35 Amazing Facts You Should Know About Cellphones | Amazing Facts 4U
- The first cellphone telephone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor, who is known as “the father of the cellphone”. From Sixth Avenue in New York he amazingly rang the boss of a rival manufacturer.
- The weight of the first cellphone used to make that call was amazing 2 lb. The brick–like battery allowed a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to charge.
- In 1983 the first cellphone phones went on sale in the US costing amazing $4,000 each. By 1990 there were a million users.
- The fact is that cellphone phone industry is the fastest growing in the world.
- Amazingly there are about 6 billion cellphones in the world .
- Amazing fact : Take all phones in the world and stack them up, we’ll be able to climb about 48,000 miles up!
- The average phone is said to include about 3% gold. Now, if we combine that gold from all cell phones in the world, it will make for amazing 26,000 tons of gold.
- Modern Cellphones weigh less than 3 oz .
- Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. Amazingly they are not connected to any circuitry.
- It’s amazing that ringtones now account for 10 per cent of the world’s music market, generating about $ 3 Billion.
- Amazingly South korea’s SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
- Fact is as much as 75% of microwaves from cellphone phones are absorbed by your head !
- All cell phones emit electromagnetic radiation. Fact is this radiation from your cell phone can travel up to 20 feet effecting not only you but family and friends.
- Research has shown that mobile phone users are at 2.5 times risk of brain tumors caused by phone radiation.
- Fact is cell phone manufacturers have the technology to reduce the radiation that would escape into the user’s head, but they are no willing to do so. This is because in doing so their profits would decrease.
- The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander which was used to travel to the moon, had less processing power than the processor of a simple cell phone.
- Amazingly the most common use for a cellphone is neither calling nor texting but checking the time.
- It’s amazing that more than 180 million iPhones have been sold to date.
- The bestselling single model is the Nokia 1100, made in Finland. More than 250 million devices were sold.
- Apple sold an amazing 340,000 iPhones per day in 2012.
- The first photo to be shared using a cellphone phone was taken in 1997 by Philippe Kahn from France credited with developing the world’s first camera phone.
- The Sonim XP3300 Force is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the toughest phone. It survived after an 84 ft drop on to a layer of concrete.
- The world’s first smartphone debuted in 1993 at Florida’s Wireless World Conference. Launched by BellSouth Cellular . Only 2000 sets were made.
- The man credited with creating the SMS , the cellphone phone’s short message service is German Friedhelm Hillebrand in 1985.
- British jeweller Stuart Hughes lays claim to creating the world’s most expensive cellphone phone, The iPhone 4 “Diamond Rose” edition costing $7million. It is amazingly studded with more than 500 diamonds.
- Fact is there are nearly two-million mobile towers and antennas in the U.S.
- Amazing fact is that US prisoners caught with a cellphone get 25 years added to their sentence. This is longer then most sentances for murder.
- In 1986 Scott Jones, a 26-year-old scientist at MIT, invented the modern cellular voicemail system.
- A chinese designer has amazingly made a Coca-Cola powered cell phone.
- A modern cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon.
- Using your phone while it’s charging can damage the battery. This is why the cords for chargers are so short.
- It’s amazing that 1 ton of cell phones has more gold than 17 tons of gold ore!
- Amazingly from a single ton of cell phones, around 280 grams of gold could be extracted along with 140 grams of platinum and palladium and 140 kg of copper. But it is not easy to extract Gold from mobile.
- Using your phone while it is charging may damage the battery. This is why cords for the charger are kept short.
- 90 % of mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof as people tend to use them even during shower.
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