Mobile Phone or Cellular phone or Cell phone

Mobile phone is a wonderful gift of science. It is a gift to society. It has revolutionized the world of communication. Now a man can communicate anywhere, anytime to anyone,sitting thousands of kilometers away from him though a small instrument which can perform big functions.It is the blessings of science which made the world closer to us.

Martin Cooper is known as father of mobile phone or cell phones.Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On 3 April 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment in front of reporters, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

Prior to 1973, mobile telephony was limited to phones installed in cars and other vehicles.

The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Martin Cooper, weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge.

The latest version of it offers many great facilities including music system, photography, internet, computer, etc. It is, in fact, an improved version of landline phone which has facilitated communication. Now we can talk whether we are in car, bus, train or aeroplane.

Mobile phones have received overwhelming response from all across the world. Now everyone has a mobile phone. It is useful for all. It is a device mainly used for a voice call. Presently technological advancements have made our life easy. Today, with the help of a mobile phone we can easily talk or video chat with anyone across the globe by just moving our fingers. Today mobile phones are available in various shapes and sizes, having different technical specifications and are used for a number of purposes like – voice calling, video chatting, text messaging or SMS, multimedia messaging, internet browsing, email, video games, and photography. Hence it is called a ‘Smart Phone’.. The first smartphone, created by IBM, was invented in 1992

Like every device, the mobile phone also has its pros and cons which we shall discuss now.

Advantages of Mobile Phone:

1) Keeps us connected

Now we can be connected to our friends, relatives at any time we want through many apps. Now we can talk video chat with whoever we want, by just operating your mobile phone or smartphone. Apart from this mobile also keeps us updated about the whole world.

2) Day to Day Communicating

Today mobiles phone has made our life so easy for daily life activities. Today, one can assess the live traffic situation on mobile phone and take appropriate decisions to reach on time. Along with it the weather updates, booking a cab and many more.

3) Entertainment for All

With the improvement of mobile technology, the whole entertainment world is now under one roof. Whenever we get bored with routine work or during the breaks, we can listen to music, watch movies, our favourite shows or just watch the video of one’s favourite song.

4) Managing Office Work

These days mobiles are used for many types of official work From meeting schedules, sending and receiving documents, giving presentations, alarms, job applications etc. Mobile phones have become an essential device for every working people

5) Mobile Banking

Nowadays mobiles are even used as a wallet for making payments. Money could be transferred almost instantly to friends, relatives or others by using mobile baking in the smartphone. Also, one can easily access his/her account details and know past transactions. So it saves a lot of time and also hassle-free.

Disadvantage of Mobile Phone:

1) Wasting Time

Now-a-day’s people have become addicted to mobiles. Even when we don’t need to mobile we surf the net, play games making a real addict. As mobile phones became smarter, people became dumber.

2) Making Us Non- communicable

Wide usage of mobiles has resulted in less meet and talk more. Now people don’t meet physically rather chat or comment on social media.

3) Loss of Privacy

It is a major concern of losing one’s privacy because of much mobile usage. Today anyone could easily access the information like where you live, your friends and family, what is your occupation, where is your house, etc; by just browsing through your social media account.

4) Money Wastage

As the usefulness of mobile has increased so their costing. Today people are spending a lot amount of money on buying smartphones which we could rather be spent on more useful things like education or other useful things in our life.

Conclusion:

A mobile phone could be both positive and negative; depending on how a user uses it. As mobiles have become a part of our life so we should use it in a proper way.