Where The Cellphone is King
Motorola was the first to produce a handheld mobile phone. On 3 April 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 2.4 pounds and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide.
Before this the Phones were constrained to homes and in some higher end cars. The Prototype of this cellular device was capable of 30 minutes of talk time and then took 10 hours to recharge.
John F. Mitchell, Motorola’s chief of portable communication products and Cooper’s boss, played a key role in advancing the development of handheld mobile telephone equipment. Mitchell successfully pushed Motorola to develop wireless communication products that would be small enough to use anywhere and participated in the design of the cellular phone.
New Technologies have rolled out in waves or “generations” its only became considered generations when 3G was developed but it is now used actively when you speak of older mobile systems.
The first generation was the Analogue Cellular or 1G. It was started in Tokyo in 1979 and in 1983 was deployed in North America called Advanced Mobile Phone System or AMPS. This is when Motorola Came out with the DynaTAC8000x.
The Next Generation was The Digital Cellular or 2G. which changed everything drastically. in the 1990’s GSM and CDMA Networks were born, these are the networks we use to this day. in 1993 the IBM Simon was introduced to the world and it was possibly the first smartphone. It was a pager, phone, fax machine and PDA all in one. it had features such as calendar, clock and Calculator. it also had a Qwerty Keyboard. This Generation also came with a new feature called SMS or Text Messaging. It began only available to GSM networks and the first person to person Text message was sent in finland
The Third Generation “3G” was the Mobile Broadband Generation. Which introduced Increased Data Rates so people could use there phones faster to browse the internet. You could now on 3G stream the Radio and even Television on your phones.
The Fourth Generation “4G” The Native IP Networks. This generation began looking towards better data optimized technologies and a way to speed up the phones and data by 10 times as much on 3g. WiMAX by Sprint and LTE which was the Standard in 2009. 4G was different from 3G due to the fact that they had eliminated using all IP networks and allowed voice calls to be treated as all other streamed data such as music and television through the Local Area Network though Voice over IP. This is the generation of phones we use in the present. With Iphones and Androids being very popular demand.
what’s your physical experience interacting with it? My physical experience interacting with Cellular Devices starts back between 8th and 9th grade. I got a cell phone with a slide out full keyboard. I was very excited about it and began texting all my friends all the time on my new phone. I have since worked through multiple phones throughout the years. I remember growing up and seeing the phone that was in my grandparents jeep, before they had the mobile phones. I have had so many mobile phones in my life that I have lost count. They one problem i know i have had with this device is that I tend to break them very often and have had to get multiple different replacements. I was clumsy growing up. Now I have a top of the line newest generation of smart phone that came out in October, I have gotten a lot better at taking good care of my phones and treat them very carefully because They are expensive and I want to make the phone last as long as possible. What difficulties are there in representing the object digitally? the biggest difficulty of representing this object digitally is the main phone that i am using is hard to get a good photo of it to represent digitally due to the fact I don't own any other form of camera, and it is hard to find a way to take a good picture to represent it visually on the website. Also, Having a good look inside the devices to look at the components is difficult because I don't want to break any of my devices because They are mostly still usable or sell-able. If i take them apart they will not work and i will not be able to sell them or trade them. I would like to have Ifixit be able to break down a brand new generation of smart phones such as the iPhone 7 or the LG V20 like i have to allow me to see better into the way they are put together. This would also allow me to be able to look into ways to fix my device should I ever have any problems with the LG V20.
My Experience Directly with the LGV20. I have had this phone since October, Its Quite Large which suits me perfectly being a big guy with big hands this phone feels good in my hands. I really enjoy the way it has the lock screen button on the back of the phone, which doubles as a fingerprint sensor to unlock the screen. The phone features four cameras, two on the front and two on the back, both sides have a normal camera and a wide angle camera that allows you to take a 135 degree field of view photo. Which lets you take some pretty cool looking photography which this phone is exceptional at. It also is able to record in 4k Resolution video with Stereo Audio. I have yet to record anything worth while on this phone so far but I look forward to getting the chance to do so. The android 7.0 Operating System on the phone is smooth and simple, allowing people who aren't the best with the new smart phone technology to catch on pretty quick, but not as simple as using an apple iPhone but it is still easy to use. It is rather quick when it loads anything, and With a internal memory of 64 Gigabytes, You can download a lot of videos, music or photos in your phone. The best parts of this phone are two features that are commonly not available on some of the newer generation phones we use today. These features are the Removable battery and the Expandable storage with a micro SD card slot to allow memory expansion up to 2 terabytes more than what you had. Those features alone were astonishing to see on a new phone, and I am so glad I have them as features on this phone.
What material components make up the device? They body of the LG V20 is made from Aircraft Grade Aluminum, The Screen is made partially with Corning Gorilla Glass 4, A 16 Megapixel Camera lens, A Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 chip and a Quad-core 21250MHz, Kyro, 64-Bit processor, and a Adreno 530 for the Graphics processor
How are components made? The Adreno 530 Graphics processor is made by a company called Qualcomm which is a company in San Diego, California. This company also makes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 chip and the Quad-core 21250MHz, Kyro, 64-Bit processor Which is nice because they are all made by the same company in this phone and not from different places. The Corning Gorilla Glass 4 is made by the company Corning, an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and other related materials This company is located in Corning, New York. It is looking like this LG V20 is American made which is a satisfying thing to learn for me. I take pride in things made in the U.S.
