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Top 10 Facts about Mobile Phone
The whole world today revolves around technology. And the most popular and modern means of the technological invention that we all people highly use today are mobile phone. We’ve come to a state where we are unable to survive without this gadget. Everything we need is updated to mobile phone and we can live with this one gadget alone.
Now in this article, I’m here to share some of the interesting facts about a cell phone that you all might not know.
The first call was made from a mobile phone on April 3, 1973
The first call was made by Martin Cooper, engineer of Motorola from the mobile phone from the streets of New York. He called one of the biggest rivals in the sector, engineer Joel Engel from AT and T. It was just made before giving a press conference to announce that he had just made the first call from his Mobile Phone. The first few words were spoken by him were ” Do you know where I am calling you from?”.
Addiction to mobile phones was called Nomophobia
We people nowadays get addicted so easily to mobile phones. And do you know that addiction to mobile phones was called Nomophobia? People who are in this condition are severely addicted to mobile phones and are being termed as Nomophobians. There are also separate treatments for this medical condition and most people unknowingly have this kinda condition, with no seriousness.
There are more mobile phones more than people in the world
This fact is of no astonishment. It is no surprise that there are more mobile phones than humans in our world. For every number of users in the world, there are 1.5 phones on average. We all know that we all have at least 2 phones for ourselves. Always we have an extra phone with us for emergency purposes. Also, the craze for new mobile phones will never disappear. This a proven study and it has no criticisms at all.
The most expensive mobile phone in the world costs 95.5 million dollars
It is super startling that the world’s most expensive mobile phone costs 95.5 million dollars. It is so incredible that how could a mobile phone have been sold for so many dollars and who would have bought that. It was the Falcon Supernova Pink Diamond iPhone 6. Its case was made up of 18-carat gold and to the ample touch, it has got the rare pink Diamond on the back of it. There are also some affordable versions of this model mobile which you can buy for 45 million dollars, not so affordable as it claimed!
In Finland throwing a mobile phone is a sport
In today’s world, everything is so weird and we’ve not even imagined such things. One such thing is that throwing out mobile phones is a sport in Finland. There was also a world record set for this. The record limit for men is 97 meters and 40 meters for women. The championship will be announced according to the height and distance a person throws his or her mobile phone.
Mobile phones are dirtier than toilet handles
It’s a well-known fact that mobile phones are not good in so many ways. But do you know that they are dirtier than toilet handles? Yes, you carry away your mobile phone wherever you go no matter what place it is. So study show that mobile phones contain or carry 18 types of harmful germs. It is because you carry them everywhere and they catch up all the germs outside. So never fail to externally clean your phone regularly.
Mobile phones can be charged without electricity
When comes to charging your phone, you use electric chargers to do that. But it is a fact that scientists use their urine to charge their phones. It may sound a little creepy, but it’s all true. They use smart toilets to store and use energy to charge their phones.
On iPhones you can take selfies with the headphone cords
There are so many tricks that came along the way since the emergence of smartphones that too particularly iPhones. One of those tricks is you can take selfies with your headphone cord. So if you have your old unused headphone, then go grab them, and try out this wonderful trick to take farther selfies from your iPhone.
Android versions are always named after sweet treats
Every one of us will for sure noticed that something uniform happens every time a new version of Android is launched. So, yes all of the android’s new version is being named after sweet treats. For instance, I have mentioned some of their versions here below,
- Cupcake – Android 1.5
- Donut – Android 1.6
- Eclair – Android 2.0
- Gingerbread – Android 2.3
- KitKat – Android 4.4
- Lollipop – Android 5
iPhone didn’t belong to apple
This fact doesn’t tell us any information about the present ownership. But initially, Cisco owned the trademark of “iPhone”. These two companies were having a negotiation at first and after all, came to a settlement after the launch.
So these are the top 10 facts about the mobile phone that I wanted to share with you.