Handsets
Handsets
Phones 4u is the UK's fastest growing independent mobile phone retailer in the UK. Providing our customers with the latest range of mobile phone handsets from FREE. As an independent retailer, we are able to provide mobile phone handsets from the leading manufacturers (Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, NEC etc) at extremely competitive prices on both contract (post pay) and PAYG (pre-pay) across the UK's leading network providers (O2, 3, T Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile and BT Mobile).
Mobile phones have become and increasingly important element of our everyday lives and as the mobile phone features continue to develop such as megapixel cameras, Bluetooth™ technology, WAP, Java, MP3 etc we become more dependant on our mobile phones and owning the latest mobile phone ensures that you keep up to date with technological advances.
Whatever your needs, at Phones 4u we'll find the right deal 4u!
Mobile Phones: A Brief History
- Bell Labs developed cellular technology basis for modern mobile phone networks in 1947.
- First car phone released in Stockholm. The size of a suitcase and weighing 40kg, it ran off a car battery in 1956.
- Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first modern portable mobile phone handset. Cooper made the first call on a portable mobile phone in April 1973.
- By 1977, AT&T and Bell Labs had constructed a prototype cellular system. A year later, public trials of the new system were started in Chicago with over 2000 trial customers with mobile phones.
- In 1979, in a separate venture, the first commercial mobile phone system was deployed in Japan.
- In 1981, Motorola and American Radio telephone started a second U.S. mobile radio-telephone system test in the Washington/Baltimore area.
- By 1982, the slow-moving FCC finally authorized commercial cellular service for the USA. A year later, the first American commercial analog cellular service or AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) was made available in Chicago by Ameritech.
- European Community unifies digital networks with GSM in 1991.
- SMS text messaging launched from mobile phones in 1991.
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