How did Big Brother come about?

Mobile was first invented by the American corporate giant Motorola. On April 3, 1973, the world's first mobile phone was born at the Motorola laboratory in Manhattan, New York. The leader of the research team was Martin Cooper. The birth of this mobile phone means the beginning of a new era.

For people to move from being closed to being open, passion and ideas alone are definitely not enough, and tools are also needed. When Mobile entered China in 1987, it undoubtedly became an important tool for accelerating people's information communication and social interaction. When mobile phones first entered the mainland, they had a strange name called "Big Brother".

This is actually a homonym for the name gang leader in Hong Kong and Guangdong. In gangs, the younger leader is usually called Big Brother, while the leader is naturally called "Big Brother". It is said that the mobile phone got this name because the movie star Sammo Hung was the first person in Hong Kong to own a mobile phone. When he was a director on the set, he never left his mobile phone and often used it to give orders.

Extended information:

The so-called second-generation mobile phone (2G) is currently the most widely used in the world, mainly GSM and CDMA. They are all digital. In addition to voice communication, they can also send and receive text messages (short messages, SMS), MMS (multimedia messages, multimedia messages), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), etc.

GSM is the most popular in mainland China and Taiwan, and CDMA and PHS mobile phones are also very popular. The entire industry is in the process of migrating to the third generation of mobile phones (3G).

The appearance of a mobile phone should generally include at least one LCD screen and a set of buttons (some mobile phones with touch screens have fewer buttons). In addition to the typical phone functions, some mobile phones with phone keyboards also include more functions such as PDA, game console, MP3, camera, photography, recording, GPS, etc. There is a trend of developing towards PDA with mobile phone functions.

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