Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926. He said in the January 30, 1926 issue of Collier's magazine: “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but...we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket.”
Martin Cooper of Motorola publicly demonstrated the world's first handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973. He made a call from a New York City street on a prototype DynaTAC model to a landline phone, which was answered by Joel Engel, the head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs.
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first portable cellular phone to be commercially released. It received approval from the U.S. FCC on September 21, 1983. It was priced at $3,995 in 1984.
DynaTAC 8000X took roughly 10 hours to fully charge and it offered 30 minutes of talk time. It also offered an LED display for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers.
The first British mobile phone call was made by Michael Harrison to say "happy New Year" to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.on January 1, 1985.
The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon) was first introduced on November 23, 1992, at the COMDEX computer and technology trade show in Las Vegas.
The world's first smartphone, the IBM Simon was released in 1994. The device cost $899, and had only one third party app.
The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell/flip mobile phone, was released on January 3, 1996. The StarTAC was among the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption; approximately 60 million StarTACs were sold.
The mobile phone number 666 6666 fetched £1.5 million in a charity auction in Qatar in 2007.
As of February 2013, China became the world's biggest user of smartphones, bumping the U.S. out of the Number one spot.
It is thought that the number of mobile phones on Earth overtook the number of people in 2014. The number of active mobile devices and human beings crossed over somewhere around the 7.19 billion mark.
According to Ofcom, the average person in the UK spends 39 minutes a day on the phone.
A 2013 poll reported that 54% of people suffer from 'nomophobia', the fear of having no mobile phone.
The average British child makes its first mobile-phone call at the age of eight.
Florida man Jason Humphreys used a cell phone jammer everyday while travelling to work because he didn't want drivers around him to be distracted on their phones. As a result, he was fined $48,000 in 2014 by the FCC.
47 per cent of all water-damaged mobile phones in the UK have been dropped in the toilet bowl.
Ninety percent of all mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof because the young like to use them even while showering.
Martin Cooper of Motorola publicly demonstrated the world's first handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973. He made a call from a New York City street on a prototype DynaTAC model to a landline phone, which was answered by Joel Engel, the head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs.
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first portable cellular phone to be commercially released. It received approval from the U.S. FCC on September 21, 1983. It was priced at $3,995 in 1984.
DynaTAC 8000X took roughly 10 hours to fully charge and it offered 30 minutes of talk time. It also offered an LED display for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers.
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| A DynaTAC 8000X By Redrum0486 - wikipedia Commons |
The first British mobile phone call was made by Michael Harrison to say "happy New Year" to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.on January 1, 1985.
The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon) was first introduced on November 23, 1992, at the COMDEX computer and technology trade show in Las Vegas.
The world's first smartphone, the IBM Simon was released in 1994. The device cost $899, and had only one third party app.
The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell/flip mobile phone, was released on January 3, 1996. The StarTAC was among the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption; approximately 60 million StarTACs were sold.
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| A en:Motorola StarTAC (en:GSM model), By ProhibitOnions at the English language Wikipedia, |
The mobile phone number 666 6666 fetched £1.5 million in a charity auction in Qatar in 2007.
As of February 2013, China became the world's biggest user of smartphones, bumping the U.S. out of the Number one spot.
It is thought that the number of mobile phones on Earth overtook the number of people in 2014. The number of active mobile devices and human beings crossed over somewhere around the 7.19 billion mark.
According to Ofcom, the average person in the UK spends 39 minutes a day on the phone.
A 2013 poll reported that 54% of people suffer from 'nomophobia', the fear of having no mobile phone.
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| Evolution of mobile phones, to an early smartphone |
The average British child makes its first mobile-phone call at the age of eight.
Florida man Jason Humphreys used a cell phone jammer everyday while travelling to work because he didn't want drivers around him to be distracted on their phones. As a result, he was fined $48,000 in 2014 by the FCC.
47 per cent of all water-damaged mobile phones in the UK have been dropped in the toilet bowl.
Ninety percent of all mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof because the young like to use them even while showering.
Samsung created a butt-shaped robot called the "Butt Drop Test Machine" to test the durability of their phones. The robot exerts 220 pounds of pressure on the phones, which is equivalent to the weight of a person sitting on them. The robot also wears jeans to simulate the friction that would be caused by a person sitting on the phone.
It takes 165 pounds of raw, mined earth elements to produce an average cell phone.
An average cell phone has about half a gram of lithium and an average laptop has five grams of lithium.
It takes 165 pounds of raw, mined earth elements to produce an average cell phone.
An average cell phone has about half a gram of lithium and an average laptop has five grams of lithium.
There's no known gas station explosions attributed to cell phone usage, and the evidence it's even possible is unfounded.
There's more gold in a ton of mobile phones than there is in a ton of gold ore.
Analysts predicted in 2022 that of the 16 billion phones in existence, 5.3 billion would become obsolete. The number of phones getting tossed every year keeps rising.
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