Documentary Script

40 years ago Motorola announced the DynaTac 8000, the first portable telephone. It was the size of your forearm, weighed 1 and a half kilograms and had a battery that lasted 20 minutes.

 Surprisingly, this was seen as the definition of success, only the rich could afford one, if you saw someone walking down the street with such a device; he was a somebody.

This $4000 device initiated the portable telephone trend; deemed the cell phone.

Motorola had sold 1200 of those early 80s contraptions,

Now 40 years on from the inception of that gadget, and we have seen cell phones develop in unimaginable ways.

They have now become lighter, more powerful, able to do more than call, and above all; cheaper. This has made the cell phone more accessible to everyone.

The constant improvements meant that now we have gone from this   to this , no not that, This 

The development has now taken smartphones into the hands of the general public, where now it seems that everybody owns one. It’s the social norm, Almost 1 billion smartphones were shipped in 2013 alone, and if that didn’t shock you Apple sold 10 million iPhones in the first weekend of release.

Today we’re going to visit Solihull Sixth Form to ask students and teachers on why smartphones are so relevant now, why they’re necessary and why people use them.