Ipad

I am looking at things from the prospective of a sales person, who witnessed deregulation of long distance phone service in 1984. The local phone service market was deregulated in 2003.
I remember the capability of the long distance carrier L.C.I International which was formed in 1983. L.C.I introduced 6 second billing in 1993 to the residential land line customer.
Prior to L.C.I the billing norm for phone carriers was to round the long distance charge to residential customers to the minute. I sold long distance for L.C.I through a newly formed network marketing company called A.C.N.
Today in 2010, American Communications Network or ACN Telecommunications is a direct marketing organization that offers products like local calling service, long-distance calling, VoIP, Internet access, wireless services, electrical power, and natural gas. It is a large organization that records about half million dollars in sales every year. To put it in exact figures, ACN sells about $700 million worth of products and services every year since it was founded. To the business minded person deregulation of long distance phone service was like the gold rush of the 1800’s. Deregulation allowed millionaires to be made over night in the telecommunications industry.
I climbed on board and took a slice of the pie. I went on to sell AT&T long distance business to business in the late 1990’s. I continued to ride the telecommunications wave until 1999 when I left the telecom sales arena. During the 1990’s I was in a position to help market one of the first cell phones.
Sales of the cell phone were not made often for me, within the general public. The majority of sales that I made of cell phones were to the sales and marketing world and owners of small and medium size business owners and C.E.O’s of companies. The white collar world was also a great market for the invention called a beeper.
The beeper was able to be kept in a shirt pocket and notifications were able to be sent wirelessly. The beeper showed the phone number of the person trying to reach you and you were expected to call them back. The beeper helped to increase the sale of cell phones. The reason for the increase in cell phone sales was because if you received a beep people needed to have some way to call the person back. If people were in the car or in a public place they needed access to a phone to call the person that wanted to reach them by beeping them.
Pay phones were pretty accessible in the 1990’s. The problem with pay phones were the simple fact the you need to carry change to be able to make a call, people also had to leave their car or search for a pay phone to call the person beeping them. There were often long lines at pay phones when you were able to find them.
The prepaid phone card became popular. The prepaid phone card is a card that you can load calling minutes on and eliminate having to carry change when making a phone call from a pay phone or land line. The logical thing became to buy a cell phone to communicate. Communication Tower’s were erected to send signals to and from cell phones The beeper began to go by the wayside and cell phones came into the mainstream as a form of normal communication.
Technology has advanced in the communication world since the time cell phones became main stream. Now, there is wireless texting, unlimited range of cell phone use in most states within the United States. Technology has made our forms of communication change. Images can be sent wireless to cell phones.
The cell phone has evolved to have internet capabilities and can hold a lot of information much like a computer. The information can be shared all over the world. Last month January 2010, Apple Inc. has brought out a product that is a mobile device called the Ipad. The Ipad is meant to change the way we communicate and handle the way we get things done that need to be done for our daily life. This is all compact into a hand held device. The costs of the two versions and the capabilities of the Ipad are listed in the chart below.
IPad Wi-Fi
IPad Wi-Fi + 3G $499
$629 $599
$729 $699
$829
Color display 4:3 aspect ratio, 9.7 inch (20 cm × 15 cm) IPS LCD with LED backlight

Graphics 1024 × 768 px, 132 ppi

Processor 1 GHz Apple A4 SoC
Flash memory 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB
Wireless Integrated 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Cellular
GPS
Sensors Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor, Digital compass
Operating system I Phone OS 3.2

Battery Built-in lithium-polymer; 25 W•h
(10 h usage, 140 h music playback,[18] one-month standby)[19]

Weight 1.5 lb (680 g) 1.6 lb (730 g)
Dimensions 9.56 in (24.3 cm) x 7.47 in (19.0 cm) x 0.5 in (1.3 cm)
Input and output
• Dock connector
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
• Built-in speaker
• Microphone

Time will tell how the Ipad will change our communication on a daily basis .