Sagem is a global mobile phone manufacturer with a strong presence in world markets – Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America – thanks to continuous technological innovations, including built-in cameras, colour screens, multimedia messaging, WAP, GPRS, modules and modems, etc. Sagem is also a real player in the accessory market, with a strong will to offer a large and innovative range of accessories.

Sagem are currently ranked number 5 within the UK mobile phone market and are adamant in superseding their rival’s success and share of the market.



History
 

1994	SMS text messaging launched
1991	European Community unifies digital networks with GSM
1985	Phones with 20kg batteries introduced
1983	UK gets analogue TACS system
1979	First cellular phone system deployed in Japan
1956	First car phone released in Stockholm. The size of a suitcase and weighing 40kg, it ran off a car battery.
1947	Bell Labs developed cellular technology basis for modern mobile phone networks
1946	Radiotelephones introduced in USA
1925	Wireless telegraphy used on ships, aircraft and in police cars
1921	First car-mobile radio used by Detroit police department
1912	First commercial telephone calls made in UK
1906	Guglielmo Marconi makes first voice transmission using radio waves
1876	Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call

Interesting Facts

• In Santiago City, Philippines, mobiles are banned in public to "forestall the occurrence of accident and disturbance". The average British mobile bill is £20 a month.

• Over 47m British adults have a mobile phone, about 70% of the population. In America, only 40% have one.

• 16-year-old Lindsay Fletcher from Wigan is the UK's fastest texter: she did a 233-character message in 100 seconds.

• Drivers' reactions are a third slower when talking on a handheld mobile than when under the influence of alcohol.

• Julia Roberts does not own a TV or a landline. She does have a mobile, but she insists that it is rarely switched on.

• 20bn texts were sent worldwide in 2001 - 1bn in the UK.

• 33% of owners say their phones are for emergencies only.

• There are 30,000 mobile-phone base stations in the UK.

• Biotechnologists are working on the possibility of keeping your sim card safe, by inserting it into your forearm.

• Mobile users are 2.5 times more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain adjacent to their phone ear, but researchers are unable to prove whether it has anything to do with the phone.

• Scientists say that handsets halve in size every 18 months. By 2017 designs will reach the physical limits of technology.

• 16% of British kids have been bullied by text message.

• 58% of Norwegian executives believe it is rude to take a mobile phone call in a supermarket.

• 2% of mobile owners had their phones stolen last year - a theft every three minutes. The Metropolitan Police claim that mobile thefts account for 1/3 of all street robberies in London.

• It is now possible to locate a person using a mobile phone down to a range of a few metres, anywhere on the globe.