Archives of IT publishes feature covering 40 Years of Mobile Phones
Archives of IT (AIT) has published an in-depth feature documenting the rise of the mobile phone from status symbol to the world's most ubiquitous personal technological device.
From bricks to bendables:40 years of Mobile Phones
Using interviews from the AIT archive, From bricks to bendables: 40 years of Mobile Phones reveals the journey from the emergence of the first cellular systems to support mobile phones in 1984 and the first mobile call in the UK the following year to today's smartphones and our hyperconnected world.
It traces the technology back to the Victorian telegraph, which tranformed international communication and how mobile phones emerged from this and the wireless car phones of the 1950s-80s.
The article also highlights many of the key developments including the successive generations of cellular networks, the move from analogue to digital, GSM, the first text message, Arm processors, mobile internet and the iPhone. As well as this we look at the legacy and future of mobile phones with increased 5G coverage enabling increased societal gains.