The document traces the history and development of mobile technology from the first commercial mobile phone introduced in 1956 weighing 90 pounds to the introduction of smartphones and tablets in the 2000s. It discusses the transition to smaller devices, the introduction of 3G networks allowing mobile internet access, and projections that most internet users will have broadband access via mobile devices. The document also examines how some mobile websites do not compare well to their full desktop versions, while others provide enjoyable mobile experiences.

1. MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
Shaping today and the future

2. PRESENTED BY: JONATHAN E. OTTINGER
FUNDAMENTALS OF WEB DESIGN
PROJECT # 4
10/23/2011
FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY

3. In The Beginning
✴ First commercial mobile
phone introduced in
1956
✴ Actually weighed 90
pounds
This military radio
weighs 90 pounds

4. ✴ Second Generation
Technology introduced
in 1965
✴ Phone size cut in half
✴ First truly mobile to
mobile call in 1973
✴ First mobile network Phones continued to get smaller
debuted in 1990’s
✴ other media content
becomes accessible

5. 3-G INTRODUCED
• Mobile Web, Web 2.0
• unlimited texting & data
• Smartphones

6. SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS
U.S. Subscribers with broadband access on mobile devices went from 3M in ‘06 to 73M in
’08.

7. FUTURE PROJECTIONS

8. AN INTERNET FOR THE MOBILE USER

9. SOME MOBILE SITES DON’T ADD UP TO THEIR .COM PARENTS
Mobile site

10. SOME MOBILE SITES DON’T ADD UP TO THEIR .COM PARENTS
Parent site

11. SOME MOBILE SITES DON’T ADD UP TO THEIR .COM PARENTS
Mobile site

12. SOME MOBILE SITES DON’T ADD UP TO THEIR .COM PARENTS
Parent site

13. OTHERS MAKE MOBILE AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE
Parent site

14. OTHERS MAKE MOBILE AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE
Mobile site

15. OTHERS MAKE MOBILE AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE
Parent site

16. OTHERS MAKE MOBILE AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE
Mobile site

17. REFERENCES
http://www.mobilenetx.com/mobile-internet/the-history-of-mobile-technology-it-all-started-with-the-telephone.html
http://www.mobilefuture.org/resources
Additional Pictures
www.armyradio.com
www.mobile--phone.net
www.designzzz.com