Mobile phones started off as two way radios. They were installed in taxi-cabs for communication. The first cellphones were called rigs and were first installed in M. Ericsson's car. When they were first installed, you couldn't dial numbers you had to stop at a place where telephone lines were accessiable.
M Ericsson’s phone was first released in Sweden in 1956 and the first person in the UK to have a phone installed in their car was Prince Phillip in his Aston Martin in 1957.
Nearly everybody owns a cellphone now days because they are portable, small and you can get service nearly everywhere at any time. On most cellphones there are games, pictures, videos, voice - recording, texts, calling and playing songs. Mobile phones also come in all shapes, sizes and colours. Now days they are very popular and most people own one.
By Kim
Room 28
