Making Life More Convenient
For this assignment, we were asked to compose an essay on something that has evolved over the years, a paradigm shift. We are all aware of how much everything changes everyday, and this was a big component of the essay. After the essay was finished, we then had to present our essay in a speech form, the only thing we had was our powerpoint which mostly consisted of images and a one page paper of main ideas.
Making Life More Convenient
Let’s take a trip into the past, dating back to 1972, 40 years into the history. To get you familiar with this particular year, Hurricane Agnes killed 117 natives of the US East Coast, an Arab gunman at the Munich Olympics murdered 11 Israeli athletes. Richard Nixon was leading the United States of America, and the Godfather was the “hit movie,” along with ABBA, the Eagles, John Lennon, and Elton John powering the music industry (The Year 1972 From The People History). In this same year, a man named Martin Cooper called his coworker, Rudy Krolopp and said, “We’ve got to build a portable phone,” at this exact moment, the world changed, and little did anyone know, it would never be the same again (Green). The evolution of cell phones is something that almost everyone has taken into account, but have they realized the exact birth of the mobile phone industry? The evolution of cell phones is an extreme factor in what has made the world what it is today, if it weren’t for the very first cell phone along with the many installments of cell phones, the world would not be what we know it as.
In 1983, after eleven years of marketing and producing, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X worked its way into the spotlight. This 2-pound, $3,995 “portable” cellphone was referred to as “the Brick”, and was able to store 30 phone numbers, and took ten hours to recharge (Green). “The Brick” was the very first installation and step into mobile phones being what they are today. Rudy Krolopp was given six weeks to come up with a working model/prototype, the reason for this being because Motorola didn’t want to be shut out by AT&T who was deliberating whether they should be allowed to set up a wireless network, they were also considering making wireless phones. Motorola could not afford to be shut out by their competition, so making a prototype was one of their only options. So after 11 years, and $100 million, “the Brick” was put on the market, people were absolutely stunned that you could actually talk to someone else on a phone that was not mounted or plugged into the wall (Green).
Jumping ahead six years came the Motorola MicroTAC 9800X. This phone is referred to as the first truly portable phone because before this, most “portable” phones were installed as car phones considering the fact they couldn’t fit into jacket pockets (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). The design of this phone was still bulky, but it was smaller in size then “the brick” and resembled more of a “clamshell” phone but the only thing that would shut would be the cover over the keypad. With this phone, it became apparent that the size of phones were starting to decrease, making them a lot more portable and user friendly.
On December 3, 1992 in the United Kingdom, the very first SMS text message was sent over Vodafone (a global telecommunications company whose headquarters are in the UK.) This SMS was sent using a personal computer known as the Orbital 901 Handset, which resembles what we would refer to as a landline phone. This text read “Merry Christmas,” two words so many people know and have heard, but this time it was different, for the sole reason of being sent over an SMS text message (Myers). Very few people expected text messaging to get as big as it has become today when those two words were sent. The inventors of text messaging were experimenting, an experiment that clearly was successful. Text messaging is something that almost everyone does on a daily basis, because it’s even more convenient then calling someone on the phone or even having face-to-face conversations with someone, but does that make texting bad? For some, people despise texting because they think you should have face-to-face conversations with someone instead of having your head down looking at a phone using shorthand words. For others, they look at texting as a way to pass time, a way to catch up with a friend while being able to do something else. So which is it? In my eyes, I feel like texting is something that has affected our world positively, for instance, in 2010, SMS texts generated $114.6 billion in revenues worldwide, and experts have estimated that over the next five years different mobile networks will earn up to $726 billion from text messaging (Myers). Those both are enormous amounts of money, so if that many people are partaking in texting, it has to be something somewhat good.
June 11, 1997 was a huge step for the mobile phone industry. A previously known phone, the “Motorola StarTAC” had a small, point and shoot camera inserted into it. What made June 11 especially important is because the designer of this phone, Phillipe Kahn (Murphy), took and wirelessly transmitted the very first picture on a cell phone of his newborn daughter to 2,000 people around the world (Zhang). After this phone was created, it was hard to find a phone, which didn’t have a camera in it, and nowadays people are relying heavily on the camera function of their phones. I know from personal experience, I would not be able to live without the camera on my phone; I have close to 1,800 pictures on my phone because it’s a lot easier to pull out your phone instead of pulling out a camera and snapping the memory. I feel as if the camera phone was one of the best inventions and smartest installment in the mobile phone industry, and I am sure many others would not disagree.
