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  2. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile phones than wired devices. [1] The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the ...

  3. Advanced Mobile Phone System - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) was an analog mobile phone system standard originally developed by Bell Labs and later modified in a cooperative effort between Bell Labs and Motorola. It was officially introduced in the Americas on October 13, 1983, [1][2][3] and was deployed in many other countries too, including Israel in 1986, Australia ...

  4. Comparison of mobile phone standards - Wikipedia

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    In 3G, the most prevalent technology was UMTS with CDMA-2000 in close contention. All radio access technologies have to solve the same problems: to divide the finite RF spectrum among multiple users as efficiently as possible. GSM uses TDMA and FDMA for user and cell separation. UMTS, IS-95 and CDMA-2000 use CDMA.

  5. Mobile phone feature - Wikipedia

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    Mobile phone feature. Hardware-side view of a typical smartphone. A mobile phone feature is a capability, service, or application that a mobile phone offers to its users. Mobile phones are often referred to as feature phones, and offer basic telephony. [clarification needed] Handsets with more advanced computing ability through the use of ...

  6. Timing advance - Wikipedia

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    Timing Advance is significant for privacy and communications security, as its combination with other variables can allow GSM localization to find the device's position and track the mobile phone user. TA is also used to adjust transmission power in space-division multiple access systems. This limited the original range of a GSM cell site to 35 ...

  7. Personal digital assistant - Wikipedia

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    The Palm TX. A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. Following a boom in the 1990s and 2000s, PDA's were mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of more highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android in the late 2000's, and thus saw a rapid decline.

  8. Cell phone's calculator saves you from the 'per-unit shaft' - AOL

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    If you carry a cell phone, you also have a calculator. Pretty much every mobile phone on the market has one, so you have no excuse not to do some intelligent per-unit math while you're out shopping.

  9. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    A mobile phone or cell phone[a] is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone). The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator, which provides ...