Article by jennifer dsouza

Technology has become cheaper as time has passed. What we would have paid thousands of dollars for a few years ago is today available as an addon, and this is true in any market, including the cell phone market. Here are three cell phone technologies that we used to marvel at a few decades ago and are today common even in first time buyer markets.

Color Screens:

When the first color screens came out, they literally painted the towns red with the news. Having a color screen mobile was a status symbol and definitely much more expensive than the dull and drab black and white screen phones. Some people were apprehensive of buying color mobile phones because they thought that the cost of replacing any part or repairing it would prove to be quite expensive. But with the increasing usage and demand of color screen mobile phones, they are here to stay.

WAP:

Before there was 3G, there was GPRS, and before there was GPRS, there was WAP. WAP was the granddaddy of all mobile Internet connections, it could be compared to the Doom or Quake of the gaming industry – because without the marginal success of WAP, GPRS would not have taken birth and we would not have the craze of apps and mobile computing today. WAP was right out of a typical geek’s dream, where they could connect online and browse websites while on the go. Remember, this was a time when even the most major of websites had not even thought about having mobile sites, one would simply have to get happy by reading the text version of the site.

Mobile Games:

If mobile computing and devices have yet to break through in a market, it is gaming. They have sauntered into shopping, education, entertainment, news, etc but they yet have to come up with a service or product that would make mobile gaming interesting and ‘in’. When mobile games were first launched, people had to buy them to play, and with color screens the market got a new buoyance. Of course, it all petered down when people found out that they did not have that much time to play a game while traveling, and today most of the games are available for free.

These are the top three technologies and services that have seen their downfall in the past decade.

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Technology has become cheaper as time has passed. What we would have paid thousands of dollars for a few years ago is today available as an addon, and this is true in any market, including the cell phone market. Here are three cell phone technologies that we used to marvel at a few decades ago and are today common even in first time buyer markets.

Color Screens:

When the first color screens came out, they literally painted the towns red with the news. Having a color screen mobile was a status symbol and definitely much more expensive than the dull and drab black and white screen phones. Some people were apprehensive of buying color mobile phones because they thought that the cost of replacing any part or repairing it would prove to be quite expensive. But with the increasing usage and demand of color screen mobile phones, they are here to stay.

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WAP:

Before there was 3G, there was GPRS, and before there was GPRS, there was WAP. WAP was the granddaddy of all mobile Internet connections, it could be compared to the Doom or Quake of the gaming industry – because without the marginal success of WAP, GPRS would not have taken birth and we would not have the craze of apps and mobile computing today. WAP was right out of a typical geek’s dream, where they could connect online and browse websites while on the go. Remember, this was a time when even the most major of websites had not even thought about having mobile sites, one would simply have to get happy by reading the text version of the site.

Mobile Games:

If mobile computing and devices have yet to break through in a market, it is gaming. They have sauntered into shopping, education, entertainment, news, etc but they yet have to come up with a service or product that would make mobile gaming interesting and ‘in’. When mobile games were first launched, people had to buy them to play, and with color screens the market got a new buoyance. Of course, it all petered down when people found out that they did not have that much time to play a game while traveling, and today most of the games are available for free.

These are the top three technologies and services that have seen their downfall in the past decade.