Electronics Essay

            It’s 2018, and we live in a time where electronics are a vital point in everyone’s lives.  Every single daily task we do involves some form of electronics.  Even school has transitioned from paper and pencil to computer.  In my opinion, the most important electronic device we use in the cell phone.  The cell phone is one of the most complex, and everchanging pieces of technology humans use in their daily lives.  Anyone you run into has a cell phone, whether it be an older flip phone, or a new smart phone.  Right there I’ve already established two types of phones we see today, but the history of the cell phone goes way back, back before anyone could’ve ever imaged what technology could be used today.
            The modern-day cell phone has roots that go back to the 1870’s.  In 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the first phone.   Alexander Graham Bell’s invention not only brought a new form of technology to the market, it changed the way we would communicate forever.  The next technological advancement to the phone was the rotary dialing system.  It was a big change from Graham Bell’s original phone.  Now that more people were getting phones in their homes, the rotary dialing system allowed calls to be made to different phone numbers. 
            Since the rotary phones, minor advancements were made.  American families typically had a phone in their homes, usually in the kitchen. Everything changed in 1973 when Motorola created the first mobile telephone.  This was a game changer, because now people could make calls while traveling, something that was never heard of in the past.  Before this, the closest alternative was phone boxes or phones stationed on sidewalks.  As years went on, the original Motorola mobile phone was updated, and other companies tried to replicate.  The goal was to make it as mobile as possible, so that meant making it smaller. In 1992, the first prototype of a smartphone was created.  Since then, the smartphone has evolved into the modern-day cell phone we know today.
In 2007, Apple released their first generation of the “iPhone.” This was groundbreaking.  Apple had always been a computer company in the past, and now they were producing phones that had all the same functions as a computer.  Since 2007, various changes have been made.  In the past, the goal was to make the phone the smallest, now companies are fighting over who can make it the biggest.  The market wants to see bigger screens with more functions.  It’s funny to look back at the evolution of phones, and to see how it went from so large, to so small, back to large.
The cell phone is by far the most influential electronic device in today’s day and age.  Everyone has one, and we do so much with them.  You can make calls, go on the internet, or text with mass groups of friends. Without the invention of Alexander Graham Bell, the modern-day cell phone wouldn’t be the same as it is today.