mbile phone impact on the way business transactions are carried out

In march 2008, Nokia was the worl's largest manufacturer of mobile phone, with a global device market share of 39.4%, followed by Samsung 17.3 %, sonny ericson8.6%, motorola 8.5% and LG electronics 7.7%. these manufacturer accounted for over 80% of all mobile phones sold at times

source:www.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:mobile_phone_manufactures_market_share_in_Q3-2008.php

catogories of handphones and their functions

There are lot of types of handphones that is available, for example nokia, thoshibah, sony ericson and much more. all of those that i have listed is the company of the manufature's name of the mobile phone each of the handphone has it's own functions and utilities. so i have decide to give a brief explaination of the mobile phone that im using myself. the type of mobile phone that is use is the NOKIA N70i.

2G Network GSM 900/ 1800/1900

3G Network UMTS 2100
dimension 108.8x53x21.8mm,95.9cc
weight 126grm
type TFT,256k colours
five way scoll key
downloadable themes
alert types Vibration; downloadble polyphonic, monophonic,MP3 ringtones
speakerphone yes
phonebook practical unlimited entries and feild, photocall
call detailed, max 30 days
internal 22mb
card slot RS-DV-MMC,64MB card included, hotswap
GPRS CLASS 10 (4+1/3+2SLOTS),32-48kbps
EDGE class 10,236.8 kbps
3G yes 38 kbps
WLAN no
Bluetooth v2.0
infrared no
usb yes, pop port
primary video 2nMP,1600x1200pixel,LED flash
secondary VGA videocall camera
OS Symbian OS 8.1a, Series 60UI
CPU TI OMAP 1710220 MHz proccessor
Messenging SMS, MMS Email, Instant messenging
Browser Wap 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio FM radio Visual Radio
Games Yes+Java downloadable
colour Silver, IvoryPearl, Black (music edition)

sourse:www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n70-1153.php

How it works

Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network consisting of switching points and base stations owned by a mobile network operator. but first of all, A cellular network is a radio network made up of a number of radio cells (or just cells) each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver known as a cell site or base station. These cells cover different land areas to provide radio coverage over a wider area than the area of one cell, so that a variable number of portable transceivers can be used in any one cell and moved through more than one cell during transmission. Here is the example of the cellular network radio tower and the structure of the 2G cellular network:

Then the base staion is a GPS receiver at an accurately-known fixed location which is used to derive correction information for nearby portable GPS receivers. This correction data allows propagation and other effects to be corrected out of the position data obtained by the mobile stations, which gives greatly increased location precision and accuracy over the results obtained by uncorrected GPS receivers.Then, a mobile network operator (MNO), also known as mobile phone operator ,carrier service provider (CSP), wireless service provider, wireless carrier, mobile phone operator, or cellular company, is a telephone company that provides services for mobile phone subscribers.The process of becoming a mobile network operator within a country usually begins by acquiring a radio spectrum license from the government. The precise spectrum obtained does depend on the type of mobile phone technology the operator intends to deploy. For example, a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network will require a GSM frequency range.The government may allocate spectrum using whichever method it chooses. example of mobile network operator in Malaysia are DIGI, MAXIS, CELLCOM, U-MOBILE, and ect

source: 1:http://www.thebalitimes.com/2008/01/18/of-cigarettes-and-cellphones/.

2:http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9878005-7.html

3:http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20081030/WIRELESS/810309997/

Technological development of handphones

the handphone technologhy have moved away from a hard-wired networked world to an increasingly wireless networked. With the emergence of Smart Handphones, people on the go prefer to use hand held devices to work on a 24 x 7 basis cutting across geographical and time barriers. The remarkable technological breakthroughs that have taken place in the wireless networking domain have led to the emergence of thriving mobile communities that deliver content-rich applications for the high-end mobile devices that are now readily available.
nowadays the haphones companies have genrated a team of specialist to drive the Mobile Application Development Practice. some organisation of handphones also offer custom mobile application development for a host of smart phones and its various OS(s) including Blackberry, iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android and J2ME mobile platforms.

now wit the development of the camera phones. The camera phone, like many complex systems, is the result of converging and enabling technologies. There are dozens of relevant patents dating back as far as the 1960s Compared to digital camera of the 90s, a consumer-viable camera in a mobile phone would require far less power and a higher level of camera electronics integration to permit the miniaturization. The CMOS active pixel image sensor "camera-on-a-chip" developed by Dr. Eric Fossum and his teamin the early 1990s achieved the first step of realizing the modern camera phone as described in a March 1995 Business Week article.[While the first camera phones, as successfully marketed by J-Phone in Japan, used CCD sensors and not CMOS sensors, more than 90% of camera phones sold today use CMOS image sensor technology.

(reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_phone)

history of handphones

April 3, 2003 marked the 30th anniversary of the first public telephone call placed on a portable cellular phone. Martin Cooper ( now chairman, CEO, and co-founder of ArrayComm Inc) placed that call on April 3, 1973, while general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. It was the incarnation of his vision for personal wireless communications, distinct from cellular car phones. That first call, placed to Cooper's rival at AT&T's Bell Labs from the streets of New York City, caused a fundamental technology and communications market shift toward the person and away from the place.

"People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973," said Martin Cooper.
Martin Cooperadded, "As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life."
Following the April 3, 1973, public demonstration, using a "brick"-like 30-ounce phone, Cooper started the 10-year process of bringing the portable cell phone to market. Motorola introduced the 16-ounce "DynaTAC" phone into commercial service in 1983, with each phone costing the consumer $3,500. It took seven additional years before there were a million subscribers in the United States. Today, there are more cellular subscribers than wireline phone subscribers in the world, with mobile phones weighing as little as 3 ounces.

(source:http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm)