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Mobile Development History
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World War One
World War I pioneered many technological, scientific and societal innovations. Field telephones and wireless communications were regularly used for the first time to coordinate military movements. -
The First Mobile Phone Call
A driver in St. Louis, Mo., pulled out a handset from under his car's dashboard, placed a phone call and made history. It was the first mobile telephone call.
A team including Alton Dickieson and D. Mitchell from Bell Labs and future AT&T CEO H.I. Romnes, worked more than a decade to achieve this feat. By 1948, wireless telephone service was available in almost 100 cities and highway corridors. Customers included utilities, truck fleet operators and reporters. However, with only 5,000 customers -
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology. He died in 2011, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. -
James Gosling and Java
James A. Gosling, O.C., Ph.D. (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language. He invented Java in the 90's. They began writing Java in 1990. Java is an object oriented programming language that will eventually be used to program android technologies. -
The Creator of Android (Estimated date)
He is the cofounder of Danger Inc and Android. He eventually sells the software to Google in the year 2005. He has recenty stepped down from his post at Google -
The First Mobile Apps (estimated date)
It was during this period the first “time-waster” games
begin to appear. Nokia was famous for putting the 1970s video game
Snake on some of its earliest phones. Other followed,
adding games like Pong, Tetris, and Tic-Tac-Toe. These early phones changed the way people thought
about communication. As mobile phone prices dropped,
batteries improved, reception areas grew, and more and
more people began carrying these handy devices. -
Remember the Brick?
The world’s first cellular phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. The phone Cooper used, if you could call it that, weighed a staggering 1.1kg and measured in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. With this prototype device, you got 30 minutes of talk-time and it took around 10 hours to charge. -
The Begininng of Apple
Steve Jobs was a 21-year-old college dropout living with his parents in Los Altos, Calif, where he and two friends, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, would hang out in the garage. For other trios, this would be the beginning of a rock band; but Jobs, "Woz" and Wayne had other things on their minds. Jobs and Wayne had both worked together at the gaming company, Atari, while Wozniak, 26, had worked for Hewlett-Packard. The three men incorporated Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. While the two Steves -
Technophone EXCELL PC105T(estimated date)
Technophone was a company set up in 1984 by Nils Martensson, a Swedish radio engineer who left Ericsson to set up on his own in 1978. Nils Martensson’s dream was to transform the large, clunky”brick” into the world’s first mobile phone to fit into the pocket. He secured a DTI R&D grant, brought as much computer technology into the mobile phone as the state of the art would allow (including soft keys) and the PC105T arrived on the market in 1986 with a price tag of £1990. -
Simon Cellular Phone/PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) (1994)
This Simon was the first PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) device to utilize cellular technology. Simon
was introduced in 1994 by BellSouth Cellular and was designed and built by IBM. At a cost of $900,
the Simon was a combination cellular phone/PDA that included an x86-compatible CPU, a fax
modem, a PCMCIA Type II PC Card slot, 11 built-in programs, and a 4 1/2- by 1 1/2-inch touchsensitive
LCD screen. Simon measures 8 x 2.5 x1.5 inches and has been described as a hip G.I. Joe
Walkie Talkie. -
Nokia 2100 Series(estimated date)
Far more pocketable was the Nokia 2100 series. Nokia hoped to sell 400,000 of them; instead, it sold 20 million. The 2100 series also transformed a clip of Spanish classical composer Francisco Tarrega's 19th century guitar piece "Gran Vals" into what the world came to recognize as "the Nokia ring." Nokia estimates that "Gran Vals" is now "one of the most frequently played pieces of music in the world." -
The Meeting of the Cofounders of Google
In the summer of 1995, Larry Page, then 22, visited Stanford as a prospective PhD student in computer science. His tour guide was Sergey Brin, a 21-year-old mathematical whiz who was already pursuing his PhD in that department. Despite their common interests, Brin and Page didn’t immediately hit it off—in fact, their first day together was spent arguing. -
Google
Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. -
The First iPhone
The release of the very first iPhone by Apple. This new phone revolutionised the mobile industry -
The Release of Android
Android is a mobile OS which user interface relies on direct manipulation. This OS eventually begins to rival the Apple iPhone , iPads -
The Egyptian Revolution
This event was so important to the development and use of mobile technology. Many protestors and activists started coordinationg protests and actions using different social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Mobile technology aiade in the revolution allowing those to gain support and coordinate acts of protests. This truly shwoed the power of mobile and social technology. -
The Creation of Swift
Swift is the new more powerful programming language developed by Apple. Development on Swift began in 2010 On June 2, 2014, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) application became the first publicly released app written in Swift. -
Today
All the events in this timeline show where the mobile industry has made majpr changes. These events allowed the industry to change to what we know today.
