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A Call from the Past - 10 Years of Mobile Phone Development
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- By 2006, it was inevitable that almost every new phone came with an integrated camera and was able to support multimedia playback in one form or another. Truetones, meaning ringtones that used the MP3 format, had already started back in 2005 amongst the lineups of the year, and at this point in time, the adoption of the 3G network came into place. Promising faster GPRS speeds and a wider coverage that included Japan and Korea that required handset rentals should you be roaming to those two countries, the 3G wave gained a strong following in the years preceding and beyond 2006. Though the imaging sensor has not had a vast improvement then, the Sony Ericsson W900i mobile phone's main focus was audio fidelity, 3G connectivity, and most importantly, smooth video playback.
- On the storage aspect, both the Samsung SGH-i300x and the Nokia N91 were one of the first few devices with internal storage of up to 4GB. Yes, that was a whooping 4GB worth of storage capacity that allowed you to store up to 3000 songs, which is also just as impressive if it was for video storage. The mobile entertainment business was definitely taken to a whole new level with the introduction of internal storage on devices that supported a wide variety of audio and video formats. Furthermore, Wi-Fi support on standard mobile phones were becoming widespread and with a strong Wi-Fi infrastructure within Singapore by 2007, this was another defining point of the mobile phone evolution.
- The aesthetic nature of mobile phones has gone through much upheaval and design changes over the years. With the aim to create smaller and thinner phones that would be of no added burden to the user, design considerations were along the lines of lighter phones too. And in this aspect, Samsung embarked on its Ultra Edition series of thin and lightweight phones, such as the Samsung SGH-X820 Ultra Edition.
- Not forgetting that cameras remained a top priority amongst consumers, the 5-megapixel race started off, and LG came into the picture with their 5-megapixel offering, the LG KG920.
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