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Music has always been a way of expressing our day to say emotions to our loved ones. It is considered as an art which purifies human beings internally and makes him/her feel better and lively. In old times people used to listen to music with the help of tape recorders but they were not handy so after sometime a tape recorder was invented and then even carrying tape recorders became tough so people started using CD player but it also became very difficult to handle as large stack of tapes and CDs was very tough to handle.

But now gone are those days when listening to music was very tough and these days people have started using MP3 players. They are now considered as the must have item for the young generation these days and have set a revolution as how people listen to music.

The best part about these MP3 players is they are portable and handy.

They are very portable can be taken along to all places and you can enjoy music in the parks, shopping malls, streets, airports, etc. MP3 players are available in several sizes, brands and shapes.

They are available in different brands, but since they are handy and are portable all of them are small and lightweight and have amazing memory to carry and store a collection of music as per your taste. One can get personalized songs in MP3 players and music lists can also be made by downloading several songs from the internet. Particular songs can added or compressed so that they don’t occupy much memory space.

One can get a wide variety of MP3 players in the market such as Flash memory player, hard drive payer, Micro hard-drive based MP3 player and MP3 CD player. All such types of MP3 players are readily available in the market and can be brought at the best possible price available in the market.

The flash memory player is the lightest and smallest MP3 player available. It has less memory space and usually stores less number of songs. It is long-lasting and can tolerate general wear and tear well. However this MP3 player has a longer battery life which allows people to listen to music for longer duration of time and does not need charging the battery again and again.

One can easily download songs from internet in these MP3 players as and when required so that new songs added so as to listen to the best music available in the recent times and can even keep themselves up to date in terms of music.

MP3 players are very much in demand these days and are very popular among the younger generation and are very good if a person is a music lover.

The technology behind iPod downloads is interesting. If you are an iPod user, it is not new to you that you simply cannot download those stored song files in your iPod to your computer. In short, iTunes only allow a one-way transfer of files, from the computer via iTunes to your iPod device but not vice versa. People have questioned the rational behind this somewhat inconvenient shortfall in the design of these portable digital devices. We will find out in this article how we can work around this inconvenience and also explore other cost-effective ways to download tons of songs and music videos for pennies.

No, it is not because there is a design flaw but rather the design intention to ward off attempts of piracy, ie indiscriminate duplication of music files to be sold or shared. It may sound harsh to say that even sharing song files with friends could be illegal, but it is true that you may be in danger of infringing into copyright laws. The copyright laws are put in place to govern and protect the intellectual properties of their creators, the musicians, etc so that it remains profitable for them to run their music business. Without that, the music industry slowly wanes and dies a natural death. As a consumer, or music lover, you obviously won’t want that to happen right?

However, not being able to download iPod songs from iPod to computer meant that we cannot do a backup of our song collection. This can be a nasty experience if our computer crashes or when our iPods are faulty. There is a need for easy transfer of song files between the iPod device and any computer such that retrieval would not be so painful. The “piracy-proof” functionality of the iPod device to prevent transfers of songs to a computer ended up becoming a handicap for owners who genuinely just want to do proper backups.

Software developers saw this shortfall coming and have already designed some applications to work around this problem. iPod users can now conveniently carry out transfers from their iPods to their computers with ease, without fear of formatting problems. Here’s a list of iPod-compatible software applications supported by Mac/Windows Operating System that are available for downloading. Free trials are available for testing.

1. iPod Music Liberator

2. iPodRip

3. PodUtil

4. iPod Access

With the above software, you can rest at ease, knowing that your private iPod downloads of song and music collection is safe even when your iPod or computer is down. I am sure you have heard of horrific stories where folks who have painstakingly built up a huge iPod music collection only to see them wiped out with a technical glitch. It’s not a matter of effort only but the amount of money that has been invested into the iPod downloads.

Fortunately, there is now a better way to download iPod songs, music and music videos. In the past year, other than iTunes, many new players have entered into the market changing the business model of paid iPod downloads. Instead of charging per iPod download of song or music video, these membership sites are offering life-time membership for pennies. Considering the vast library of millions of iPod downloads they offer which range from the latest music to movies and TV shows, it is proving to be a more worthwhile investment for iPod users. Learn more about how you can access to unlimited iPod downloads of music and other media files at my iPod blog.

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Ever since the first generation of iPhones hit the market, many admirers around the world was in a frantic to obtain one. With its sleek design and great technology inside, perhaps you too would love to own one. The iPhone is one great device that combines a mobile phone, a multimedia player, and a web browser in one neat package. In fact, the iPhone can even do more than those things as it will be able to give you high quality entertainment that you never imagined possible in a mobile phone.Today, the iPhone 3G has been unveiled and is now very popular among its fans all over the world. It has its own distinctive look and design, and it also has a radiant touch screen interface that you would definitely want in your iPhone.The iPhone 3G is a buttonless phone that looks beautiful and desirable. However, one question remains, which is: does it really deliver what it promises?The answer to this is yes. The iPhone 3G will be able to provide you with all the things you need in a mobile phone. In fact, it can even offer you more than just a tool to communicate with family and friends.Basically, the iPhone 3G stands for 3rd generation. This particular iPhone version is able to offer a lot of flexibility to the user and will also allow you to be constantly online in order to exchange information with family and friends.iPhone 3G will even allow you to watch a movie and even let you play with online games.The multi touch screen of the iPhone 3G will allow you to control the display of the iPhone. For example, if you are viewing a photograph, you can zoom in and out by just moving your fingers inwards or outwardsThe iPhone 3G also offers a 2 megapixel camera. With this kind of camera, you will be able to take high quality photos of just about anything you want. And, because you can connect to the internet with this mobile phone, you will be able to instantly send the photos you take to anyone you want. With iPhone, you will be able to capture and eternalize good memories in style.Another cool thing about the iPhone 3G is that you can purchase and download iPhone applications from the App Stores online. Whatever applications you want to use, you will be able to access it, purchase it, and download it right on the spot.The iPhone 3G is also a multimedia player. Fill it with your favorite tunes and videos and you can be sure that you will be able to enjoy listening to your favorite music and watching your favorite videos while you are on the go. You will never get bored with iPhone. And, if you liked the music you heard on a radio, you can instantly search for it with your iPhone and purchase your own copy of the music right directly in your iPhone 3G.As you can see, there are so many things that you can do with the iPhone 3G. This is more than just a phone, but it is also an organizer, a gaming system, a multimedia player, and a personal computer all rolled into one.So, if you like to have an advanced device or gizmo that can provide you with hi-tech communications in style, getting an Apple iPhone 3G makes sense.For more information and articles on Apple iPhone, check out this great site iPhones Make Sense.

If you are looking for an iPod download game site listen up! There are several things that you need to know in order to make a right, and accurate decision on which site to download your iPod games from. With over hundreds of sites that offer iPod game downloads, not all might be compatible for your iPod.
When you are looking to find a site that you can use to download games to your iPod you need to use the following standards. It is very important, if not you may stand the chance of corrupting your iPod.
The area in which you need to pay attention to when looking for an iPod download game site is as follows:
· Is the iPod game software site compatible with your current iPod version?
· Will the software interrupt the normal usage of your iPod?
· The price for the iPod game site is it of value?
· What is the guarantee of the iPod game site product? (I.e. offer support, money back guarantee etc.)
Research has shown that 90% of iPod game download sites do not meet up to these standards. Some of the sites that do not pass are either outdated, or cost too much money to download the necessary software. Currently there are sites that cost hundreds of dollars to download unlimited games to your iPod. It is highly recommended that one stay away from such service.
However, there are good iPod download game sites available. Another factoring question that an iPod owner must ask is am I willing to pay per download? Or do I want to only pay a one time membership fee that will grant full access to download any amount of iPod games that I want?
To determine which option suites you best, that depends on how often you use, and download games to your iPod. The more aggressive iPod users find it best to pay a one time membership charge to download as many iPod games as needed.
Here are two site which I have reviewed for iPod game downloads.
IPod Download Pro – This site is recognized to be one of the most organized iPod download game site. Transferring downloaded games to you iPod is very simple. IPod Download Pro explains everything to you, and provides you will all the tools you need to get games on your iPod. The good thing with this site is that you do not have to buy any additional software such as an iPod converter. All their fees are upfront, no additional fees added. This is considered to be one of the best iPod download games sites available on the market right now.
My iPod Downloads- This site is more of a place to download movies, music, and even your favorite TV show episodes, even the olds ones from back in the days. Although they do offer Games to download this site mostly targets movies, and TV shows.
I hope that this little guide was helpful in providing information to help you make a conscious decision on how to chose an iPod download game site.

