Face-To-Face Phones
The iPhone 4 is only the latest entry into videophone market. It was introduced June 24th, 2010 and is expected to have wide growth selling over 1 million the first day. However, Apple is not the inventor nor one of the first companies to have videophone technology operational.
In April 1891, Alexander Graham Bell recorded conceptual notes of an electrical radiophone that discussed “….the possibility of seeing by electricity” using devices that employed tellurium or selenium imaging components. Bell went on to later predict that: “…the day would come when [we will] be able to see the distant person to whom [we're] speaking.” The compound name ‘videophone’ slowly entered into general use after 1950, although ‘video telephone’ likely entered the lexicon earlier after ‘video’ was coined in 1935.
Ironically, Bell Labs conducted extensive research and development of videophones, leading to public demonstrations of its trademarked Picturephone product and service in the 1960s, including displays at the 1964 World’s Fair in flushing Meadows, New York.
The first public video telephone service was developed by Dr. Georg Schubert and opened by the German Reichspost in 1938, but which quickly closed in 1940 due to the WWII. In that service trial, video telephone lines linked Berlin to Nuremberg, Munich, and Hamburg, with terminals integrated within public telephone booths and transmitting at the same resolution as the first German TV sets, at 440 lines. The British General Post Office also operated another public video telephone service prior to World War II.
Although Go Mini’s is not the inventor of the portable storage industry it is the leader in the field. For more information go to www.gominis.com and visit our “Become a Dealer” section to file an application or call 1-866-GOMINIS.
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