12 Fact about mobile phone . Probably you don't know
1. The first call from a mobile phone was made on April 3, 1973
It was made by Martin Cooper, engineer of Motorola, from a mobile phone on the streets of New York. Interestingly enough, he called on of his biggest rivals in the sector; engineer Joel Engel, from AT&T, just before giving a press conference to announce that he had just made the first call from a mobile phone. When he was on the phone, he said something like: “Do you know where I am calling you from?”
2.The first “smartphone” dates from 1997. This is one of the best mobile phone facts
It was made by Martin Cooper, engineer of Motorola, from a mobile phone on the streets of New York. Interestingly enough, he called on of his biggest rivals in the sector; engineer Joel Engel, from AT&T, just before giving a press conference to announce that he had just made the first call from a mobile phone. When he was on the phone, he said something like: “Do you know where I am calling you from?”
3. The first “smartphone” dates from 1997. This is one of the best mobile phone facts
We are talking about the Ericsson GS88 “Penelope” model which is the first mobile phone that was called “smartphone”, a term that ended up being, as you know, tremendously popular.
4. The best-selling mobile phone is the Nokia 1100
To date, there are 250 million units sold, and it is considered one of the toughest phones ever created, which probably explains this amount of success.
5. Watches and alarm clocks will disappear
Do you actually remember these? Not long ago, we used to wear them on our wrists and those alarm clocks used to be on our bedside table. Today we have almost forgotten about them, soon they will completely disappear. Statistics say that around 60% of users have stopped using these classics gadgets and have replaced them with the clock and the alarm clock features included in those smartphones.
6. There is an addiction to mobile phones and it’s called nomophobia
Around 200,000 million human beings suffer from this phobia and as the fear of certain people who are afraid to leave their home without their mobile phone. There is also another term, “ringxiety” that is used to describe the feeling of hearing the phone when it is actually not ringing, and another one called, “phubbing“, which describes the behaviour of a person who ignores everything around him/her (including human beings) due to the use of the mobile phone. Oh wait; you might be doing this at this very moment … are you?
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