The 32GB iPod Touchwas released last September 2007, almost six years since the iPod was first launched in October 2001. It was considered as one of Apple’s masterpieces along with it’s other releases such as the different iPod models and most recently, the iPhone. Apple’s iPods revolutionized the way portable audio devices are designed and marketed.

When the iPod Touch was released, some consumers were reluctant to buy it, especially those who have already purchased an iPhone. Unlike the iPhone, the iPod Touch does not have certain features such as a camera, Bluetooth, and other features commonly found in phones. If like these people you are doubtful on why you should get an iPod Touch, then read on.

The iPod Touch boasts of the multi-touch user interface, one of the cutting-edge features that come with Apple releases. The iPod Touch has a wide 3.5 inch display and you can access everything that is in your 32GB iPod through that Home screen. The iPod Touch also has a power switch and a Home button to make navigation easier. With just a touch, you can go over all your music files, videos, and photos.

Another amazing feature of the iPod is the Mail function. You can set up your email account and contact your friends or your co-workers. It is that easy. You will also find the virtual keyboard an added advantage. Aside from the Mail function, you can also surf the internet using your iPod Touch. The iPod Touch uses the Safari web browser, which is considered as one of the best web browsers today, and you can use it to surf the internet via a WiFi connection.

But the iPod touch has more to offer. Unlike the iPhone, the iPod touch allows you to use the Calendar, Maps, Notes, and Weather features. You can watch TV shows and download music and videos from the iTunes Store. Also, the iPod Touch has a larger storage capacity of 32GB compared to the iPhone’s 16GB. Some merchants nowadays offer cheap iPods and you can be sure to get a better deal compared to buying an iPhone. As of this writing, Apple will be releasing new software and applications for iPod Touch owners. An iPod Touch with a storage capacity of 432GB is also expected to be released soon.

Aside from being packed with exciting features, the iPods and iPhones also have a trendy appearance. Because iPods and iPhones are slim, they do not take up much space. They can easily be placed inside one’s pocket or purse. The iPods also have rechargeable batteries, which can be recharged without taking up much time. If that’s not enough, you can also use iPods as a portable storage device.

Given all these features, it is not surprising that people consider buying iPods and iPhones a good investment. People from both developed and developing countries buy iPods and iPhones even if the prices are considerably higher compared to those of other players.

10 things to hate about the iPhone

I took delivery of my iPhone at the start of September, the start of a trying month personally that saw me out of the office for very long periods and only in touch with the world via my phone.  It was a baptism of fire for me and the device.

You will have seen the adverts, played with it in phone shops, looked over fellow commuters’ shoulders, borrowed your friend’s … great isn’t it?  Or is it?

In this article I touch on some of the things about the device that have really irked me.  Just a bit or quite a lot.  And to maintain the celestial karmic balance I have a companion article on some of the things about the iPhone that I absolutely love.  There’s enough material for both articles, I assure you!

So here we go, in reverse order, the 10 things that you should hate about the iPhone!

10. Grubby fingers and the onscreen keyboard

The iPhone’s onscreen keyboard is surprisingly effective and doesn’t take long to get used to. 

Just remember to wash your hands before you do so, however!  This isn’t just cosmetic: For some reason I manage to leave a sticky mark under my right thumb that attract dust, biscuit crumbs, or whatever, right over the erase key.  Usually the crumb lands there just as I finish the 2 page email and starts to rub out the whole message character by character! This is not an exaggeration!! It is, however, not a daily occurrence!!

9. External memory

I went the whole hog and took the 16GB iPhone immediately.  I don’t regret it!  I haven’t been selective with my music collection and have more or less all my ripped CDs stored on the iPhone.  That’s 14GB.  Which leaves precious little room for real data.

On other devices this is rarely a problem and non-volatile storage is usually flash memory of some description, the size of which obeys Moore’s law and doubles in size and speed every 9 months or so and halves in physical size every 2 years or so with a new “mini” or “micro” format.  I have yet to run out of space on a mobile phone or smartphone, even with an address book of over 500 names.

The problem on the iPhone is that there is no external memory slot and no way (short of wielding a soldering iron) of expanding the internal memory.  A shame. The iPod Touch has recently spawned a 32GB version and I imagine that the 32GB iPhone is on its way.  When that happens the legacy user base will be left wondering what to do next.

