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How Much Do You Know About Your Phone? 16 Amazing Facts About Phones by Cutezt(m): 9:21am On Jul 25, 2017
In recent years, mobile phones have turn into a sort of habit. In reality, it's practically difficult to envision existence without them. However, how well do you truly know your that your closest companion in your pocket? We at Tutsmap Blog have brought you a couple of amazing certainties about that thing you whip out approximately 85 times each day.

1: The First mobile phone was Motorola Dyna TAC 8000X
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The first mobile phone was the Motorola Dyna TAC 8000X .concocted in 1983 by Martin Copper, a senior worker at Motorola. It could as it were store 30 contacts with a weight of around 1.1 kg and offered talk time of 30 minutes. It's retail cost? $3,999.

2: The first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973
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The first mobile phone call was made to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs by Martin Cooper on April 3, 1973, with the first ever created mobile phone Motorola Dyna TAC.

3: The first smart phone was made by IBM
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This was the first smartphone, it is in reality more than 20 years old,and was launched on August 16, 1994 by IBM. At first code named the "Angler" , the phone was given the name "Simon Personal Communicator " before its last discharge in 1994.

It was the primary economically available touch screen phone which could be effectively worked with the assistance of stylus or fingertip and came pre-installed with capacities like a calendar , calculator , address book, and Note pad.

4: 90% of the mobile phones in Japan are waterproof

An intriguing thing is that almost 90% of the mobile phones in Japan are waterproof, as the individuals of Japan are exceptionally attached to mobile phones that they use it even in the shower.

5: Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in 2012

In 2012, Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in 14 weeks — or 262 phones for each minute and 4 phones per-second.

6: World's most expensive phone by Apple is worth $15.3 million

As we are pushing forward in this century, practically everybody has a phone, however some of them have smart mobile phones and some of them don't.

Everybody can't stand to enjoy the extravagances of life, yet there are a couple of fortunate ones who can.

For those fortunate individuals, Apple had launched its iPhone5 completely covered with 26 carat dark precious stone.

It was launched with the cost of $15.3 million and turned into the world's most costly phone.

7: Android is owned by more than 80% of users on the planet

There's no doubt the "iPhone is the lord of smartphones", yet in spite of being the greatest dealer, Apple's operating system doesn't really dominate the smartphone world. As indicated by comScore, Android pulverizes the iOS piece of the pie by 82.8%.

8: The Highest Mobile bill was $201,000

We as a whole are somewhat chafed by the ever expanding charges we pay, mobile bill being one of them. All things considered, envision being Celina Aarons, who got the greatest stun of her life when she opened her phone bill and discovered she owed $201,000 .

The reason? Celina had two siblings who were deaf and dumb and spoke with her by means of text over their phones. Normally it wasn't an issue because of a standard data plan. Be that as it may, on an outing to Canada one sibling sent more than 2,000 text messages and downloaded videos at a cost of around $2,000 per vid.

9: Cellphones holds more bacteria than our toilet sits:

overall, our phones have 18 times more microbes than our toilets.

10: Nomophobia is the fear of not having your mobile phone


11: In 2012 iPhone sales (over $22 billion) were worth more than all Microsoft products combined (over $17 billion)


13: More than 250,000 million Nokia 1100 phones were sold.

That made the Nokia brand the best selling gadget in history

14: There are more individuals on Earth with mobile phones than with toilets


15: Sonim XP3300 Force is the strongest phone on the planet

as per the Guinness Book of World Records. It tumbled from 84 feet and wasn't damaged.

16: In Finland, throwing phones is a sport

Yup, you read right, in Finland, they practice throwing of mobile phones as a sport. It is called Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_throwing



Source
http://tutsmap..com/2017/07/how-much-do-you-know-about-your-phone.html
Re: How Much Do You Know About Your Phone? 16 Amazing Facts About Phones by Cutezt(m): 9:23am On Jul 25, 2017
Mobile phone throwing world championship video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgw99VoCssU
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Re: How Much Do You Know About Your Phone? 16 Amazing Facts About Phones by ken19: 9:34am On Jul 25, 2017
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