Jumping right before the turn of the new century, came a phone that not only changed the face of the cell phone industry, but also a phone that I see people still using today, thirteen years after it came out. The Nokia 3210, was not a clamshell phone, it was referred to as the “candy bar,” because it was just a rectangle, it did not fold over, slide, or turn. At 153 grams, this phone was a lot lighter then the “Brick” and it was aimed towards the teenagers who were lucky enough to get a cell phone. What stands out with the 3210 is, being the first phone that featured an internal antenna, along with the first phone that was capable of sending picture text messages, and also coming equipped with T9 text messaging, along with three pre-installed games (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). This phone was looked at as more unique because it came in seven different colors, so you didn’t have to stick with a plain black phone, you had many different options within this phone. Each of these individual features made the Nokia 3210 a hit, selling 160 million units (Montano), something that completely shocked not only Nokia, but also the world.
Another tremendous breakthrough with Motorola was in 2004 with the Razor V3. At first, Motorola had many problems with this phone because of its wafer-thin size, Motorola was confused as to how to get antennas or batteries that small, and they were unsure of how to get the keypad to function correctly (Green). After months of deliberating, and going over prototype after prototype they finally were able to make the Razor V3, equipped with an internal antenna. This phone was originally marketed as a fashion phone, but after a year Motorola decided to lower the price and it ended up being extremely successful. The Razor came in various different colors, which also increased the demand for this phone. Within four years, Motorola sold 130 million units, making the Razor the bestselling clamshell phone in the world, and to this day it still is (Top 10 Most Bought Cellphones in History). The Razor was one of my very first phones, and to this day it was one of my favorites.
A year after the Razor worked its way into being the best selling clamshell phone, HTC came out with the HTC Universal. This was a huge step for HTC because they had never really marketed a cell phone that made any headlines. The universal was the first 3G-pocket PC phone which meant it had Windows mobile installed on it. The design of the universal was like the candy bar design, but the entire front was a touch screen, and then it flipped open to a QWERTY keyboard, coming with a stylus (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). This was the closest phone to a computer, which made it a lot more appealing to the public. People were shocked because they had no idea it was possible to have a program like Windows in a small phone, this applied greatly to business people because they were able to check their email/use Windows whenever time was convenient. Unlike the Blackberry the screen was a lot larger and what they were doing was easier to see because of the larger screen and larger keys.
Five years ago a phone was created that would change the face of mobile technology forever. In 2007, the IPhone was released. Two months after the IPhone came out, Apple announced that it had sold its first million IPhones (Skillings). It came only with 8 GB of memory, and was priced at $399 (Costello). Within this phone, there was an auto-rotate sensor, which would allow the touch-screen keyboard to automatically turn landscape when you turned the phone landscape. Also, within the text messaging area of the phone, the texts where displayed like a conversation with “instant messaging,” which made it a lot easier to keep track of what was being said within the conversation. For the first time, users were able to have their entire music library, phone, and camera at the palm of their hands. However, on the negative side, the IPhone’s battery did not last long, and the network was incredibly slow, leaving a lot of users angry and upset (Costello).
With any well selling device, there is sure to be a competition device soon after. For the IPhone, its competitor emerged in 2008, and it was known as the BlackBerry Storm. Typically the BlackBerry consisted of a keyboard with actual keys, but with the BlackBerry Storm this was the first completely touch screen BlackBerry, but the screen was designed to “click” down when you touched the screen which made touch-screen typing a lot easier (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). This competition did no justice for BlackBerry; the IPhones skyrocketed and are still skyrocketing to this day.
Throughout 2009-2012 the two leading types of phones have been the Android (which came out in 2009) and the IPhone (which is continuing to become better and better each year.) Two complete competitors of each other. Which one is better? It all depends on whom you are asking, from my personal experience I had the first installation with the Android software and it was the first Droid, and it has absolutely nothing on the IPhone. To this day, IPhones are still outselling any other phone, until the Droid crashed into the market, a study was conducted that within the first 74 days on the market the Droid actually sold 1.05 million units, more then the amount of IPhone’s sold in its first 74 days (Wauters). I still feel as if IPhones out trump Droids because in my opinion, I see more IPhones on a day-to-day basis then I see Droids, the network for IPhones is a lot better and they are with a more reliable company, but it all depends solely on the type of person you are asking. Studies have shown that more IPhones are sold than babies born everyday in the US, and in the first quarter of 2012, 37.04 million IPhones were sold (Panzarino).