8. Battery and battery life

The iPhone is sleek – barely a centimetre thick and enticingly smooth with those rounded edges.  There are few buttons, no little doors to come open and break off in your pocket and no memory slots to fill up with fluff and dirt. 

One of the reasons for the smooth design is that the iPhone does not have a user removeable battery.  The battery can be changed by a service centre, and over the two years I will keep this device I expect to have to change the battery at least once, but I cannot do it myself.  Also the battery is surprisingly small – it has to be to fit into this neat little package.

The price you pay for this is battery life.  My device is now 6 weeks old and have been fully cycled about 5 times (I tend to keep the battery on charge but allow it to run flat at least once a week).  If I am not using the device constantly, just checking the device twice an hour and answering calls, using 3G and Push, I can rely on a full working day of 10 to 12 hours between charges.  If I turn on WiFi this drops to 6 or 7 hours.  If I use the GPS without WiFi, autonomy drops to 4 or 5 hours.  If I wanted to be really frugal and last a full 24 hours, I would need to turn off both Push email and 3G, and reduce screen brightness to a minimum.

For some people this is a major issue.  For me, since I usually either have a PC on and can trail a USB cable, or spend the day driving with the iPhone hooked up as an iPod and being charged by the car, it is less of a constraint.  But it remains an annoyance.  I haven’t yet seen an iPhone equivalent of the Dell Latitude “Slice” – a battery “back pack” for the iPhone that could more than double autonomy with minimal extra thickness, but I assume that someone, somewhere, is working on an aftermarket device.

7. Document management

There is no equivalent of the Windows Mobile File Manager or Mac Finder on the iPhone so there is no way of manipulating file objects on device. 

Admittedly the iPhone does a credible job of shielding you from the need to do any file level manipulation: For example the Camera has a photo album that is also accessible in other applications that need to access images (for example, the iBlogger application I use to write short articles on this site).  But there are still occasions when you need to manipulate individual file objects.

 One is during installation and set up when installing root certificates for SSL so that the device can talk to an Exchange server: Unless you use Apple’s enterprise deployment tool (which locks down the device and prevents further configuration changes, so not always desirable), the only ways to set up the device for Exchange are to set up a temporary IMAP account and download an attachment that you open, or to set up a website with the root certificate and define the appropriate MIME types on the web server (I could not get this to work, incidentally!).  How much easier it would be to download the certificate onto the device using Windows explorer (connecting to a PC via USB exposes the devices memory as an attached storage device) and to be able to open the certificate file from memory on the iPhone.

The other key need for this functionality is when manipulating attachments on email messages.  There is no way of saving attachments, or attaching documents selectively to a new or forwarded message.

6. Navigating through email folders

I tend to keep a lot of emails in my mailbox.  I archive once a year, and usually towards the end of the following year.  I’m also fairly busy and work on a dozen consulting and business development projects at a time.  That means two things: a lot of emails, and the need to organise those emails sensibly.

I organise my emails into trees – consulting projects in separate folders and these folders organised by client, all kept separate from companies I’m invested in and from my personal stuff.  Probably 40 or 50 folders.

On Windows Mobile devices I can organise this quite cleanly, with the ability to expand or collapse sections of the folder tree.  The iPhone recognises the tree, but gives me no means of collapsing the hierarchy.  The Inbox is always at the top: Junk email is always at the bottom.  Moving incorrectly junked emails means traversing the whole tree, which is a pain even using the classy flick scroll gesture.  It’s clumbsy and unnecessary.

5. Filtering offline email content

The other side of this complexity is managing how much of my “online archive” to take with me. 

There is no need (and no space) to take it all with me: I am quite used to placing sensible limits on the section of the mail folder to take with me.  Windows Mobile allows me to take 1, 2 or 3 months worth of email with me, to say whether I take attachments with me, all the email or just the headers.  I can even select which folders to take or leave behind.  And I don’t need to worry if I go away and find I am missing a crucial folder – I can change the parameters and the device will download what’s missing.

The iPhone is slightly less flexible. It won’t let me download attachments pre-emptively: It will only load the message header and leave the attachment behind unless and until I select the email manually.  I can define how many days of emails I download from 1 day to 1 month, but beyond that I cannot specify a limit.  I have a filter on the number of messages within a folder that I display from 25 to 200 messages but the interaction between this setting and the time limit is not entirely clear.  If you are a light user this is less of an issue: For a heavier email user with a complex folder hieracrchy you have less control and can run into memory management issues as a result. 

