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CELL PHONE AND TOUCHPAD VOCABULARY
Basic vocabulary on development and operation of cell phones and touchpads.
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| inventor of first phone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Year first phone invented | 1886 |
| cell | an area with a communications tower |
| full-duplex | send and receive at the same time |
| Inventor of cell phone | Martin Cooper |
| Year cell phone invented | 1973 |
| Cost of mobile phone in 1983 | $4,000 |
| Company that make first mobile phone | Motorola |
| resistive touchscreen | 2 layers, 1 with current |
| capacitive touchscreen | electric grid, responds to touch |
| Foxconn | Chinese maker of iPhones |
| time to make 1 iPad | 5 days |
| length of word day/shift | 12 hours |
| Wages per hour at Foxconn | $1.75 |
| Wages per hour in Maryland | $7.25 |
| Age of Foxconn workers | teens and twenties |
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