The first model has not yet turned 40, but it looks like a museum piece. The dramatic changes that were achieved in a few years.

nearly four decades ago, Martin Cooper walked down a street in New York when he decided to call by phone. Actually, I wanted to test his invention. The electrical engineer Iliinois Institute of Technology and Motorola executive, took his DynaTAC 8000X (one unit weighed over kilo and a half and its battery lasted only 20 minutes) and scored. The device received signal and Cooper heard the voice of Joel Engel, head of Research and Development of the rival company, to tell from where he was making. Thus was made the first call from a cell phone.

The view in the corner a man talking to a ‘box’ to the ear caused surprise among the passersby, perhaps the same as Cooper would experience by watching Captain Kirk in an episode of Star Trek, using his portable communicator, which would be the inspiration to develop the system that would actually mobile.

The concept of mobile communications had been established since 1947 by Bell Laboratories, where he was Engel, but due to difficulties with the permission of the radio spectrum, the idea was not yet feasible. In 1960 Bell Laboratories and Motorola had decided to study the concept and implement the idea of ​​cell phone.

It was not until 1983 when the DynaTac, a ‘brick’ which weighed 780 grams and measuring 33 x 9 x 4.5 cm, obtained permission to leave the market, and that same year, implemented the first cellular system from a technology wherein the phone would send a signal to the receiving antennas. In those days an antenna covering 15 square blocks. As the user moved physically, the plant carrying the antenna signal on the air, so that the call had continuity.

The phone battery lasted eight hours in standby, and must be recharged for 10 hours. In the late eighties Motorola launched a series of phones that went to replace the DynaTAC 8000X. It was not until the nineties when these phones significantly reduced in size and counted with longer battery life, the screens were sharper and more color.

Cell Phone Protection

We have come a long way since the first mobile phones. The concept is not a new, in fact, in 1947 engineers Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young, Bell Labs, proposed hexagonal cells for mobile phones.

The actual implementation of mobile phones first came in the 80′s. At that time only the very rich or they could access it.

They were very large and heavy. It is not something to be carried in your pocket or purse, this was something that weighed a few kilos.

As great as they were, however, that didnít have a clear sound with them was a hassle. At first, all were designed for permanent installation in vehicles also known as a “car phone”.

Some of these bulky units were converted early to use as “transportable” phones the size of a briefcase. Motorola introduced the first truly portable, hand-held phone.

The first cellular phone call was made in the United States in 1990. Was considerably reduced.

Cell phones for analog phones only, for the sole purpose of offering consumers the ability to make and receive voice calls while traveling.

As technology has advanced so that the cell phone capabilities. They don’t just send and receive calls now are able to send text messages, email, take pictures and video clips.

The smaller sizes have been achieved however, his skills have improved.

As we continue to advance, so will the ability of cell phones. In the coming years, mobile phone networks move data at several megabits per second, and coexist with WiMax, Wi-Fi, and, for TV, DVB-H or MediaFLO.

I already discovered that Panasonic had not abandoned his plans to return to Europe with his business Smartphones. We can blame a new range of Android, which is that you can find their place in the old continent.

He does not say directly the Japanese company, but we read in Reuters Nikkei: Panasonic is currently negotiating with a major operator on the continent to land in early 2012. I remember a few days ago we learned that they were looking for a news agency specializing in mobile telephony.

No further details, but if they relate to major operators in the pools are Vodafone, Orange, or T-Mobile Telefonica/O2. After its introduction in Europe, the next step is America.

We do not know what to bring to Europe, but what they offer in Japan with NTT DoCoMo is quite interesting, with cameras and next generation hardware to match what we have here, also betting on different designs, more casual:

We told you also that the Japanese multinational also dare to Android tablets in 2012, but within the Toughpad resistant line with a couple of models to take into account when looking for a mini device.

Clearly one of the factors that most consumers care about mobile phones is the camera. Although they have not yet reached a level not even semi-professional because of the thinness of the device that prevents the overlapping of lenses and other more complex, their evolution has been remarkable and in many cases, the results are more than enough. But it is always possible to move forward.

Thus, the photography company Lytro introduced in October 2011, a technology that certainly would make a difference in the development in this sector. This is the camera Lytro, which basically relies on the free photo capture and post processing approach in the plane that most suits us, but all this depends on a set of variables, such as lens or software. The device stores the information of light in the whole plane, not only we want to focus-but the entire image. The program then allows you to click the area where the user sees fit, noting at the same time as the planes of focus and depth change in real time.

Structurally, Lytro camera has a LCD screen that helps the composition of the photo. Inside, a lens with a zoom of 8x magnification and two buttons on and off. The system is simple and as mentioned, basa their full potential in the software, which for now is only available for Mac. As technical data, the lens does not collect information on millions of pixels, but in millions of light beams, equivalent to 22 megapixels of what we commonly know.

