mobile phones

1. Which company launched the first mobile phone?

a) Motorola
b) Nokia
c) Samsung

Its first mobile phone was called the DynaTAC 8000X. It only boasted of one-hour talk time and eight hours of standby time, so that if one wanted it 24 hours a day, one would have to charge up three sets of batteries every day.

2. Which film first featured a mobile phone?

a) Wedding Planner
b) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
c) 16 Candles

The English film 16 Candles. It featured the DynaTAC 8000X. In it, Samantha Baker's lover
Jake Ryan has a cellular phone in his dad's Rolls Royce.

3. Who invented the camera mobile phone?

a) William Kelly
b) Philippe Kahn
c) Jeremy Watt

Philippe Kahn. Kahn invented the camera phone in June 1997. The first commercial camera phone was the J-SH04 made by Sharp Corporation and marketed by J-Phone (Vodafone) in Japan in November 2000.

4. What is the nickname for a large, obsolete mobile phone?

a) Radiophone
b) Vodaphone
c) Brick

In cellular terminology, it is referred to a large, heavy and usually obsolete mobile phone.

5. Who invented the mobile phone?

a) Adrian Girzone
b) Joel Engel
c) Martin Cooper

Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager at communications giant Motorola, is said to be the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make an analogue mobile phone call on a portable mobile phone in April1973.
The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. AT&T's research arm, Bell Laboratories, introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947. But Motorola was the first off the block with a mobile phone.

compiled by Suresh