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When referring to how quickly technology is advancing, electrical and electronic engineers tend to refer to Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law was really an observation made by the founder of Intel, Gordon Moore. He noted that the number of components in an integrated circuit (IC or micro chip) doubled every eighteen months (though later he modified this to twenty four months). It is surprising how accurate this estimate was; its progression has been unbroken for the last 35 years. What it effectively means is that processing power effectively doubles every two years.

This is precisely what we would have anticipated would happen in the mobile phone since the introduction of the early 1G models many years ago including the original i phone. These worked on analogue networks with some over-riding digital control, and all we could do with them was to make telephone calls.

As the years went by mobiles phones became progressively more sophisticated machines. With the introduction of 2G networks the phones changed from analogue to digital and many more functions became possible. Internet access and multi-media messaging became commonplace, though the experience was often frustrating due to mediocre levels of service and low data transfer rates. Still the phones became more sophisticated; the inclusion of cameras became commonplace as was the incorporation of MP3 players.

3G provided another step change, and the relentless Moore’s Law allowed phone manufacturers to turn out products that resembled mobile computers as much as they were mobile phones.
The product life cycle of a mobile phone is extremely short. It seems that no sooner has the latest must-have phone appeared on the market than a replacement model is just around the corner or an alternative manufacturer has launched something better. Phone’s seems to go out of date faster than clothes fashions.

The one area in which mobile phone technology has seen relatively slow development is in battery power. Although there have been significant improvements in battery technology, the speed of progress lags behind the rest of the components. In order to address this, some phone manufacturers are developing phones which can recharge themselves by harvesting energy from radio waves, phones that can convert mechanical movement to electrical power and solar chargeable phones. For more infomation visit phones4u

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