4. Message management and Exchange

The worst problem with message management on the iPhone is actually specific to Microsoft Exchange.

I am an expert user and really love Microsoft Exchange.  It isn’t just my mail server: It’s a full collaboration engine, with group and resource scheduling, rich address book, “to do” lists, journaling, contact histories etc.  I don’t use it for fax and voice mail yet, but that is just a question of not having made the time to buy the interface box to the PBX and turn that feature on.  So I am up there with the other 60% of enterprise mailbox users that are hooked on Exchange.

When the iPhone first appeared the Exchange interaction story was weak.  It could do IMAP, but that’s just a fraction of the story.  No problem, that wasn’t Apple’s intended primary audience either, but the enterprise users clearly wanted the iPhone, so Apple got to work.

To be fair to them, Apple have done a lot with iPhone 3G to improve the Exchange story. Most of the security protocols are there, including critical features like remote wipe and SSL, and it supports Push. Enterprise deployment is straightforward too with a dedicated enterprise setup tool that supports remote device configuration.  Unfortunately Apple seem to have stopped halfway through the API and a lot of Exchange functionality is overlooked.  Some of this, like losing some data richness within calendar and contact items, doesn’t affect all users equally.  Other elements are more critical, however.

The best way to describe this is how you forward email messages with attachments.  The Exchange API permits clients to forward the message without the message content being stored locally: You can forward the header and the server will attach the attachments and other rich content before forwarding.  The iPhone doesn’t understand this: First it has to download all of the message and attachments from the server to the iPhone, then it has to add the forwarding address and send the entire message back to the server.  Moving a message between folders is the same and involves the same telecommunications overhead.  A nuisance for me, but no more than that: If you aren’t on a data bundle and pay by the MB then you need to be wary of this.  

[Another side effect of this issue is that server-side disclaimers and signatures get placed at the end of the forwarded message, rather than under new message text.]

3. Reading HTML and rich text messages

I love HTML emails.  I know that is considered a cardinal sin in some quarters, but as someone once said, if email had been invented after http would email have been done any other way?  HTML is ubiquitous, it is clean and it works.

And of course being the best mobile web device on the market, the iPhone should be a fantastic HTML email reader, shouldn’t it? 

Well, it very nearly is.  It does some things really well.  It gets the layout, it renders inline graphics, it’ll even show some background.  But what if the text is really wide?  It’ll wrap won’t it?  No, it won’t.  It’ll shrink the text to fit.  It’ll make the text really, really small.  And you can’t cheat by rotating the device, making the screen “wider” and the font larger, because the mail client doesn’t support landscape presentation (why???).

Of course you can zoom in, because it’s HTML, but then you have to scan the whole line, whizzing across the page to the end of the line, then whizzing back again to get the start of the next line.  Oh dear!

2. Task switching

The iPhone is a lovely, clean design.  And part of the cool, clean look comes from the absence of nasty short cut action buttons. 

The iPhone has only three buttons on the edges of the device: the on/off button on the top, the volume up/down toggle on the side and the excellent single button mute button above the volume toggle.  That’s it.  The only other button on the device is the “home” button on the front, below the screen.

The home button stops whatever application you are engaged on and takes you to the home page of the device – the pretty page full of icons that start up each application on the device.  Good job it’s pretty, because you see an awful lot of it.

There is no way to jump straight to your calendar, or address book, or email. Apart from the one “double click” action (user configurable to either select phone favourites or iPod controls), the only way to start a task is to go back to the home page and up again into the application you want. Find an interesting URL in an email that you want to look at in Safari?  Memorise it well, or write it down, because unless the text has been created as a link you’ll have to go back to the home page, start Safari, type the URL, realise you’ve got it wrong, press the home button again, start email, open the email, find the URL … and start again. 

Or you could just select the URL and cut and paste it into the browser address bar … except …

1. How on earth do you cut and paste?

Once Xerox had invented the mouse, the GUI and WYSIWYG editing, it was up to Apple to take that technology and make it affordable with the Lisa and the Mac.  And Microsoft to make it ubiquitous, of course.

One of the joys of using the mouse, or any pointing device, is that it gives you a third dimension as you move around the page.  You aren’t constrained by the line or the word or the paragraph – you can jump straight to any part of the document.  And you can select parts of a document by dragging over a word, a line, a paragraph, and do something with it.  Like cutting it out.  Or copying it.  Or dragging it.  It’s normal.  That’s just what you do.  You don’t have 3 hour seminars and training courses on using a mouse (or a stylus) to point and select, click and drag.  You demonstrate it once, the student understands and does it. 

