Editing Mobile device (section)

==History==
The history of the mobile device has been marked by increasing [[technological convergence]]. Early mobile devices—such as [[pocket calculator]]s, [[portable media player]]s, [[satellite navigation device]]s, and [[digital camera]]s—excelled at their intended use but were not multifaceted. [[Personal digital assistants]] (PDAs) proliferated in the 1990s as a way to quickly write down notes, schedule business appointments, and set personal reminders, as a handheld supplement to bulkier [[laptop]]s.

During the same period, the [[mobile phone]] evolved from supporting voice communication only to accommodating [[text messaging]], Internet connectivity, multimedia, and [[videotelephony]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Kjeldskov | first=Jesper | date=2022 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYlyEAAAQBAJ | title=Mobile Interactions in Context: A Designerly Way Toward Digital Ecology | publisher=Springer | pages=11–15 | isbn=9783031022043 | via=Google Books}}</ref> These [[feature phone]]s eventually gave way to the modern [[smartphone]], which combined all the aforementioned devices, and more, into one device. Since the late 2000s, smartphones have been the most common mobile device in the world, in terms of quantity sold, owing to their great convergence of technologies.<ref>{{cite book | last=Wang | first=Wen-Chia | author2=Mark S. Young | author3=Steve Love | chapter=Interaction Design for Mobile Phones | date=2011 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X_rLBQAAQBAJ | title=Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design: Uses and Applications | editor1=Marcelo M. Soares | editor2=Neville A. Stanton | editor3=Waldemar Karwowski | publisher=CRC Press | pages=285–300 | isbn=9781420046250 | via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Ng | first=Wan | author2=Howard Nicholas | editor=Wan Ng | editor2=Therese M. Cumming | date=2015 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQktCgAAQBAJ | chapter=Sustaining innovation in learning with mobile devices | title=Sustaining Mobile Learning: Theory, Research and Practice | publisher=Taylor & Francis | pages=1–2 | isbn=9781317660798 | via=}}</ref><ref name="convergence">{{cite book | editor=John Dent | editor2=Ronald M. Harden | last=Sandars | first=J.&nbsp;E. | author2=G.&nbsp;S. Frith | date=2013 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_GYkvH1r_gC | title=A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers | chapter=Mobile learning (m-learning) | publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences | pages=22–23 | isbn=9780702054679 | via=Google Books}}</ref>