What is a cellphone?

› A cellphone is a type of wireless communication device that uses small cells with a base station and a cellphone tower at the center of each cell.

› They are also defined as small sophisticated radios.

Our presentation will consist of 2 parts

› Part one will be a quick

history of cellphones

and how they work

› Part two will be us

discussing our design

project.

The original concept of cellphones began in 1947.

Bell laboratories introduced the idea though police

car technology – CB Radios.

Motorola was the first company to use the tech in

portable devices that were design outside the use

of an automobile.

http://www.privateline.com/PCS/histor

y10.htm

Dr. Martin Cooper is considered the

inventor of the first modern portable

handset.

› He made the first call on a

cellphone in 1973

› The system is divided

into an area of service into a set of cells on

what might look like a

hexagonal grid.

› A phone tower (base

station) in the center

of the cell covers an

area of 2 or 3 square miles around.

› Our phones transmit to

towers, which connect us and route the call

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NWACC

› Students

› Faculty

Businesses

Medical

Microsoft › Power point

› Word

› Paint

Adobe › Illustrator

› Photoshop

Sketch Up 8

Cell Phone

Internet

SEARCH ON THE

INTERNET

BRAINSTORMING

BOOKS

SURVEY QUESTIONS

Our project involved the design of a new phone based on a consumer survey we gave to the MCTM class and some of our family members.

The design focused on efficiency and cost modifications suggested by the survey respondents.

Our survey was limited to 10 basic questions.

USERS

AT&T

T-MOBILE

CRICKET

VERIZON

SPRINT

STRIGHT TALK

40%

25%

10%

10%

10%

5%

Results

Windows

Android

IOS

15%

45%

40%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

Popular Applications Used on Phones

A LOT

SOME

NONE

Games

Mp3 player

Good camera and video

Android operating system

Social network friendly

Based on our research we have concluded, what type of phone that our survey group would like.

We hope to share our design with the public.

By focusing on certain features that our survey group wants we think that we have a well balanced and affordable phone design.

Communicate with peers – team members and EMPACTS staff

How to use technology to publish our project results

To be more open to other ideas.

How to create surveys and evaluate data collected from the surveys

How to format graphs and charts for publishing

Catherine Carey, Instructor

Henry King, EMPACTS Tech Corp

Lee Stidham, EMPACTS 3D Design and

Printing Specialist

C. Dianne Phillips, EMPACTS Program

Facilitator