Mobile Communication: A Study on Smart Phone and Mobile Application Use

History Of The Mobile Phone

Until very recently, since its invention in 1876, the telephone had always been tied to an outlet with a cable, even though it constantly continued to develop. This was troublesome for some countries such as Japan, because it is composed of small islands, and for North European countries which have hundreds of kilometers of fiords and thousands of small islands that cause difficulties in building telephone lines and other essential infrastructure. As a consequence, these countries started to look for alternative ways of communication, and similar studies emerged in other countries, such as the USA, in short order. These efforts led to the development of cellular phones and to their instant commercialization (Basaran, 2010). The first usable mobile phones were created in 1973 by Motorola, although it was not the first company to launch the mobile phone. The first commercial cell phone was released by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, a Japanese telecommunication company, in 1979. The first GSM network was established in Finland in 1991 with the advent of second-generation phones. While the first-generation cell phones were combinations of wired phone and radio, they became more and more sophisticated and complicated within a short time period with augmented activities (Basaran, 2010). Thus, cell phones started to become more than a means of communication for their users.