The Evolution of the Mobile Phone

THE EVOLUTION OF MOBILE PHONES UK NETWORKS BY SIZE 87% world's USA USA population USA 110 Million USA 323 Million 340,000 5.2 Million China 85.2 Million China 963 Million China WORLDWIDE MARKET GROWTH China 18,319 33.5 India India India India 884 Million 3.5 Million Subscribers Subscribers Subscribers Subscribers 26.1 UK UK UK UK Total 43.4 Million Total 50,000 Total 1.1 Million 59 Million Total Total 11.1million NOKIA 148,855 750,629 720million 5.9billion 21.3 6.8 1940 1983 1985 1990 2000 2011 4.7 3.1 4.4 The text is so pervasive now that a common text Mobile technology first appeared in taxis, long-haul trucks, police cars and other emergency vehicles. First Generation or 1G was introduced by Motorola using analogue technology.148,855 mobile phone subscribers worldwide, lead by Finland with 42,226. 340,000 subscribers in the USA. 50,000 subscribers in the UK, None in China or India. 5.2 million subscribers in the USA. 110 million subscribers in the USA. 323 million subscribers in the USA 1.1 million subscribers in the UK. 18,319 subscribers in China. 11.1 million subscribers in total. 43.4 million subscribers in the UK. 85.2 million subscribers in China. 3.5 million subscribers in India. 59 million subscribers in the UK 963 million subscribers in China acronym LOL (laugh out loud) has even made it into the Oxford Dictionary 750,629 in total. 884 million subscribers in India 720 million subscribers in total. 5.9 billion subscribers worldwide Virgin Mobile 4.4% Tesco Other Vodafone Everything Everywhere 33.5% 3 02 3.1% 4.7% 6.8% 21.3% 26.1% UK NETWORK GROWTH ANDROID VS APPLE 2007 everything everywhere cellnet one 2 One Many consider Apple's iPhone, released in 2007, to be the first real smartphone, making it easy for the average person to have the power of a computer in the palm of their hands. vodafone orange orange 1985 1993 1994 2001 2002 2010 Orange is officially the UK's number one operator in terms of active customer numbers as at 25 July 2001 and the fastest growing network. Everything Everywhere is formed in July through a merger of Orange and T-mobile to become the largest UK network. ரிபர்பரிபரிபரிபரிபரிபர் Orange was officially launched into the mobile network market. The first networks to launch in the UK T- Mobile UK launched as Mercury One20ne. 3 founds its worldwide brand and network. were Vodafone and Cellnet (now known as 02). THE RISE OF TEXTS 2008 Google released Android in 2008, and as hardware became available and units started selling, developers started releasing apps for it. Android could be licensed by any manufacturer, so many adopted it, and the variety of Android hardware spanned all price points. 0.4 35 357 NOKIA texts per month texts per month texts per month The average SMS smartphone user has 65 apps downloaded on 1992 1993 1994 2000 2011 First text message sent to a phone. from Neil Papworth to Richard Jarvis Text message was "Merry Christmas" It was sent using a computer keyboard Nokia releases the 2110,the first phone able to send and receive text messages. Americans send 0.4 text messages a month on average Americans send 357 texts a month on average 8.5 trillion text messages estimated to have been sent. 1.5 trillion in the U.S alone.$585 billion (approximately £370 billion) of revenue for operators worldwide is expected to have come from texting. Americans send 35 texts a month on average Infograph provided by mobilesplease.co.uk their phone SOURCES www.nielsen.com www.mobiles4everyone.com www.mobithinking.com SMARTPHONES www.media.ofcom.or.uk www.flurry.com www.loopinsight.com www.thepeoplehistory.com www.cntr.salford.ac.uk http://connect.icrossing.co.uk http://henokian9blog.com http://www.textually.org http://www.pcworld.com http://gs.statcounter.com http://www.uswitch.com 12 C NOKIA BOGGGGGGS 1993 1998 2002 2003 2007 2009 2011 IBM launch the IBM Simon. It had Nokia 9110 Communicator. No real web The Blackberry 5810 from RIM was released although it did need to be plugged in to a headset to make a call, it did give you email and the ability to surf the web mobile phone, pda and fax machine capabilities.It even had a touch screen! browsing ability but it did feature a flip out keyboard design Treo 600 is launched from the little known Palm. Iphone launched by Apple. It featured a touchscreen, along with web browsing as well as a flurry of add-on capabilities. Motorolla Droid is a hit phone featuring an Android OS Iphone 4S and Samsung Galaxy SII considered to be the best selling phones on the market. 1000000 Feiejare