Thinking back forty years regarding technology and mobile phones, you will realize that it was an entirely different world back then. Only the elite, wealthy people who had the money to pay for a mobile phone were the ones who usually ended up getting that phone. In 2012, looking around absolutely everyone has a cell phone, to be exact, in the last ten years, cell phone usage in the US has increased from 34-203 million people ("Cell Phone Statistics”), and it is becoming apparent that children at younger and younger ages are now getting cell phones. When I got my first cell phone, I was in eighth grade and it was because I was doing sports and I needed a way of telling my mom and dad I needed picked up. Statistics show that in 2009, the average child in the US gets a cell phone at the age of eight (Wilson), and I have noticed that most eight year olds that do have phones have somewhat nice and expensive phones. I think a major factor in being a child is not having a cell phone, you need to work your way up to get one, but parents are starting to give their kids whatever they want.
After researching the evolution of cell phones, I have realized that they not only have become a huge factor in everyone’s lives, but they also have become a huge factor in making the world what it is today. It is so much easier to get ahold of people, to make sure your loved ones are okay, to schedule business meetings, and even to respond to an email from a client on your phone instead of having to go to a computer. Cell phones have made life more convenient and that is why I feel like the evolution of cell phones is so incredibly important. If Martin Cooper never called Rudy Krolopp into his office on that special day in 1972, the world would be nothing it is today, and the cell phone industry would not have evolved and worked to not only better the world, but also make the world more convenient.
Works Cited
"Cell Phone Statistics." Cell Phone Statistics. ACUU Conference, 23 May 2007. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.accuconference.com/blog/Cell-Phone-Statistics.aspx>.
Costello, Sam. "First-Generation IPhone Review." About.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. http://ipod.about.com/od/iphoneproductreviews/fr/iphone_review.htm
"The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009." Web Design Blog. Web Designer Depot, 22 May 2009. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/>.
Green, Spencer. First Cell Phone a True "Brick". Associated Press, 11 Apr. 2005. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432915/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/first-cell-phone-true-brick/#.UIf_N0I1bFI>.
Ha, Peter. "Motorola DynaTAC 8000x." Time. Time, 25 Oct. 2010. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2023689_2023708_2023656,00.html>.
Montano, Jay. "160 Million Unit Selling Nokia 3210 Back on Sale!" My Nokia Blog. N.p., 28 Dec. 2010. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://mynokiablog.com/2010/12/28/160-million-unit-selling-nokia-3210-back-on-sale/>.
Murphy, Samantha. "Meet the Man Behind the Very First Camera Phone." Mashable Tech. N.p., 6 Mar. 2012. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://mashable.com/2012/03/06/philippe-kahn-camera-phone/>.
Myers, Courtney B. "The Text Message Turns 19 Years Old Today." The Next Web. Shareables, 3 Dec. 2011. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/03/the-text-message-turns-19-years-old-today/>.
Panzarino, Matthew. "There Are Now More IPhones Sold than Babies Born in the World Every Day." The Next Web. N.p., 25 Jan. 2012. Web. 28 Oct. 2012. <http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01/25/there-are-now-more-iphones-sold-than-babies-born-in-the-world-every-day/>.
Skillings, Jonathan. "Apple: 1 Million IPhones Sold." CNET News. CBS Interactive, 10 Sept. 2007. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9774593-7.html>.
"Top 10 Most Bought Cellphones in History.” The 10 Most Known. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://the10mostknown.com/top-10-most-bought-cellphones-in-history.html>.
Wauters, Robin. "Flurry: More Droid Devices than IPhones Sold in First 74 Days on The market." TechCrunch, 16 Mar. 2010. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/16/flurry-more-droid-devices-than-iphones-sold-in-first-74-days-on-the-market/>.
Wilson, Mark. "On Average, Children Get Cellphones at Age 8." Gizmodo. Gizmodo, 18 Feb. 2009. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://gizmodo.com/5156030/on-average-children-get-cellphones-at-age-8>.
"The Year 1972 From The People History." What Happened in 1972 including Pop Culture, Prices, Events and Technology. The People History, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1972.html>.
