The cell phone is a part of the mobile phone evolution. The cell phone was slow to adopt due to size (originally referred to as “the brick”) and cost. The adoption rate of the cell phone increased as the device’s size and price tag decreased.
As the cell phone developed, pager usage (outside of the medical field) decreased. The cell phone replaced the car phone because it could only be used in the car. The cell phone started to obsolete the home phone, which is also referred to the land line, but may have actually been credited with a spike in land line sales as reception and battery can stop calls from being placed.
Cell phones always reminded me of walkie talkies but with a longer range so, to me, it only seems natural that some are equipped with a walkie talkie feature because that is a quicker way to communicate a line or two especially when working on a project. I guess that could be replaced by the text message feature but only the walkie talkie will allow you to instantly verify that the communication was received.
While the cell phone remains a top technology, the smart phone may replace it. The smart phone has many more features that can be accessed at a speed that the cell phone cannot compete with. I mean, when was the last time you tried to surf the web on a cell phone? A latte from Starbucks can be had faster than the start up of the browser! But it’s being able to pay for that latte with a smart phone that may help expedite the “obsoleting” of the cell phone.