But the company that helped the mouse escape from the lab and get into the shops seems to have forgotten all about it.  Get out your iPhone.  Write a sentence.  Write another one.  Oops – that second sentence would make more sense BEFORE the first one.  I’ll just cut and paste the sentence. Oh no you won’t!! Because there is no cut and paste on the iPhone.  Hear that? No? Well, I’ll say it again! THERE IS NO CUT AND PASTE ON THE IPHONE.

Google around a bit and you’ll find dozens of articles on the subject.  You’ll find surprise, indignation, horror.  You’ll even find brave Apple gurus explaining sagely that you don’t need cut and paste because the iPhone gives you more direct ways of using information, like linking URLS, or detecting phone numbers, or, er, something.

The most likely explanation is that once Apple has decided to do away with the stylus, the only UI gesture was to use two fingers and drag that over the page to select some text.  But that gesture had already been taken with the excellent pinch zoom movement used on large documents and web pages.

There is a way out, however.  Some very credible proof of concept demonstrations have been put on the web showing how a sustained point and drag with single finger (like the stylus selection action in Windows Mobile) would be workable and not conflict with any other screen action on the iPhone. 

Let’s hope that the concept demos work and we see cut and paste implemented in an upcoming firmware release. In the meantime, at least twice every day I bet every iPhone user will silently curse, shrug and give up writing that urgent memo because they just can’t be bothered to type it all again.

 

So that’s it.  Please don’t get me wrong, I think the iPhone is a wonderful, iconic and transformational device.  As with the Mac, it has changed our perception of what a mobile device should be.  Mobile phones and smartphones will never be the same again. 

It’s just that for all it’s brilliance, it remains flawed.  The iPhone is the product of a prolific and brilliant yet highly introspective group of engineers.  Left free to innovate, unrestrained by any notion of reality or practicality or what the user currently thinks he or she wants, Apple have created a concept device. I’m grateful they have, but I fear that it will be up to other companies, with a clearer grasp of what the user can use, in particular what ELSE the user is doing, to take the iPhone to the next step.

Generally, when it comes to choose new cell phones and wholesale cell phones,people can make absolutely different tendencies. Many consumers put the brands of cell phones as the utmost concern, while some others pay more attention to how many functions the cell phone has.

Before cell phone buying, buyers should learn about some knowledges of a kind of cell phones they have in mind. But it is quite likely that many people purchased cell phones that might not be suitable for them by just following what others did.

Today, an increasing number of new functions are added into cell phones. They are usually made as the leading promotional points by the cell phone companies. Yet, it is important to ask ask a question: are all those functions useful to you?

You would think that a camera can bring more fun to your using experience. But when you look to the cases of some feature-rich cell phone owners, not a few of them grow tired of the feature after a transitory period of freshness feeling. And since camera is not the most important function of the cell phone, it lag  far behind the professional cameras. It’s obviously a better choice for those who take great interest in photographing to add the money saved from cell phone to a professional camera.

The same logic is adequate for MP3, Bluetooth functions as well.

For some people who just want to use the cell phone for telephoning, it is better to consider carefully before purchasing, because the more functions the phone has, the higher price it has. Don’t be fooled by the cell phones which have all features that cell phones can have, and are charged at inconceivably low prices. This might mean that the quality of the cell phone might be unreliable.

If you just want to use the calling function with cell phone, you should investigate the battery life and the warranty. It is really troublesome to charge the cell phone almost everyday. Buy cell phones that have good performance of battery. Usually, batteries are also the bottleneck in the enhancement of cell phones. Cell phones with many functions consume electricity much faster than those with fewer features.

Another factor to consider about when buying a cell phone is the brand. Big brands usually tend to have better quality and durability, but with higher prices. If your budget is limited, it’s helpful to make clear which functions can be frequently used.  Some less famous brands are usually more affordable. With less money, you can buy a rich-feature cell phone. But if you just want to buy the cell phone for making calls for as long as much possible a span, then big brands are more ideal.