Zhang, Michael. "The First Camera Phone Photograph Was Sent in 1997." PetaPixel. N.p., 27 Sept. 2011. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.petapixel.com/2011/09/27/the-first-camera-phone-photograph-was-taken-in-1997/>.
Making Life More Convenient
Let’s take a trip into the past, dating back to 1972, 40 years into the history. To get you familiar with this particular year, Hurricane Agnes killed 117 natives of the US East Coast, an Arab gunman at the Munich Olympics murdered 11 Israeli athletes. Richard Nixon was leading the United States of America, and the Godfather was the “hit movie,” along with ABBA, the Eagles, John Lennon, and Elton John powering the music industry (The Year 1972 From The People History). In this same year, a man named Martin Cooper called his coworker, Rudy Krolopp and said, “We’ve got to build a portable phone,” at this exact moment, the world changed, and little did anyone know, it would never be the same again (Green). The evolution of cell phones is something that almost everyone has taken into account, but have they realized the exact birth of the mobile phone industry? The evolution of cell phones is an extreme factor in what has made the world what it is today, if it weren’t for the very first cell phone along with the many installments of cell phones, the world would not be what we know it as.
In 1983, after eleven years of marketing and producing, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X worked its way into the spotlight. This 2-pound, $3,995 “portable” cellphone was referred to as “the Brick”, and was able to store 30 phone numbers, and took ten hours to recharge (Green). “The Brick” was the very first installation and step into mobile phones being what they are today. Rudy Krolopp was given six weeks to come up with a working model/prototype, the reason for this being because Motorola didn’t want to be shut out by AT&T who was deliberating whether they should be allowed to set up a wireless network, they were also considering making wireless phones. Motorola could not afford to be shut out by their competition, so making a prototype was one of their only options. So after 11 years, and $100 million, “the Brick” was put on the market, people were absolutely stunned that you could actually talk to someone else on a phone that was not mounted or plugged into the wall (Green).
Jumping ahead six years came the Motorola MicroTAC 9800X. This phone is referred to as the first truly portable phone because before this, most “portable” phones were installed as car phones considering the fact they couldn’t fit into jacket pockets (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). The design of this phone was still bulky, but it was smaller in size then “the brick” and resembled more of a “clamshell” phone but the only thing that would shut would be the cover over the keypad. With this phone, it became apparent that the size of phones were starting to decrease, making them a lot more portable and user friendly.
On December 3, 1992 in the United Kingdom, the very first SMS text message was sent over Vodafone (a global telecommunications company whose headquarters are in the UK.) This SMS was sent using a personal computer known as the Orbital 901 Handset, which resembles what we would refer to as a landline phone. This text read “Merry Christmas,” two words so many people know and have heard, but this time it was different, for the sole reason of being sent over an SMS text message (Myers). Very few people expected text messaging to get as big as it has become today when those two words were sent. The inventors of text messaging were experimenting, an experiment that clearly was successful. Text messaging is something that almost everyone does on a daily basis, because it’s even more convenient then calling someone on the phone or even having face-to-face conversations with someone, but does that make texting bad? For some, people despise texting because they think you should have face-to-face conversations with someone instead of having your head down looking at a phone using shorthand words. For others, they look at texting as a way to pass time, a way to catch up with a friend while being able to do something else. So which is it? In my eyes, I feel like texting is something that has affected our world positively, for instance, in 2010, SMS texts generated $114.6 billion in revenues worldwide, and experts have estimated that over the next five years different mobile networks will earn up to $726 billion from text messaging (Myers). Those both are enormous amounts of money, so if that many people are partaking in texting, it has to be something somewhat good.
June 11, 1997 was a huge step for the mobile phone industry. A previously known phone, the “Motorola StarTAC” had a small, point and shoot camera inserted into it. What made June 11 especially important is because the designer of this phone, Phillipe Kahn (Murphy), took and wirelessly transmitted the very first picture on a cell phone of his newborn daughter to 2,000 people around the world (Zhang). After this phone was created, it was hard to find a phone, which didn’t have a camera in it, and nowadays people are relying heavily on the camera function of their phones. I know from personal experience, I would not be able to live without the camera on my phone; I have close to 1,800 pictures on my phone because it’s a lot easier to pull out your phone instead of pulling out a camera and snapping the memory. I feel as if the camera phone was one of the best inventions and smartest installment in the mobile phone industry, and I am sure many others would not disagree.
