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Interesting facts about mobile phones
What is “pocket calls”? Why do mobile phones go on sale only ten years after development? And where are the mobile communication antennas hiding?
1. Clever Simon. The world’s first smartphone Simon weighed about half a kilogram. In 1993, he offered the possibility of sending mail and messages to a pager, as well as calculator functions and handwritten notes. IBM manufactured only 2,000 of these devices.
2. Simple but popular. Nokia 1100 became the bestseller among mobile phones – and for a long time among all gadgets. From 2003 to 2007, 250 million devices were sold. Continue reading
SplashPower – wireless charging devices!
Humanity is dependent on electricity. Without it, millions of PCs will not turn on, trains will not go, planes will not fly. And where is electricity – there are wires … People constantly want to get rid of them, developing more and more advanced wireless communication systems. The emergence of Bluetooth, and then Wi-Fi, partially alleviated the problem of wireless communication and data transfer, however, one complication remained – wireless charging of mobile and computer devices. It is over the resolution of this issue that the best minds of a number of campaigns have been fighting since about 2002.
Who stands at the wheel? Continue reading
What will smartphones and tablets be in 2030?
Reto Meier, who works for Google’s Android Developer Advocate, is also a renowned futurist.
Having studied the trends in the development of modern technologies, he outlined his point of view on how smartphones and tablets will look in five, ten and twenty years.
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