First Generation Cell Phone

Brian Cain

Specifications and Schematic

• 2003 release

• Candy bar style

• Color Display: 96 X 65 pixels, 12-bit

• Up to 3 hour talk time

• 1xRTT data transfer at max 153 kbit/s

• 445KB of memory for media storage

• Text messages

• Media messages?

• Web browsing (WML only)

What can it do?

• Phone calls

• Contacts list

• Calendar/Alarm

• PC synchronization

• Games

83% of American adults have cell phones, approximately 234 million people*

As of June 2011, about 79 million people owned smartphones*

Users

Many non-smartphone users; typically older, poorer, less educated and living in rural areas**

Library Users

SMS messaging to phone with many OPACs

*from comScore, INC.

**from Pew Research Center

• Cheap

• Simple interface

• Performs basic functions

Benefits and Drawbacks• No access to

sophisticated websites

• No ability to utilize mobile applications

• Limited data transfer and storage options