Cellphone Tetrad

                                             

What does this technology do that is new?

This technology allows people to interact with each other in an interactive cloud environment.  People are able to text, email, surf the web, play games and search for address with their phones. People can also read books and record notes on their phones.  As a technologist it is exciting to see my pastor preach using his phone instead of a book to read his sermon notes and quote scripture to the congregation.  Imagine what tomorrow hold for the interactive cell phone.

What does this technology replaces?

Obsolete: This technology remove the need for beepers, pay phones and many hand held game devices.  When you watch a movie and see a person run up to a phone booth, you instantly know that the movie is made in the mid 90’s. Cell phone were once able to only make phone calls and reserved for the elite few, now even ten year old children have cell phones.

What does this technology bring to mind (or retrieve) form the past?

Retrieve: This innovation rekindle how we communicated in the past with telegraphs.  People use to have to wait to receive a message and now we are instantly connected through our phones.  It also retrieve the memory of beepers where people were instantly connected regardless of their location.

What might replace this technology in the future, or what might it cause to occur?

Reverses: The innovation that will most likely replace this technology is smaller phones that are the size of Bluetooth ear pieces.  As this technology develop more functions are added to the cell phone the size, portability and versatility of these devices will continue to develop.

Resources:
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-android-phones/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57319534-264/android-4.0-due-in-early-2012-for-7-htc-phones/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
http://cellphones.org/cell-phone-history.html