Cell Phones Evolution

Have you ever look the progression of the cell phone’s designs? Back in 1990’s, I remembered having a Nokia cell phone, 5 inches long and almost an inch wide. It looked like a tiny brick. Designed only to make phone calls and few text messaging, with an ABC writing format, which means that you would click several times the same key in order to have the letter you wanted to be shown in the cell phone’s screen. But, back in 1980’s the first cell phone was even bigger and, according to the eighties online, it was actually referred as “the brick.”

In about ten years the cell phone’s design changed dramatically, the size was smaller (not smaller as some phones we have now) than it initially was. Then, as time progressed cell phones got increasingly acceptable and versatile. Size no longer determined the functionality of the cell phone. There were cell phones even smaller than someone’s palm with the entire programs and options of another cell phone.

Then how design influenced this “human’s necessity?” Well, when cell phones started to be invented society was not as much dependent on technology as we are today. As time progressed, society needed more convenient and compact goods. Nowadays, there cell phones, like Iphone, Blackberry Storm, and so on, which no longer have keyboards in it. Society is requiring more condensed and multifunctional accessories. There is no need to waste that extra money to create the plastic keyboards. The cell phone screen can be set up so that responds to one’s touch. The same goes with how new computers designs are being made. Hewlett-Packard is one company that has changed their computers designs the computer screen to respond to the users’ touch.

The cell phones, these contemporary societies have, are created and designed so that it can hold different programs on it. We not only can do primary services of this product: make phone

and send text messages, where we no longer need to click several times in the keyboard, the cell phone now will know the word we want to use, but also can send e-mails, navigate on the web, take photos or videos, and even find our location in the world. And cell phones are going to keep evolving, it might become even thinner, compacted, and convenient and designers will play an important role in deciding how the new image of the human’s dependency will be.

***Photos were taken from the internet, the references: ***

http://www.eightiesonline.com/eighties-news-and-information/the-first-cell-phone-call-25-years-ago-in-1983

http://www.gearcrave.com/2008-12-02/the-history-of-blackberry-six-rims-from-black-to-bold/

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