Thursday 14 November 2013

Mobile Phones

Mobile phones are one of the media output devices that have been benefited from the improvement of technology. Mobiles phones in the past would be considered a valuable commodity in everyone lives but in the present, Mobile Phones from the past would be considered to most now as "Bricks" due to the brick like qualities of mobile phones in the past. Mobiles phones of the past were bulky, wide(wider than the user's hand), hard to use and an aerial would be attached to it and the fact that the only thing you could with those phones are call and text and even play some mini-games like the very famous "snake" in some later models. However, mobile phones in the present have almost opposite qualities to the old mobile phones in the past. Mobiles phones in the present vary shape in different shapes and sizes and most phones are "bulky" in a way and the fact that aerials in most phones these days are just gone. The only thing that hasn't been removed from the past is the call and text feature that has been present in the past and until now. Instead of removing it, they have improved on this feature drastically compared to the feature back then. Mobile phones now have cameras compared to old phone, as these type of phones come into fashion, the producers of these phones would have to do something in order for people to buy their products. The way they did it, is that they improve it even more. The Cameras in phones have evolved into those of similar to those in High-tech cameras that professionals use. Other new features have also been developed into today's phones as well such as more powerful processors, and video capabilities have also been added to today's phones. All these  "improvements" have made phones similar to characteristics of PCs and laptops. This is because Mobile phones of today have made improvements that are over exceed expectations. Adding in like processors that are normally just used in PCs or laptops, able to browse the Internet with ease, having "touch screen"  and able to access some websites and software that are in normally in PCs as well hence giving these new phones the name "smart phones". Another thing that has been improved in mobiles is the gaming capabilities of mobile phones. Mobiles phones back then were only limited to games such as "snake" where the only objective of the game is to collect and chase random food that's scattered over the screen in 8-bit. The technology back then in mobile phones is so limited that it could only manage and to operate games such as "Snake" and "Space Impact". But, in phones these days, the range of games you can play from the is astounding and has made people go in awe due to the advancement. Mobile phones now can play games that would normally be played in computer could now be played in mobile phones because of the power that the processors in phones could do. Mobile phones today can also play old games from back then as well through the help of "emulators" and such. The downside it could not play some of the newer games in more advanced consoles as the power in consoles are more powerful compared to those in mobile phones. However, there are more and more mobile phones that are being developed in order to match the display power and processing powers of those in consoles in order to maximise the range of where games can be played.

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