Cellphones, hand phones, mobiles or wireless phones, they all refer to the same mobile communication technology designating the same concept. Although first designed to support the standard voice functions specific to a regular phone, such devices have increased their complexity in time, receiving more and moreadditional services and accessories. Thus, a whole range of other functions are available: besides normal messeging, you can get instant SMS, listen to the radio, watch TV, check your email, play games, browse the web, access the GPS, take photos or shoot videos with the inbuilt camera and so on. Wireless phones have all the features you can imagine and more.

The real father of the wireless phones is considered to be the Motorola researcher Martin Cooper who invented the first handheld device for mobile communication independent from a vehicle setting. The first cellular network ever launched in a city was NTT in Japan, as early as 1979. Then, the automatic networks started their development in the North European countries in the mid-eighties. The commercial technology of wireless phones has come a long way since then, with great boosts of growth in the cellular system and the technological systems they rely on.

Real competition between wireless phones and their producers started in the early 90s in the real sense of the word since that was the time when the GSM standard was first introduced. It took very little to pass from SMS messaging to conversations, and ever since, cellulars have climbed in the top of the communication pyramid. To understand the ample exposure of the phenomenon, we can refer to the drop in the camera sales with the introduction of the built-in cell high quality cameras that enable the high technical standards.

From a certain point onwards, the ways of the wireless phones evolution and that of the Internet no longer ran in parallel but started to overlap. This is how modern facilities like web browsing, email connection, fax, online video access and lots of others became available. Digital technology also heavily contributed to the invention of sophisticated batteries and the size reduction of all the cellphone components. With all the incredible level of complexity things have reached today, one has to wonder where the road is taking us further. Will we try to make things simple again or bask in.

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