Although the camera will be launched early this 2012, technology was not lost in the eyes of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who, according to a report by 9to5Mac site would have been very interested in applying to future gadgets company the apple. The full story can be read in the book “Inside Apple” by Adam Lashinsky, a publication that has just gone on sale and is now available on the Apple iBook Store.

About implementing this technology in existing mobile devices, one of the executives Lytro mentioned that “we have the capital and the ability to do so, and the vision to run it. Even if we were to apply this platform in the next generation smartphones, we take into account the complexity of the industry, and partnering with the right people to carry it out.”

Recall that the evolution of the lens of the iPhone has been gradual, and that since its launch in 2007, had a fixed focus lens, no video recording and 2 Mp sensor, while in its latest camera features 8 megapixels, video recording at 1080p and HDR light sensor.

Samsung preparing an event that would present a new device is March 22 in France, And you begin to hear many rumors about it once the invitations to this announcement have already started arriving in the French media technology.

Recall that the South Korean manufacturer, and confirm that I announce the long awaited Galaxy S3 in the coming MWC 2012 in Barcelona which starts later this October, but would be announced on Galaxy Plus S2 and a new Android tablet of 11.6 inches.

What we do know is that the Galaxy S3 hit the market just days after its official launch, which will be the middle of this year, but with the news of this event for March 22 in France, some things may change and the new flagship of Samsung arrive ahead of schedule to stores where they have already sold the previous Galaxy S .

So far the characteristics of the rumoredGalaxy S3 :
Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0.x accompanied by the interface Samsung TouchWiz .
4-core processor at 1.5GHz.
HD resolution screen.
2GB of RAM.
12MP camera back.

Samsung Electronics will release in March its new 7-inch digital tablet “Galaxy Tab 2″, with which it intends to continue to stand up to Apple in the market for smart devices, today announced the South Korean firm.The tech giant said Asia will present the “Galaxy Tab 2″ in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, a major trade fairs in the mobile industry, which takes place from February 27 to March 1.The new Samsung tablet, which will be available in both 3G and wifi, will be marketed first in the UK next month and later hit the rest of the world markets.

The Galaxy Tab 2 will feature the new version 4.0 of Google’s Android operating system known as “Ice Cream Sandwich” and two cameras, one front and one rear, the latter of 3 megapixels, advanced the company.To date, Samsung Electronics has commercialized two tablets, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and revised Galaxy Tab 10.1N, both of 10.1 inches, so the new device shows a substantial reduction in size only 7 inches.With this, Samsung aims to provide more functionality to your new tablet, according to South Korean multinational, may be used as an additional phone for video calls between several people.Samsung Electronics aims much of its efforts to meet growing global demand for smart devices, a sector in which it competes head to head with U.S. firm Apple.

The electronics division of Samsung Group closed the year 2011 with record sales of more than 146,000 million, up 7 percent from 2010, thanks to the high demand for their “smartphones” and tablets.

The music is playing everywhere, in many different ways. Winamp has a little responsibility for it, but want to further expand this spectrum. So comes Winamp and with it brings support for Android OS with wireless synchronization, promising an experience of audio and video for mobile intelligent rarely seen. Nor heard, of course.

Objectively speaking, in recent times Winamp application has become a somewhat heavy and substantial progress in its updates, which have not gone beyond attempts to improve its stability and sometimes reviled forced integration with the web, even having to put lite version available for fans to keep the lighter alternative. However, not fall into the folly of being indifferent to his maturity as a media player with a strong force earned based on trends that marked the past. Given this today and take advantage of the boom in smartphones, Nullsoft has released a version of Winamp for Android, the Google system that is revolutionizing the way we handled the smart phones.

This integration Android 2.1 is part of the output of Winamp 5.59 , the new version for computers that only reviews some bugs and adds support for Android and Wifi to 5.58. That version did include substantial improvements to streaming podcast , web interaction URL launcher, support for young WebM video format, some extensions with plugins and the ubiquitous access to stores to buy music online . It is important to highlight this context because Winamp 5.59 is essential to maximize Winamp for Android and functions of this we will detail below.

For this adaptation to mobile device, Winamp does not forget any of the features that have made ​​it big and massive. Among these are obviously the basic and universal multimedia player with unique and novel features such as synchronizing music libraries on your computer with which you have in your Winamp from your Android phone, via a USB cable or by WIFI. This mode is very practical to use when we want to renew your collection on your phone, because you can make changes to the computer, which is always fast and effective, and then synchronizing your mobile leave without looking at it out of service by connecting via USB to move files manually.

Winamp 5.59 also allows you to have on hand, never better, a complete soundtrack manager with smart playlists, a thousand ways to sort your songs and videos. You’ll also find some widgets for, among other things, create shortcuts to your playlists and display the information of the songs or videos contained in Idetag or updating by Winamp agent in communication with Pandora, Youtube and others. Finally you have the option to enable sending to your profile on Last.fm information of the songs that are playing on your Android.

Winamp Android lands in successfully demonstrating that it has a power of adaptation which is still loaded with lots of creativity and you can get juice to your benefits. Tell us what you think and what would you add to the next update.