Advances and Developments within Mobile Technology

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Advances and Developments within Mobile Technology
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Introduction
Being invented in the end of the twentieth century, the mobile devices as well as
technology has been evolved a lot. From the first handheld mobile communication devices
that weighted almost 800 grams (developed by Motorola) and lasted only for 30 minutes to
the latest devices that lasts almost two days even after extensive use of high end games and
applications, the devices became one of the necessary parts of every day’s life. Right from
the beginning when Alexander Graham Bell had invented the telephone, the inventors had
started working on a mobile version on the technology (Rothman, Gupta and McEvoy 2017).
In the year 1987, mobile telephones became international as the devices were able to be
codified into a GSM standard, which was able to support interoperability between the
carriers. Ever since then, the entire technology of mobile devices has fallen under the radar of
inventors to make constant developments in the technology (Lamberton and Stephen 2016).
The following report would thus focus on the evolution of mobile technology from the
ubiquitous computing paradigm with the description of the current development on the
mobile devices, the applications in them, and the challenges they pose to the digital forensic
practitioners.
History of mobile phones and its evolution
The first handheld mobile publically released in 1983-84 that was modified version
of the first prototype released by Motorola in 1973 was Motorola dynatac 8000x. It allowed a
total call time up to 60 minutes for which the device needs to charge up to 10 hours to use it
for next time (Furht and Ahson 2016). On the other hand, AT&T and the Bell Labs had
offered the use of limited mobile telephone services for their customers at St. Louis,
Missouri. In the evolution process the developeddevices were feature mobile devices,
multimedia devices and lastly the smart phones/devices. Mobile phones have ever since then

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taken a giant leap forward. After the mobile phones were able to be coded through the GSM
services, the technology around the globe was able to be codified initiating the world’s first
SMS being sent in Britain.
The evolution had led to the year 1999, when BlackBerry was introduced to the world
and it created a huge wave for the network connectivity used for business purposes (Bar,
Weber and Pisani 2016). Gradually at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it was found
that the advanced mobile technology was being used worldwide by the general mass for not
just the voice calling facilities but also for the various features being included in the
technological advancements made on the mobile devices. The mobile devices were utilized
by the mass in this time for emailing and even limited text based web services.
Current developments on mobile devices and applications
After the first iPhone was launched with iOS in 2007 followed by the Android OS in
2008, the advanced mobile technology became omnipresent in the lives of people (Nikou
2015). Higher bandwidth to provide faster communication and the urge to go even faster has
given rise to the 4G technologies that are currently being used right now worldwide, making
way for the 5G technology with higher bandwidth following suit. Presently the mobile
devices are changing in order to meet the user requirements such as flexible Design of the
device as well as newer form factors. Such as foldable mobile devices, AI enabled
application that makes the device to recognize its owner. In addition to that, devices are now
equipped with the application that can render AR or the Augmented Reality that will provide
enhanced user experience (Lee et al. 2016). The devices are becoming much sleeker with
every passing time and then the devices have started to evolve in their functionalities as well.
The transitions that the inventors have led on to the mobile devices are affecting the lives of