History of Mobile Technology
•Over the last ten years, mobile phones have gone through several incremental technology leaps that
have added capabilities that impact the retail industry. I've
listed the six major ones below, along with their long-lasting impact.
•Define Mobile Technology
• are the technologies platforms that are developed for and used
on mobile devices. In essence you can
develop mobile technology on a
computer or mobile device to create another
mobile technology.
•History
The earliest mobile apps from retailers
made it easy to find nearby stores, and companies are
looking at ways to use Wi-Fi triangulation inside
stores.
. Computer VisionIn 1997 Philippe Kahn shared a photo of his newborn using a
mobile phone thus launching the popularity
of instant visual communications. Over the
years the quality of the cameras got better, reaching the point where barcodes could be read around 2008.
• First commercial cellphone
•A decade after Cooper made that first call, the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission approved Motorola's
DynaTAC phone for public use. In 1984, the first
DynaTACs became available for consumers.
•Cellphone cameras- In 2002, the first phones with
built-in cameras became publicly available,
including the Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300. The Nokia phone
boasted "a large 176x208 pixel colour display,"
according to a media release at the time.
-The Sanyo version offered three user controlled tones, white balance and
zoom.Today's iPhone 5, in contrast, offers an
eight-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash
and built-in face detection.