History of Mobile Technology

History of Mobile Technology

•Over the last ten years, mobile phones have gone through several incremental technology leaps that

have added capabilities that impact the retail industry.  I've

listed the six major ones below, along with their long-lasting impact.

•Define Mobile Technology

• are the technologies platforms that are developed for and used

on mobile devices. In essence you can

develop mobile technology on a

computer or mobile device to create another

mobile technology.

•History

The earliest mobile apps from retailers

made it easy to find nearby stores, and companies are

looking at ways to use Wi-Fi triangulation inside

stores.

. Computer VisionIn 1997 Philippe Kahn shared a photo of his newborn using a

mobile phone thus launching the popularity

of instant visual communications. Over the

years the quality of the cameras got better, reaching the point where barcodes could be read around 2008. 

• First commercial cellphone

•A decade after Cooper made that first call, the U.S. Federal

Communications Commission approved Motorola's

DynaTAC phone for public use. In 1984, the first

DynaTACs became available for consumers.

•Cellphone cameras- In 2002, the first phones with

built-in cameras became publicly available,

including the Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300. The Nokia phone

boasted "a large 176x208 pixel colour display,"

according to a media release at the time.

-The Sanyo version offered three user controlled tones, white balance and

zoom.Today's iPhone 5, in contrast, offers an

eight-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash

and built-in face detection.