Jumping right before the turn of the new century, came a phone that not only changed the face of the cell phone industry, but also a phone that I see people still using today, thirteen years after it came out. The Nokia 3210, was not a clamshell phone, it was referred to as the “candy bar,” because it was just a rectangle, it did not fold over, slide, or turn. At 153 grams, this phone was a lot lighter then the “Brick” and it was aimed towards the teenagers who were lucky enough to get a cell phone. What stands out with the 3210 is, being the first phone that featured an internal antenna, along with the first phone that was capable of sending picture text messages, and also coming equipped with T9 text messaging, along with three pre-installed games (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). This phone was looked at as more unique because it came in seven different colors, so you didn’t have to stick with a plain black phone, you had many different options within this phone. Each of these individual features made the Nokia 3210 a hit, selling 160 million units (Montano), something that completely shocked not only Nokia, but also the world.
Another tremendous breakthrough with Motorola was in 2004 with the Razor V3. At first, Motorola had many problems with this phone because of its wafer-thin size, Motorola was confused as to how to get antennas or batteries that small, and they were unsure of how to get the keypad to function correctly (Green). After months of deliberating, and going over prototype after prototype they finally were able to make the Razor V3, equipped with an internal antenna. This phone was originally marketed as a fashion phone, but after a year Motorola decided to lower the price and it ended up being extremely successful. The Razor came in various different colors, which also increased the demand for this phone. Within four years, Motorola sold 130 million units, making the Razor the bestselling clamshell phone in the world, and to this day it still is (Top 10 Most Bought Cellphones in History). The Razor was one of my very first phones, and to this day it was one of my favorites.
A year after the Razor worked its way into being the best selling clamshell phone, HTC came out with the HTC Universal. This was a huge step for HTC because they had never really marketed a cell phone that made any headlines. The universal was the first 3G-pocket PC phone which meant it had Windows mobile installed on it. The design of the universal was like the candy bar design, but the entire front was a touch screen, and then it flipped open to a QWERTY keyboard, coming with a stylus (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). This was the closest phone to a computer, which made it a lot more appealing to the public. People were shocked because they had no idea it was possible to have a program like Windows in a small phone, this applied greatly to business people because they were able to check their email/use Windows whenever time was convenient. Unlike the Blackberry the screen was a lot larger and what they were doing was easier to see because of the larger screen and larger keys.
Five years ago a phone was created that would change the face of mobile technology forever. In 2007, the IPhone was released. Two months after the IPhone came out, Apple announced that it had sold its first million IPhones (Skillings). It came only with 8 GB of memory, and was priced at $399 (Costello). Within this phone, there was an auto-rotate sensor, which would allow the touch-screen keyboard to automatically turn landscape when you turned the phone landscape. Also, within the text messaging area of the phone, the texts where displayed like a conversation with “instant messaging,” which made it a lot easier to keep track of what was being said within the conversation. For the first time, users were able to have their entire music library, phone, and camera at the palm of their hands. However, on the negative side, the IPhone’s battery did not last long, and the network was incredibly slow, leaving a lot of users angry and upset (Costello).
With any well selling device, there is sure to be a competition device soon after. For the IPhone, its competitor emerged in 2008, and it was known as the BlackBerry Storm. Typically the BlackBerry consisted of a keyboard with actual keys, but with the BlackBerry Storm this was the first completely touch screen BlackBerry, but the screen was designed to “click” down when you touched the screen which made touch-screen typing a lot easier (The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009). This competition did no justice for BlackBerry; the IPhones skyrocketed and are still skyrocketing to this day.
Throughout 2009-2012 the two leading types of phones have been the Android (which came out in 2009) and the IPhone (which is continuing to become better and better each year.) Two complete competitors of each other. Which one is better? It all depends on whom you are asking, from my personal experience I had the first installation with the Android software and it was the first Droid, and it has absolutely nothing on the IPhone. To this day, IPhones are still outselling any other phone, until the Droid crashed into the market, a study was conducted that within the first 74 days on the market the Droid actually sold 1.05 million units, more then the amount of IPhone’s sold in its first 74 days (Wauters). I still feel as if IPhones out trump Droids because in my opinion, I see more IPhones on a day-to-day basis then I see Droids, the network for IPhones is a lot better and they are with a more reliable company, but it all depends solely on the type of person you are asking. Studies have shown that more IPhones are sold than babies born everyday in the US, and in the first quarter of 2012, 37.04 million IPhones were sold (Panzarino).
