we cannot live without, and its evolution has taken the economic market by storm. In fact, it is estimated that the number of smartphone users in India would reach over 760 million in 2021 (Department, 2021). The history and evolution of the smartphone is important to understand because it gives us a bird’s eye view of our humble journey from the 1940s. 1.1 History of Smartphone The many benefits of telecommunication technology has aided the birth of the first smartphone in 2007. The chronology of timeline of the first comprehensive smartphones began in January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced for the first time by Apple. There were many predecessors to the iPhone prior to this however, iPhone is seen as the first smartphone as it presented itself as an all-encompassing personal device which could cater to the personal and official needs of the user. Arthur (Arthur, 2012), in his article ‘The History of Smartphones: TimeLine’ has elicited the same. Kim (Kim, 2011), in his journal paper titled ‘The Apple iPhone Shock in Korea’ has more accurately divided the history of the smartphone into two main eras: (1) pre-iPhone and (2) post-iPhone. 2 Let us briefly look into the evolution of communication from landline to smartphones.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bells first telephone
• 1905 – Strowger – 1 st phone with ability to dial out rather than going through an operator
• 1950s – Rotary Phones – Use of rotary dial
• 1970 – Introduction of Videophone
• 1980 – TEG Telecar CD – Introduction of first mobile phone (with battery attached)
• 1983 – Motorola DynaTAC – One of the first Cell phone introduced in brick form
