Friday, June 10, 2011

Milestones in the history of the mobile phone!

Bob Dylan knew 1964: "the times, they are a changin'". How he should keep right so, we see year after year to global terrain. Especially from a technology perspective, things change faster than many can understand it. In recent years, it was above all the mobile technology, which transported our daily life to a new level.

2011 applies to many as "The mobile year". An information graphic that we found the members of mobile zeitgeist, is impressively insight, how the mobile technology affects our lives. We sum up:

A-Netz-FunktelefonMilestones of mobile phones:

1973 - Motorola employee Martin Cooper leads the first conversation with a mobile phone.1983 - Motorola sold the first generation of DynaTEC 8000X (weight: approx. 1 kg)1985 - in America call 340.213 people with a mobile phone.1990 - Five years later there are already 5 million people.1993 - The first Smartphone developed IBM with Simon.More five years later calls1995 - in the States 33 million people mobile.2000- Interim results: 109 million owning.2004- With the RAZR, Motorola celebrates a golden product. Over 110 million units should be sold.2005 - Review: there are now 207 million mobile phone users in the United States.2007 - Apple launches iPhone. 89 Million iPhones all generations in the United States were sold to this day.2008- Google brings up as Handset Alliance Android market. Annual growth rates of 886% up to follow.2010 - 290 Million mobile phones are used in America. That 91% of US citizens (!).

iPhone4Mobile facts worldwide:

Worldwide, the number of mobile phone contracts 2010 is at 5 billion. 70% Of the world's population. China is the largest market with 841 million mobile phones.6 Trillion were worldwide in 2010 (!) Short messages sent. 190,000 News per second (!).In the United States have 9 of 10 people a Mobiltelefon.Afrika has the largest growth for mobile phones. There were 550% growth between 2003 and 2008.India has the second-largest market for mobile phones, there are 752 million completed mobile phone contracts with a growth of 75%.In the developing countries, 57% of the population has a Mobiltelefon.Das is 25% per year growth of mobile phone contracts in precisely those developing countries.

Which mobile fact has surprised you most? Have you thought this development 10 years ago to be possible? And how will we use mobile phones/computers in 10 years?

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