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How I met your mother’s smartphone

08 Aug 2016 03:55PM (Updated: 16 Sep 2016 09:44AM)
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How I met your mother’s smartphone

Source: imdb.com 5G network technology will soon be upon us — but do you remember life before 3G? Words: Marguerita Tan Whether you’re looking for a mobile plan that grants you student perks or a plan with high data allocation and no contract, Singtel has the mobile plan Imagine being able to download the Suicide Squad movie to your mobile phone — in full Ultra HD 4K resolution — in just 10 seconds. Now, regardless of whether you think one should download DC’s latest attempt at out-Marvel-ing Marvel, you have to admit: That meta human download time is pretty impressive. And it’ll soon be a reality. In four years, Singtel plans on being one of the first in the world to deploy a high-capacity 5G mobile network that will allow for quicker content downloading and uploading. It is expected to be at least 10 times faster (10gbps) than current 4G.
Source: tumblr.com Phone systems for cars and trains are first made available in countries such as Sweden and parts of America, using cell towers, rotary dials and actual human beings using switchboards to manually connect your calls. Rotary phones don't fit in your pocket, but they do make for great opening titles in Alfred Hitchcock movies. 1965: GET SMART
AT&T introduces IMTS (Improved Mobile Telephone Service), which uses radio channels to allow calls via rental equipment and without the manual assistance of an operator. Television introduces the idea of a shoe being a secret agent’s mobile phone — which is great idea if you like the idea of standing on one foot while mother tells you what brand of milk to buy. 1973: SCIENCE FICTION COME TRUE
Motorola presents the world’s first handheld mobile phone. It’s a brick-like prototype that weighed almost 1kg, so a phone conversation also doubled as a workout. It took 10 hours to recharge ... which was amazing back in the day so it made it to the cover of Popular Science magazine. A pushbutton telephone?! Get outta here! 1983: THE BIRTH OF 1G
Source: tumblr.com The world’s first commercial mobile phone, the DynaTAC 8000x, is launched on the first US 1G analog cellular network. You may throw your head back and laugh at the thought of a 1G network, but back then, the world watched Gordon Gecko being evil into his massive mobile phone in Wall Street and thought: “I need me one of that.” 1990s: IT COULD HAVE SAVED ROSS AND RACHEL
The world’s first 2G digital cellular systems, GSM and CDMA, are born. In the process, we are first introduced to SMS and text messaging. Everyone suddenly had an amazingly convenient new way to communicate — everyone, that is, except for Ross and Rachel. That legendary “we were on a break” debacle that we are still enduring decades later, thanks to reruns, box-sets and streaming, would never have happened if the two Friends had simply texted each other. He thought she was sleeping with someone else and she couldn’t call him back to explain because he was using a public telephone. One SMS would have saved them — and us — years of trauma. 1992: GET SMART PHONE
IBM introduces the world’s first smartphone, the IBM Simon: A mobile phone that is also a pager, PDA and fax machine all rolled into one. Simon makes an appearance in that Sandra Bullock movie The Net. Unfortunately, its talents are sorely under-appreciated by the main baddie, who is too busy terrorising poor Sandy to stop and fax someone. 2000s: 3G, BABY
Offering higher connection speeds, 3G mobile broadband technology paves the way for convenient Internet access, and media streaming of radio and TV content, on 3G handsets. A 10MB file still takes about 41 seconds to download though. Which is probably why Neo still had to travel by landline in The Matrix. 2012: DATA ON THE GO
More than five times faster than 3G, 4G (LTE) offers users higher quality and more consistent mobile data experience for smartphones, laptops and tablets. A 10MB file now takes less than one second to download. The world celebrates this new technology by watching Gangnam Style 2.6 billion times on YouTube. Adapted from the feature story Connect the Future on ChannelNewsAsia.com
Source: TODAY
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