Cell phone is a wireless, portable, long-range, electronic telephone, which during travel can seamlessly change antenna connections, from one radio reception cell to another radio reception cell, without dropping or losing the ongoing call.
Besides the standard voice function of a telephone, latest cell phones have features such as SMS for text messages, MMS for multimedia messages, radio, games, internet connectivity for email, browsing, blogging, music (MP3) playback, memo recording, built-in cameras and camcorders, ringtones, personal organizers, Push-to-Talk (PTT), Bluetooth and infrared connectivity, call registers, streaming video, downloading video, video call, and also serve as wireless modems for PCs that can be connected to the Internet.
The power in a cell phone is obtained from rechargeable batteries, which can be recharged from the mains, a USB port or a cigarette lighter port in an automobile. Nickel Metal Hydride were the most common types of batteries, which due to the “memory effect” (the user can recharge only when the entire battery is drained off) were replaced by Lithium-Ion batteries, which did not suffer from any memory effect.
Cell phones came into existence because of the invention of hexagonal cells in 1947, for the base stations by Bell Labs engineers at AT&T. This was further developed during the 1960s by Bell Labs. During a call, the channel frequency could not be changed automatically from one cell (base station coverage area) to another cell (base station coverage area) as the person traveled from the area of one cell to the area of another cell. Amos Joel of Bell Labs invented a breakthrough invention and called it as the `call handoff` by which the channel frequency could be changed automatically from one cell to another cell, during the same call, as the mobile user traveled from one cell to another cell. Due to their heavy construction, these phones were used mainly in automobiles.
The first practical cell phone in a non-vehicle setting, and which could be handheld, was invented by Martin Cooper, the General Manager (Communications Division) of Motorola, who made the world`s first handheld cell phone call on April 3, 1973.
The technology by which the cell phone works depends on the mobile phone operator; however, all of them use electromagnetic radio waves, which are in touch with a cell site (base station). The base station is composed of several antennas which are mounted on a pole, tower, or building. Cell sites are spread at a distance of 5 to 8 miles (approx. 8 to 13 km) from each other. The low power transceiver from the cell phone transmits the voice and data to the nearest cell site. During movement, the cell phone will “handoff” the information to other cell site. Mobile phone operators use many technologies to maintain the smooth stream of digitized data from the cell phone to the cell site and vice versa.
The wireless telephone technologies are grouped under heads known as generations, starting from zero generation or 0G. The current generation going on is 4G; however, there are old cell phones that still operate on 1G, 2G, and 3G technologies. The wireless telephone technologies used in each generation are as given below:
0G: PTT, MTS, IMTS, AMTS, OLT, MTD, Autotel/PALM, ARP
1G: NMT, AMPS/TACS/ETACS, Hicap, CDPD, Mobitex, DataTac
2G: GSM, iDEN, D-AMPS, IS-95/cdmaOne, PDC, CSD, PHS, GPRS, HSCSD, WiDEN, CDMA2000 1xRTT/IS-2000, EDGE (EGPRS)
3G: W-CDMA, UMTS (3GSM), FOMA, TD-CDMA/UMTS-TDD, 1xEV-DO/IS-856, TD-SCDMA, GAN (UMA), HSPA, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+, HSOPA
4G : UMB, UMTS Revision 8 (LTE), WiMAX
Frequency bands: SMR, Cellular, PCS
The impact of cell phone usage on human health has been of considerable worldwide concern. Research studies in Copenhagen, from the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, the National Cancer Institute, and the Institute of Cancer Research, do not establish any link between cancer and cell phone usage. However, an intergovernmental agency IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) forming part of the World Health Organization of the United Nations, undertook a study of 4,500 users and found a statistically significant link between cell phone usage and tumor frequency. Further research is going on.
Cell phone usage and driving is a common worldwide phenomenon. Some jurisdictions have banned usage of hand-held phones during driving, but allowed the hands-free fashion of cell phone usage while driving. However, studies have found out that the distraction is caused by the conversation itself; hence, both hand-held and hands-free cell phones contribute towards road traffic accidents. Further studies on cell phone usage and driving are going on.
Nokia Corporation is currently the world`s largest manufacturer of cell phones. Other notable cell phone manufacturers, in alphabetical order, are 3G, Audiovox (now UT Starcom), Benefon, BenQ-Siemens, Fujitsu, High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC), Kyocera, LG Mobile, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Pantech Curitel, Philips, Research In Motion, Sagem, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Siemens, Sierra Wireless, SK Teletech, Sony Ericsson, T&A Alcatel, Toshiba, and Verizon.