Thinking back forty years regarding technology and mobile phones, you will realize that it was an entirely different world back then. Only the elite, wealthy people who had the money to pay for a mobile phone were the ones who usually ended up getting that phone. In 2012, looking around absolutely everyone has a cell phone, to be exact, in the last ten years, cell phone usage in the US has increased from 34-203 million people ("Cell Phone Statistics”), and it is becoming apparent that children at younger and younger ages are now getting cell phones. When I got my first cell phone, I was in eighth grade and it was because I was doing sports and I needed a way of telling my mom and dad I needed picked up. Statistics show that in 2009, the average child in the US gets a cell phone at the age of eight (Wilson), and I have noticed that most eight year olds that do have phones have somewhat nice and expensive phones. I think a major factor in being a child is not having a cell phone, you need to work your way up to get one, but parents are starting to give their kids whatever they want.
After researching the evolution of cell phones, I have realized that they not only have become a huge factor in everyone’s lives, but they also have become a huge factor in making the world what it is today. It is so much easier to get ahold of people, to make sure your loved ones are okay, to schedule business meetings, and even to respond to an email from a client on your phone instead of having to go to a computer. Cell phones have made life more convenient and that is why I feel like the evolution of cell phones is so incredibly important. If Martin Cooper never called Rudy Krolopp into his office on that special day in 1972, the world would be nothing it is today, and the cell phone industry would not have evolved and worked to not only better the world, but also make the world more convenient.
Works Cited
"Cell Phone Statistics." Cell Phone Statistics. ACUU Conference, 23 May 2007. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.accuconference.com/blog/Cell-Phone-Statistics.aspx>.
Costello, Sam. "First-Generation IPhone Review." About.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. http://ipod.about.com/od/iphoneproductreviews/fr/iphone_review.htm
"The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009." Web Design Blog. Web Designer Depot, 22 May 2009. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/>.
Green, Spencer. First Cell Phone a True "Brick". Associated Press, 11 Apr. 2005. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432915/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/first-cell-phone-true-brick/#.UIf_N0I1bFI>.
Ha, Peter. "Motorola DynaTAC 8000x." Time. Time, 25 Oct. 2010. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2023689_2023708_2023656,00.html>.
Montano, Jay. "160 Million Unit Selling Nokia 3210 Back on Sale!" My Nokia Blog. N.p., 28 Dec. 2010. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://mynokiablog.com/2010/12/28/160-million-unit-selling-nokia-3210-back-on-sale/>.
Murphy, Samantha. "Meet the Man Behind the Very First Camera Phone." Mashable Tech. N.p., 6 Mar. 2012. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://mashable.com/2012/03/06/philippe-kahn-camera-phone/>.
Myers, Courtney B. "The Text Message Turns 19 Years Old Today." The Next Web. Shareables, 3 Dec. 2011. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/03/the-text-message-turns-19-years-old-today/>.
Panzarino, Matthew. "There Are Now More IPhones Sold than Babies Born in the World Every Day." The Next Web. N.p., 25 Jan. 2012. Web. 28 Oct. 2012. <http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01/25/there-are-now-more-iphones-sold-than-babies-born-in-the-world-every-day/>.
Skillings, Jonathan. "Apple: 1 Million IPhones Sold." CNET News. CBS Interactive, 10 Sept. 2007. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9774593-7.html>.
"Top 10 Most Bought Cellphones in History.” The 10 Most Known. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://the10mostknown.com/top-10-most-bought-cellphones-in-history.html>.
Wauters, Robin. "Flurry: More Droid Devices than IPhones Sold in First 74 Days on The market." TechCrunch, 16 Mar. 2010. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/16/flurry-more-droid-devices-than-iphones-sold-in-first-74-days-on-the-market/>.
Wilson, Mark. "On Average, Children Get Cellphones at Age 8." Gizmodo. Gizmodo, 18 Feb. 2009. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://gizmodo.com/5156030/on-average-children-get-cellphones-at-age-8>.
"The Year 1972 From The People History." What Happened in 1972 including Pop Culture, Prices, Events and Technology. The People History, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1972.html>.
Zhang, Michael. "The First Camera Phone Photograph Was Sent in 1997." PetaPixel. N.p., 27 Sept. 2011. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.petapixel.com/2011/09/27/the-first-camera-phone-photograph-was-taken-in-1997/>.