Popular and Common types of devices: Mobile Phones: Use for communication
and different purposes.
● Television sets - More than half of Filipinos own at
● Mobile phones least one mobile phones
● Computers regardless of type
- 2010, Synovate (global research
Kantar media - one of the most trusted agency), 67% product ownership
television audience measurement providers in the country
in the Philippines. - Considered a must-have among
young Filipinos (2010)
Have at least one television set: - Atlas Philippine Nationwide Urban
92% - urban Homes 2011-12, 1 in every 3 Filipinos
70% - rural home cannot live without a mobile
phone
15.135 Million households have television - 30% of Philippine urban population
sets (Noda, 2012) nationwide said that phones are
necessities in life
Television - ultimate medium for
advertisement placements (2014). Inventors of Mobile Phones:
- Almost all filipinos use this type of - April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a
device senior engineer at Motorola made
- Used during free time or any time of the first mobile phone call to their
the day when they have nothing to rival telecommunications company
do and properly informed them that he
was making a call from a mobile
Inventors of Television: (2 types of phone
television system: Mechanical and - The mobile phone weighed 1.1
electrical television) kilograms and measured
228.6x127x44.4 mm. Capable of
1. Gottlieb Nipknow (german student, 30-minute talk time but will took 10
late 1800’s) hours to charge
- Electric telescope that had - 1983, motorola made their first
18 lines of resolution commercial mobile phone available
- Send images through wires to the public (Motorola DynaTac
with the aid of a rotating 8000X)
metal disk.
2. Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton & Computers and Laptops:
Boris Rosing (English, Russian - Some owns more than one and
scientists, 1907) some own at least one computer of
- Use a cathode ray tube in laptop
addition to the mechanical - Sold per year where not high as the
scanner system number of phone and TV’s because
of higher cost
- Most of the profits gained by - All-in-one device
computer and laptop manufacturers - Portable and convenient
come from offices, businesses, or
school where such devices have
become part of their necessities
Inventors of Computer:
1. Charles Babbage (19th Century
English Mathematician professor)
- Designed the analytical
engine which was used as
the basic framework of the
computers
Three generations of Computers:
I. Computer was so big that could
occupy whole floors of buildings
- First true portable was released in
April 1981 (called Osborne 1)
A Typical household own at least 4 of the
devices:
- 89% mobile phones
- 53% smartphone
- 14% tablet
- 39% desktop
- 37% laptop or netbooks
- 4% smart TV
Roles played by these devices:
1. Television - platform for
advertisements and information
dissemination
- Used for recreational activity
and good stress reliever to
most families (spec.
Filipinos)
- Good platform for different
propagandas and advocacies
- Good way to bond with family
members
2. Mobile phones - primarily used for
communication (texting and calling)
- Surf the internet, take
pictures, and other apps