Monday, June 2, 2014

Why is a mobile phone called a cellphone?

CELL PHONES ----- The integral part of everybody's life today.

Today, nobody can find someone not owning a cellphone. Yeah. Wherever you go the network follows :) have you ever imagined why this pocket device has got this name? Why must it be named a cellphone rather than a pocket phone or anything else?

Here is the reason. This mobile phone divides the city or the area we live into a number of cells. A cell is a region where we get the network. In layman terms it's the range of the tower.. When the device moves, the signal strength of the current cell (tower) decreases and signal strength of the approaching cell increases whereby the device can switch itself from one cell to another. That's the reason why the display name of the cell changes as we move. Since, it's based on dividing the region into cells, it  is named as the cell phone...

Quite interesting to know,right?

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