Evolution of Mobile Phones

With mobile phones, is the obsession with miniaturization and flashy design most frequently in Asia. Walk along a busy street in Asia today and be the hands sprout a striking range of mobile phones in all shapes, sizes and colors available, and functions.

Form Factor

For more than a decade, the only form available to the traditional bar form was (like the Siemens SL45), an extension of the common cordless house phone. The introduction of the clamshell-shapedThe early 90s gave consumers another choice. Today, most phones sold in Asia, a bar and clamshell phones, with the former being more popular in most countries except China, Japan and Korea, where shells are the preferred form.

In 1998, Siemens established one of the first slider phone in the world, a radical departure from the usual form. Based on a "Peek-a-boo" premise, if the keyboard is well hidden, so that the phone is a mysteriousAppearance, SL10 aroused the interest of consumers with its stunning design. In fact, the appeal of the various handset designs for different personalities. A common form of bar is popular with business people, while those in creative fields such as design and advertising, is towards more conspicuous slider form.

Features and Design

Where previously offered mobile operators a design, appearance and color, modern consumers are now confronted with an astonishingSeries of decisions by changing and includes tailored to mono and polyphonic ringtones. There is also a hybrid PDA-phones that combine the portability of a wireless phone with the convenience of scheduling, calendar and PIM functions to mobile road warriors.

A very common feature for mobile phones is now color display. Are in fact, 41 percent of all mobile phones sold in Hong Kong today with a display of a kind. In China, mobile phones with a 4,096-color display are theNorm. In fact the Siemens phones of the future, paving way for one of the first mobile phone company, color display in its S10 mobile phone with the introduction in 1997. Without doubt, it was a milestone - just five years before the introduction of the S10, monochrome screens, mobile phones were the only ones available on the market.

The phenomenal growth is due to the rapid development of mobile technology. As a result, the manufacturers and designersto dream of freedom and the opportunity to unusual and sometimes surprisingly beautiful designs.