Mobiles and Mobile applications are an important part of daily life. Humans have become dependent on mobile and its apps. A few years back individuals needed a PC to surf the web and browse their email. However, with the boom of mobiles and smartphones, everything has become easier. All your essential websites have apps.

By using these applications, a business is bound to get built up and accomplish brand value. Company based mobile applications are likewise a popular source of marketing. 

The Journey of Mobile Phones 

Mobile communication has a long history. While it was never initially envisioned as a hand-held device, it has evolved a lot. The following timeline captures most of the significant historical moments in the evolution of mobile phones. Read on to find out.

1926: The first mobile telephone service was started for the passengers of the Deutsche Reichsbahn between Berlin and Hamburg.

1946: The first call made on a vehicle radiotelephone in Chicago. 

1956: The main automated cell phone service for private vehicles launched in Sweden. 

1969: The Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) Group was created. 

1973: The first call made via a completely ‘mobile’ phone. It weighed 1.1kg and was made by Motorola.

1982: European nations gathered to figure out whether a Europe-wide digital cellular phone system was possible. The group adopted the nordic model of cooperation and laid the foundation of an international standard.

1987: The Technical determinations for the GSM standard were made. It focuses on operability across the countries with enhanced bandwidth and better calls quality and cost-effective.

1992: The world's first SMS was sent in the UK.

1998: The first ringtone was sold to cell phones and it was developed by Finland's Radiolinja.

1999: Emojis were developed by Shigetaka Kurita in Japan. 

2003: The 3G standard began launching around the world, and it was the rise of smartphones.

2009: O2 openly declared that it had successfully tested a 4G connection using six LTE, in the UK, with the help of  Huawei, accomplished a downlink of 150Mbps. 

2019-2020-5G innovation is the up and coming age of remote interchanges. It is relied upon to give Internet associations that are least multiple times quicker than 4G LTE. It is relied upon to make a big appearance in 2020. 

Mobile Operating Systems 

Android

Android is a Linux-based working framework originally planned essentially for contact based-screens cell phones, for example, cell phones and tablet PCs. After its acquisition by Google, Android developed into one of the most customizable operating systems of all time. Today Android powers almost 90% of smartphones around the world. The best part, it’s free.

Types of Android OS till now 

• Android 1.0 

• Android 1.1 

• Android 1.5 Cupcake 

• Android 1.6 Donut 

• Android 2.0 Eclair 

• Android 2.2 Froyo 

• Android 2.3 Gingerbread 

• Android 3.0 Honeycomb 

• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich 

•  Android 4.1 Jelly Bean 

•  Android 4.4 KitKat 

•  Android 5.0 Lollipop 

•  Android 6.0 Marshmallow 

•  Android 7.0 Nougat 

•  Android 8.0 Oreo 

•  Android 9 Pie 

•  Android 10 

iOS

iOS (once in the past iPhone OS) is a Mobile working framework made and created by Apple Inc. solely for its equipment. It is the working framework that powers a large number of the organization's cell phones, including the iPhone, and iPod Touch; it additionally fueled the iPad preceding the presentation of iPadOS in 2019. It is the second most well known portable working framework comprehensively after Android. 

Kinds of iOS OS till now 

• iPhone OS 1 

• iPhone OS 2 

• iPhone OS 3 

• iOS 4 

• iOS 5 

• iOS 6 

• iOS 7 

• iOS 8 

• iOS 9 

• iOS 10 

• iOS 11 

• iOS 12 

•  iOS 13 

MobileApps 

A mobile application is generally known as the app. An app is a software specially designed for mobiles. These apps help in making our life a bit easier. The app helps in productivity, and entertainment, sports, fitness, and other daily utilities. Social media is one of the most popular fields of mobile app development.

Native Apps

Native Apps are specifically developed for a particular operative system. They can directly be installed on a mobile device. All the user has to do is download and install from the marketplace such as App Store or from Google Play.

Mobile Web Apps

Mobile web apps are the Apps that don’t need to be downloaded. They run on the browser and require internet connectivity to run the specific tasks.

Hybrid Apps

Hybrid applications are a blend of Native and Mobile web applications. Like Native applications, they live in an app store. Like web applications, they depend on HTML being rendered in a program, with the warning that the program is installed inside the application. 

Progressive Web Apps

PWA is the apps that run in the browser just like a website, but it has access to all features of the mobile app and gave an app-like feel. In simple words, web apps that are run in the browser using web technologies but they feel and behave like native apps. It can be used offline with limited capabilities and it can also use app notification to send messages to the user. 

Conclusion

Mobile phones are likely to develop more over the years. It is surprising how fast mobile phones have evolved. Even computers have been theorized for nearly 200 years before a working one was built. The origin of a mobile phone lay in a portable calling device. However, it has evolved into a mini-computer that can make phone calls. Where do we go from here? It’s difficult to predict. That’s all for this blog post. Good day!