The History Of The Mobile Phone

The article "Faster, thinner, lighter... so what will we dial up next?" describes how mobile phones have altered the way we communicate.

As the article said, the phones we used to have - Nokia phones that were nicknamed "brick phones" - "did little else but ring and bleep". This shows that the first mobile phones were only ever used for ringing people and sending SMS text messages. The phones we have now are not like that but, surprisingly, twenty nine per cent of people aged over forty five still use their first mobile phone.
Now mobile phones are described as "powerful mini-computers" which "bear little resemblance to the clichéd 80s brick phones".
Nowadays, mobile phones are as the article's title states: "faster, thinner, lighter". The majority of people these days "rely on them for everything" as "there are now very few tasks we undertake that don't involve our phones", such as "keeping track of appointments" or "keeping us entertained at the gym".
The article says that "phones have become the centre of our universe", and that "the age of the phone as a calling device is well and truly over". As the article said, they are much more like "mini-computers" these days and, as the article said, the phones being made now are so different that many of us "look back with fondness on our first phone", and "get all nostalgic". This is not exactly surprising when you consider that, by the age of fourteen, seventy six per cent of eighteen-to-twenty-four year olds owned their first phone. They grew up with them.
More people own mobile phones nowadays as they are cheaper, people have more disposable income, and mobile phones are more widely viewed as an acceptable means of communication.
Here is the article:

 

Nowadays, there are many different types of phone. While basic phones, such as some of the early Nokia mobile phones, were very popular, after, phones such as blackberries with their qwerty keyboards were even more so and, nowadays, smartphones, such as touchscreen phones, even more than that. Because the phones are becoming more and more advanced with new technology, their usability and functionality have vastly improved, meaning that they can be used almost anywhere.