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mobile phone
A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency carrier while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator, which provides access to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Most modern mobile telephone services use a cellular network architecture, and therefore mobile telephones are often also called cellular telephones or cell phones. In addition to telephony, 2000s-era mobile phones support a variety of other services, such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming, and digital photography. Mobile phones which offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones.
The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing c. 4.4 lbs (2 kg). In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available handheld mobile phone. From 1983 to 2014, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew to over seven billion, penetrating 100% of the global population and reaching even the bottom of the economic pyramid. In first quarter of 2016, the top smartphone manufacturers were Samsung, Apple and Huawei (and "martphone sales represented 78 percent of total mobile phone sales").
This is independent of parties.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-campaigns-track-cellphones-to-identify-and-target-individual-voters-11570718889?mod=djemalertNEWS
What Does It Really Take To Track A Million Cell Phones?
"What’s the difference between a Nokia 3310 and an iPhone 7? There isn’t any! As long as they are turned on, they can both locate you in real-time, 24/7, with a precision better than 1 square kilometer"
Battery Free Phone
It's a long ways from being commercialized and they probably cannot solve for the energy requirements of a high-resolution color screen, but it's still interesting!
It reminds me of being a kid. I had one of those Radio Shack electronic-experiment kits. One of the...
** As of Feb 27, 2017 I'll be working on the user interface & experience design for the app. If you are interested in following the app design, all live updates will be pushed to RangeBuddy.
** As of March 4, 2017 I'll be starting to code a live prototype of the designs I have made. I'll likely...