Growth of Mobile
1956: this is the year when the very first fully automatic mobile system was developed. This was only a little over 50 years ago. Today, touch-screens and mini-computer-phones are dominating the technological landscape. How will our landscape look like in another 50 years from now? A fascinating question…
In 1973, the first handheld phone was created. A phone almost the size of a kettle, weighting 2 pounds and crowned with a big antenna. This phone cost about 4000 dollars at the time, an equivalent of about 19,000 dollars today. Mobile phones were very much inaccessible, luxurious gadgets to have. 36 years later, in 2009, 1.2 billion mobile phones were sold. A number that is equivalent to almost 1/6th of the world’s entire population…
Between January and March 2010 – that is, in only 3 months – 314.7 million phones were sold, of which 54.3 million were smartphones. 19% of all phones sold today are smartphones, and this percentage keeps growing and growing. Since the launch of the first iPhone in 2007, about 60 million of them were sold; iPhones are taking an increasingly bigger place in every aspect of our lives, including the workplace as well.
The competition for mobile technology is fiercely on. The Android phone, developed by giant Google is gaining a lot of popularity as well: 160,000 new Android smartphones are being activated each day. With this kind of mega-competition, advancement can only sharpen and opportunities widen.
Mobile technology is moving at the speed of light and becoming part of our everyday life like never before. This video shows how the world of the mobile phone has evolved in the span of half a century, with more numbers and figures that will blow your mind away.
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