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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (490251)	6/23/2009 4:34:52 PM
From: HPilot	Respond to of 1573691

America pioneered cell phone technology. It's only natural for Americans to keep the holdover phrase "cell phone." Cells are not mobiles, which is an earlier technology with limited range. we probably invented that as well as the original wired phone.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (490251)	6/24/2009 5:57:06 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573691

ed, > BTW speaking of cell phones, do you realize we are the only country that calls cell phones cells? Most countries call them mobiles which actually makes more sense when you think about it. America pioneered cell phone technology. It's only natural for Americans to keep the holdover phrase "cell phone." Okay. Hugh made a good point that the original cell phones were not very mobile........hence the difference in terms with what the Brits and others call mobiles. But then I saw his answer to your lastest post where he's saying that mobiles were invented before cells. So now I am confused. And you're saying that we pioneered the tech. but Nokia and Ericsson, Finnish and Swedish firms, are some of the biggest producers of cell phones. Were they not involved in the pioneering as well?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (490251)	7/3/2009 1:16:08 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573691

Ted, > BTW speaking of cell phones, do you realize we are the only country that calls cell phones cells? Most countries call them mobiles which actually makes more sense when you think about it. America pioneered cell phone technology. It's only natural for Americans to keep the holdover phrase "cell phone." The first wireless phone was invented in 1908 by an American but the first commercial network applications were started by the Japanese and Europeans in the late 1970s and 1980s: "The first commercial citywide cellular network was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979. Fully automatic cellular networks were first introduced in the early to mid 1980s (the 1G generation). The Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system went online in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1981.[9] Personal Handy-phone System mobiles and modems used in Japan around 1997-2003In 1983, Motorola DynaTAC was the first approved mobile phone by FCC in the United States. In 1984, Bell Labs developed modern commercial cellular technology (based, to a large extent, on the Gladden, Parelman Patent), which employed multiple, centrally controlled base stations (cell sites), each providing service to a small area (a cell). The cell sites would be set up such that cells partially overlapped. In a cellular system, a signal between a base station (cell site) and a terminal (phone) only need be strong enough to reach between the two, so the same channel can be used simultaneously for separate conversations in different cells. Cellular systems required several leaps of technology, including handover, which allowed a conversation to continue as a mobile phone traveled from cell to cell. This system included variable transmission power in both the base stations and the telephones (controlled by the base stations), which allowed range and cell size to vary. As the system expanded and neared capacity, the ability to reduce transmission power allowed new cells to be added, resulting in more, smaller cells and thus more capacity. The evidence of this growth can still be seen in the many older, tall cell site towers with no antennae on the upper parts of their towers. These sites originally created large cells, and so had their antennae mounted atop high towers; the towers were designed so that as the system expanded—and cell sizes shrank—the antennae could be lowered on their original masts to reduce range. A 1991 GSM mobile phoneThe first "modern" network technology on digital 2G (second generation) cellular technology was launched by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Group) in 1991 in Finland on the GSM standard which also marked the introduction of competition in mobile telecoms when Radiolinja challenged incumbent Telecom Finland (now part of TeliaSonera) who ran a 1G NMT network. The first data services appeared on mobile phones starting with person-to-person SMS text messaging in Finland in 1993. First trial payments using a mobile phone to pay for a Coca Cola vending machine were set in Finland in 1998. The first commercial payments were mobile parking trialled in Sweden but first commercially launched in Norway in 1999. The first commercial payment system to mimic banks and credit cards was launched in the Philippines in 1999 simultaneously by mobile operators Globe and Smart. The first content sold to mobile phones was the ringing tone, first launched in 1998 in Finland. The first full internet service on mobile phones was i-Mode introduced by NTT DoCoMo in Japan in 1999. In 2001 the first commercial launch of 3G (Third Generation) was again in Japan by NTT DoCoMo on the WCDMA standard.[10] Until the early 1990s, following introduction of the Motorola MicroTAC, most mobile phones were too large to be carried in a jacket pocket, so they were typically installed in vehicles as car phones. With the miniaturization of digital components and the development of more sophisticated batteries, mobile phones have become smaller and lighter." en.wikipedia.org