A cell phone is one of the most sophisticated devices that humans have ever carried around in their pocket.

This course will discuss all aspects of the cell phone, including:

• A history of telephones leading to modular phones.
• How the cell network is designed.
• How does roaming work?
• What is your ESN, SID, MIN ? And why they are important.
• How does your phone receive and transmit radio waves?
• How long is your cell antenna?
• What is the distribution of cell towers in Bloomington?
• What is inside your cell phone?

Topics and components (and the physics behind the object) that will be studied include:

• Speakers
• Microphones
• Memory chips
• RF transmitters and receivers
• Display screens
• Cell phone cameras

• Cell phone ring tones
• Messaging techniques
• Digital sound
• Synthetic speech
• MP3
• Jpegs
• Mpegs