Mobile History
Sometimes even create from anywhere at anytime what I've just described is the smartphone revolution and it's only a decade old before the smartphone in the 2000s and 90s phones were a lot less than this they just made phone calls had a basic organizer and in last years a modest camera. Very basic Internet if you were lucky but go back into the 1980s and mobile phones just did one thing make phone calls but the question is what was the first one of these primitive phones that just made phone calls what was the original phone that would become the grandfather to all the billions of phones in our pockets where did it come from who invented it.
And what's the story behind it in this block we'll take a look this is brought to you by Squarespace one of the easiest first mobile phone we have to go back to the 1960s technically at this time mobile phones did exist but only in cars and if you had one you were the boss of the town a real high flyer as it turns out since the 1940s car phones had enjoyed limited use in large cities of the United States putting a phone in a vehicle was the only way to make the mobile this is because the phones took so much power to run that only car batteries could supply it another drawback was that for a given area only 12 channels existed so most of the time you'd have to wait to use a network just to connect to a call could take 30 minutes that's just the way. It was and the way it always will be until 1968 that is in this year the Federal Communications Commission asked 18t to fix this issue AT&T then came up with a cellular architecture its aim was to break up the large areas of coverage into smaller ones so that multiple people could use their phones in their cars at the same time regular mobile systems use a central high power transmitter to serve an entire city but this way only one telephone call can be handled on a radio voice path at one time amps makes many more radio channels available at one time to many more customers by using a number of low power transmitters each transmitter is the heart of its own separate area or cell as a vehicle drives from one cell to another advanced electronic equipment at a central location called a mobile telephone switching office automatically transfers the call by telephone line to another cell without the caller knowing it I didn't have my phone would be disaster.
I don't know what I do really have you back to coming off the tall ways looking for a phone customers yelling screaming where are you why haven't you called why don't you care around the same time Motorola had a car phone division and didn't want AT&T to have a monopoly on products that could take advantage of this new system motorola fear that this would be the end of their mobile business if they didn't do anything so they decided to develop a phone to utilize this new cell technology and asked a man by the name of Martin Cooper to speed have the project in 1972 he got started the thing was there was a lot of riskier because at the time Motorola didn't really have the capital to absorb any failures if they spent a whole bunch of money on this project and it failed it could spell the end for Motorola AT&T on the other hand were giants they could throw as much money as they wanted without worrying.
It was David versus Goliath one day while thinking about this problem Martin Cooper recalled a comic strip called Dick Tracy it usually involved the main character talking into a mobile wristwatch he is an ad from the 1960s depicting a toy version of the watch Tracy the kids commend kids it's here at last the new Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio that keeps you in constant touch with your buddies broadcast from room to room and even house to house no wires needed yet voices traveled back and forth radio on the open road from one bike to another or when out hiking this gave Martin an idea and he began to think about the problem differently. why assign a number to a desk a home a building a car or even a place at all why not assign it to a person you can be connected wherever you are to whoever you wanted this was a revolutionary idea with this thought cupid defied the industry's narrow vision of car phones and went for the idea of a personal portable form of communication now that he had the vision all he had to do was set his team up to build it but could this even be done nobody knew Martin was banking on a brand new technology that could make this vision a reality the microprocessor it was a tiny chip that could do the same thing as many Khafre and components with much less space and much less power consumption surprisingly by March of 73 Cooper and his team had a working prototype on April 3rd in 1973 Martin introduced the DynaTAC phone at a press conference in New York City to make sure that his phone actually worked before the press conference he decided to place the very first public cell phone call he decided to call an engineer called Joel Engel....
Sometimes even create from anywhere at anytime what I've just described is the smartphone revolution and it's only a decade old before the smartphone in the 2000s and 90s phones were a lot less than this they just made phone calls had a basic organizer and in last years a modest camera. Very basic Internet if you were lucky but go back into the 1980s and mobile phones just did one thing make phone calls but the question is what was the first one of these primitive phones that just made phone calls what was the original phone that would become the grandfather to all the billions of phones in our pockets where did it come from who invented it.
And what's the story behind it in this block we'll take a look this is brought to you by Squarespace one of the easiest first mobile phone we have to go back to the 1960s technically at this time mobile phones did exist but only in cars and if you had one you were the boss of the town a real high flyer as it turns out since the 1940s car phones had enjoyed limited use in large cities of the United States putting a phone in a vehicle was the only way to make the mobile this is because the phones took so much power to run that only car batteries could supply it another drawback was that for a given area only 12 channels existed so most of the time you'd have to wait to use a network just to connect to a call could take 30 minutes that's just the way. It was and the way it always will be until 1968 that is in this year the Federal Communications Commission asked 18t to fix this issue AT&T then came up with a cellular architecture its aim was to break up the large areas of coverage into smaller ones so that multiple people could use their phones in their cars at the same time regular mobile systems use a central high power transmitter to serve an entire city but this way only one telephone call can be handled on a radio voice path at one time amps makes many more radio channels available at one time to many more customers by using a number of low power transmitters each transmitter is the heart of its own separate area or cell as a vehicle drives from one cell to another advanced electronic equipment at a central location called a mobile telephone switching office automatically transfers the call by telephone line to another cell without the caller knowing it I didn't have my phone would be disaster.
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| History of Mobile |
It was David versus Goliath one day while thinking about this problem Martin Cooper recalled a comic strip called Dick Tracy it usually involved the main character talking into a mobile wristwatch he is an ad from the 1960s depicting a toy version of the watch Tracy the kids commend kids it's here at last the new Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio that keeps you in constant touch with your buddies broadcast from room to room and even house to house no wires needed yet voices traveled back and forth radio on the open road from one bike to another or when out hiking this gave Martin an idea and he began to think about the problem differently. why assign a number to a desk a home a building a car or even a place at all why not assign it to a person you can be connected wherever you are to whoever you wanted this was a revolutionary idea with this thought cupid defied the industry's narrow vision of car phones and went for the idea of a personal portable form of communication now that he had the vision all he had to do was set his team up to build it but could this even be done nobody knew Martin was banking on a brand new technology that could make this vision a reality the microprocessor it was a tiny chip that could do the same thing as many Khafre and components with much less space and much less power consumption surprisingly by March of 73 Cooper and his team had a working prototype on April 3rd in 1973 Martin introduced the DynaTAC phone at a press conference in New York City to make sure that his phone actually worked before the press conference he decided to place the very first public cell phone call he decided to call an engineer called Joel Engel....
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