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.
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Hello Dolly,
Your blog has several interesting fact about the cell phone. I did not think of the cell phone as a walkie talkie until reading your blog. The comparison to a walkie talkie reminded me of the Nextel “direct connect” or push-to-talk phone. I did not catch the Nextel wave, even though my organization at Fort Knox, KY did use the phones. Mobile phones were seen as car devices during earlier years of development. I remember the bag mobile phones.
The cost of the cell phone did obsolete the pager. The wide variation of technology for the cell phone has led many users to use the cell phone as their primary phone. I believe Voice-Over-Internet Protocol (VOIP) will also eliminate the traditional landline home phone. Cost is reduced most of the time when technology increases and technology items become plentiful.
The cell phone is often referred to as a mobile phone. The term mobile phone makes the term, in my opinion, even broader. The more advance mobile phone, which is called a smartphone, requires a data package from mobile carrier. I like how you compared the speed of basic cell phones to smarthphones with the time of a latte from Starbucks. Where do you vision cell phones increasing with technology if you classified the smartphone a product or variation of earlier cell phones?
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Sullus
Sullus,
You ask a great question but I hadn't given it much thought. I would imagine that the cell phone would continue to get smaller and maybe incorporate (I forget the name of the type of technology) movement oriented technology - where body movements equate to commands so as to reduce reliance on keyboards/touch screens.
My group also focused upon cell phone, however progressed ahead to the Smart Phone technology. It appears to me that you have described how the trend of cell phones has moved away from being tied down by wires and cords and how speed and versatility are key. Please visit my blog at to see the direction in which we are taking Smart Phone technology:
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Cathy
PS...I tried to delete and replace the previous post, but it doesn't seem to have been removed. The above link is a better link.
I agree with the advancement and development of technology surrounding the cell phone, especially the "smartphone", when you consider the abilities of current cell phone apps from GPS mapping, power point programs to searching the Bible scripture it is amazing. The price tag has drastically reduced from the first era or the "brick", but have you also noticed the current price increases with smartphone technology couple with our dependence of this technology it could skyrocket once again. In my opinion, the pricing strategies could cause obsoletion in itself.
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