MY HANDY DANDY CELLPHONE .. ;)

Mobile phones or cellular phones known as one of the most popular, influential and well –known gadget for communication ever made. With its small size it comes with big features. As time goes by there were a lot of discoveries and improvements  made to enhance and maximize the capability and power of mobile phones

The history of mobile phones begins with early efforts to develop radio telephone technology and from two-way radios in vehicles and continues through emergence of modern mobile phones and associated services.

Radiophones have a long and varied history going back to Reginald Fessenden's invention and shore-to-ship demonstration of radio telephony, through the Second World War with military use of radio telephony links and civil services in the 1950s, while hand-held mobile radio devices have been available since 1973. Mobile phone history is often divided into generations (first, second, third and so on) to mark significant step changes in capabilities as the technology improved over the years.

First generation: Cellular networks

The main technological development that distinguished the First Generation mobile phones from the previous generation was the use of multiple cell sites, and the ability to transfer calls from one site to the next as the user travelled between cells during a conversation. The first commercially automated cellular network (the 1G generation) was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979. The initial launch network covered the full metropolitan area of Tokyo's over 20 million inhabitants with a cellular network of 23 base stations. Within five years, the NTT network had been expanded to cover the whole population of Japan and became the first nation-wide 1G network.

Second generation: Digital networks

In the 1990s, the 'second generation' (2G) mobile phone systems emerged, primarily using the GSM standard. These 2G phone systems differed from the previous generation in their use of digital transmission instead of analog transmission, and also by the introduction of advanced and fast phone-to-network signaling. The rise in mobile phone usage as a result of 2G was explosive and this era also saw the advent of prepaid mobile phones

Third generation: High speed IP data networks

As the use of 2G phones became more widespread and people began to utilise mobile phones in their daily lives, it became clear that demand for data services (such as access to the internet) was growing. Furthermore, experience from fixed broadband services showed there would also be an ever increasing demand for greater data speeds. The 2G technology was nowhere near up to the job, so the industry began to work on the next generation of technology known as 3G. The main technological difference that distinguishes 3G technology from 2G technology is the use of packet switching rather than circuit switching for data transmission[21]. In addition, the standardization process focused on requirements more than technology (2 Mbit/s maximum data rate indoors, 384 kbit/s outdoors, for example).

Growth of mobile broadband and the emergence of 4G

Although mobile phones had long had the ability to access data networks such as the Internet, it was not until the widespread availability of good quality 3G coverage in the mid 2000s that specialised devices appeared to access the mobile internet. The first such devices, known as "dongles", plugged directly into a computer through the USB port. Another new class of device appeared subsequently, the so-called "compact wireless router" such as the Novatel MiFi, which makes 3G internet connectivity available to multiple computers simultaneously over Wi-Fi, rather than just to a single computer via a USB plug-in.

( resource of history and evolution www.wikipedia.com  )

               

Some features of a common mobile phones were for the use of texting and calling. But as time passed by, evolution of mobile phones were made, such as it can be used for capturing videos and still pictures, music and sound playback and even surfing the internet in just one click away of your cellphones.

But of course this handheld gadgets cause a lot of issues nowadays. Since almost every person Especially in Philippines are using mobile phones, they already maximize its features specially for texting. Network providers offers a lot of promos for texting, calling and internet surfing. And because of this people tend to abuse this offers. They use this for spamming of messages and become the root of scamming, phising of personal  information and even use to threat someone. Those were just only few things that they can do using their mobile phones and using its text features.

                                                     ( some examples of mobile phones )

                             ( source:  www.flickr.com/photo/backfrompari/2231253010 )

                                  

One of the latest issue nowadays specially for teenagers is what they called “ JEJEMONS “ , it is a pop culture phenomenon in the Philippines. Jejemons are defined by  Dictionary as those "who has managed to subvert the English language to the point of incomprehensibility and online lynch squads. A Jejemon is described as one of a "new breed of hipsters who have developed not only their own language and written text but also their own sub-culture and fashion.

The word "Jejemon" supposedly originated from online users' penchant to type in "hehehe" as "jejeje", either because "jeje" is derived from Spanish, whose speakers denote the interjection as laughter, or because the letters "h" and "j" are beside each other, and that it is appended by "-mon" that came from the Japanese anime Pokémon, with "-mon" meant as "monster," hence "jeje monsters

The origins of short-handed typing was through the short messaging service, in which each text message is limited to 160 characters. As a result, an "SMS language" developed in which words were shortened in order to fit the 160-character limit. Although some jejemons aren't really "conserving" characters instead they are lengthening it. The Jejemons are said to be the new "jologs", a term used for Filipinos of the lower income class. Jejemons are often attributed to be of inferior intellect, but this belief may be wrong as a number of them exist in exclusive schools, science high schools and popular colleges. The parameters of being classified as a Jejemon are still unclear, and how the different "levels" of "Jejemonism" are reached, although there are named levels such as "mild," "moderate" and "severe" or "terminal.

Examples: ( source www.wikipedia.com )

§  Filipino: "3ow ph0w, mUsZtAh nA?" translated into Filipino as "Hello po, kamusta na?, translated into English as "Hello, how are you?"

§  English: "i wuD LLyK tO knOw moR3 bOut u. crE 2 t3ll mE yur N@me? jejejejeje!" translated into English as "I would like to know more about you, care to tell me your name? Hehehehe!"

§  aQcKuHh- means me/ako

§  lAbqCkyOuHh- means I love you

§  yuHh- means you

§  jAjaJa- garbled words conveying laughter

§  jeJejE- a variation of jAjaJa; conveys sly laughter

§  iMiszqcKyuH- means I miss you

§  eEoWpFhUeEhsxz - means hi/hello

Initial reaction to the Jejemons is irritation and bewilderment. In many social networking sites, Jejemons are likely to encounter hate; some had seen their Facebook wall with people wishing their death. Several Facebook fan pages were created both in support and against the group. However, celebrities such as Rico Blanco, Alessandra de Rossi, Ces Drilon, and Lourd de Veyra have condemned the wholesale ridicule of the subculture.

YouTube videos were also uploaded parodying the Jejemons, connecting them to the current election campaign. Edited television advertisements of Nacionalista Party proclaiming their disdain for Jejemons, and an edited photograph of Gilberto Teodoro with him holding a sign saying that the Jejemons be "brought back to elementary school" went viral. ( source www.wikipedia.com )

As part of the pre-school year clean-up of schools for the upcoming 2010-11 school year, the Department of Education (DepEd) strongly discourages students from using Jejemon spelling and grammar, especially in text messaging. Communicating with other using Jejemon are said to cause deterioration of young Filipino students’ language skills.

Over all using mobile phones or anything is ok, but of course abusing it is a different issue. J