Touch Window.

The evolution of hand-held phone. Or mobile phone we know today.

I first bought my hand phone in 1996. It was an NEC Primero Basic. It cost me RM1250.00 inclusive of the registration with Celcom with the old 010 prefix. It was like a weird moment when the phone rang when I was in the Mini Bus. Everybody was searching for the culprit. Hehehe. The ringing tone was not like we have right now. It was the standard ringing sound at your house and you can't control the volume or turn it into silent mode. The only accessory available was the antenna. You can replace it with the gold coloured dome. Unscrew the original antennae and replaced it with the gold coloured one. It was something to be proud of at that moment.

The most recognisable one of course the ATUR phone. It was bulky, just like the size of a car battery. But, you bring it to the jungle and you are connected to the outside world.

Then arrived a newer version of phone that came with text messaging system. I remember maxis came out with what is known as the sms language, with all the short form. Everyone went crazy. At one point of time, there was even an sms contest to determine who was the fastest to send text messages. And I found that my phone had become obsolete. So I bought a new phone to keep pace with the trend. Soon, the market was flooded with varieties of hand phones to choose from.

At present, touch screen is the trend. Sliding the screen will take you to a new page. Nowadays, hand phones not only to make/receive calls and smses, there are a lot more applications that we can use. Video conferencing, 3G, GPS, Google Maps, cameras. What else? So many applications to choose from. The size of the phone varied dramatically. When it was first introduced, the normal size was just like the size of your palm. Then the size was reduced until you can hide it behind your palm. Remember the advertisement when a man thought that the girl across the table was flirting with him? Remember that? Actually the girl was using the smallest hand phone and was talking to someone. Now look at the Tablet or IPad. It was like talking to a table mirror if you don't bring your bluetooth.

Touch Window came much earlier than touch screen.

I do it every time I wind up my car window so that the window slides perfectly into the panel.