In this day & age, there is technology in everything and everywhere we look. We use to only make calls from a physical phone that is situated either in your office or home. Then as technology developments got more sophisticated, these phones had more features pumped-in like caller ID, loudspeakers, speed dial, redial…etc.
After that, they made phones cordless….whooppeee…now u can talk & carry your phone everywhere in the house/office (added mobility minus the wire nuisance). Imagine talking on the phone while doing your BIG bizness in the toilet. (Thank goodness there is no smell feature included…else I pity the other end of the line….LOL)
Then those geniuses at the phone companies thought "hmmm, if we could make the phone cordless, why don’t we also make them truly…truly mobile?"
There and then I would think was the beginning of the mobile revolution. The first few mobile phones were HUGE….about the size of a briefcase and weighs about 4kgs. That’s almost like lugging your son’s schoolbag all around. It was Big and Bulky …. BUT to a certain extend it made you proud, prestigious and belong to the upper echelon of the society.
After that, the rest as they say is history…a quite long one at that. We have a whole lot assortments of mobile phones in the market these days that runs on various technology.
eg. different ring tones (MIDI…AVI…MP3…sound effects…poly…mono….and some drove you psycho too…..LOL),
caller ID, call forwarding, call holding, call conferencing, call flying, call screaming….just kidding
there was like ,infra-red, infra-blue…i think there was a purple something….bluetooth, redeye, handsfree, legfree, …. duhh i think there is one just for the idiots too…..brainfree
…..nahh just kidding guys….Hahaha
some even had loudspeakers, keyboards, and dunno what-nots what-nots…etc.
If we talk about mobile technology itself …..it could also drive you nuts….there’s SMS, EMS, MMS, PMS (kidding gals)….GSM, Triband, EDGE, 2G, 2.5G and the latest hype 3G……so many Gs It just wakes you wonder and then you go like "GoSH…Ummm…..Geeee, what Phone is that huh?"
The main player in the market back then was Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia. After a while, Nokia gain market share and the rest kinda fell into a mobile blackhole……These days the top few brands that still dominate the market is NOKIA, SONY ERICSSON, SAMSUNG and MOTOROLA (at least in Malaysia). Although there are many new brands as well from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and some familiar ones….except not in mobilephones technology.
Panasonic - always associated with home electrical products….now moving into mobiles??
LG - same as Panasonic as well
Philips - lightbulbs, electrical and now mobiles too?? Hungry aren’t they?
Like Samsung, these 3 above were always associated with home electronic products…..but Samsung has been much successful than the lot of them.
I guess all these must have started when Japan’ giant, Sony bought into the ailing swiss, Ericsson…..which in a way stared the ball rolling with Sony Ericsson.
Mitsubishi - I thought they were car makers…what the hell?? moving from EVOs to Mobilephones
Siemens - Go figure the Germans…trying to conquer the world again???
refer this link here: http://www.mobile88.com/mobilegallery/
Many many more mobilephones that are out there…..just Google the word mobilephone or handphone or mobile cellular…….I’m sure it’ll return about a couple millions of hits.
I think we get spoiled for choice when it’s time to change to a new phone…..in fact we are so spoiled for choice that getting a new phone is utterly just troublesome…..and to some extend mind-boggling.
There’s so much to consider when getting one:
Colour, Design, Size
Function and Features
Compatibility
weight
Talktime
Accesories
User-Friendliness
Warranty and Support
The FEEL and VIBE that makes you JIVE with the Phone
LAST but not least……THE PRICE!!!
Use that as a checklist and I’m sure you’re gonna get a darn big headache just finding out which one to get.
This post is just to waste my time actually……that’s coz I’m an INSOMNIAC….need to pass my time to get to sleep….hehehe
Hope this post made you sleepy as it did for me…….Yawn….now I’m feeling tired……time for ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz (snoring away in LaLa Land)