Can You Live Without Mobile Phone?

Mobile phones have become a crucial part in our daily life nowadays. In the modern era now, everyone owns a mobile phone. With mobile phone, it is easy to communicate with other people and portable.However the mobile phones we see today did not look like this in the earlier days, instead they were something totally different, something you would not even think having it around or using it.

Improved technology has made a great change in the history of mobile phones, transforming the huge brick-like mobile phones of 1995 to sleek and stylish smartphones we carry with us now. Let’s take a ride back to the past and look at how cellphones has developed from the bulky walkies-talkie size to today’s swipe-savvy descendants.

Nokia 9000 which was one of the most popular phones in 1996. Mobile phones became a little more defined and better looking than how they were before. Antennas were shortened and the designs modified; the features were also upgraded.

Nokia Lumia 800, runs on the Windows 7 Mobile Edition OS introduced in 2012. No one could have imagined that in a mere 17 years, mobile phones could have made the leap from just being the alternative to landlines to become a computer, GPS, radio and our lifeline to the Internet, and still be able to fit in your pocket.

The evolution of mobile phones has bring us much fun. Other than making phone calls, the mobile phone now act like a small computer by granting world-wide-web gain access. The entire basic mobile phone itself have the calendar, reminder and the alarm options where we can schedule our works. It will help you to stay connected with the people far away and owning the diverse multi-function functionality, it replaced a number of other devices effortlessly. This includes granted method to service providers to supply numerous world-wide-web expert services. Mobile or portable banking and sharing tweets are going towards common extramarital relationship with the phone person. Mobile phone devices are however a new type of affirmation to a lot; this depends upon the phone people order.

In the same time, people tend to change their phones either due to it is not working anymore or keep themselves up-to-date. Question is, where did the old phones went to? Most of the people do not acknowledge that their old or spoiled mobiles can actually be recycled instead of keeping it at home or throwing them into the dustbin. Estimation there's only 10% of unwanted cell phones are recycled each year. 

Look at the video below: Over 260 million cell phone users (85% of the population) in U.S. alone with nearly 1 Billion currently in retirement. 

Give your old mobile a new life. Due to their small size and rapid replacement cycle, cell phones are more likely to end up in the waste stream and contribute a growing portion of the toxic materials that end up in our landfills. 

Interested to know more about the history of phones and how mobile phone can be recycled? You definitely will not want to miss the “Connect To Conserve” campaign,  who presents you the “Nokia Factory” exhibition booth by showing you the process of phone recycling.  Have no platform to recycle your old mobiles? Start collecting the unwanted mobiles from your friends and families, regardless of any brand and any phone models, bring them over to “Connect to Conserve” Campaign, your old phone donation for recycling purposes might probably stand you a chance to win away a new Nokia mobile and many more prizes. 

Date: 10th - 12th July 2013

Time: 10am - 5pm

Venue: TAR University College, College Hall.

Stay tuned or log on to Connect To Conserve FB Page to know more about our campaign. Be sure to be there at our event (details are as above) and do not forget to bring along your old mobile phones! :)




Best regards,
Cath Lee YeeKuan
Assistant Finance Manager
Connect to Conserve
Advanced Diploma in Mass Communication (Public Relations) Year 1
School of Social Science & Humanities
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College