Mobile has become a part of everyone’s life. Without it, life is full of discomfort nowadays. Do you know these unknown things about mobile phones?
1. Price of the first mobile
The first mobile phone was sold in the year 1983. Martin Cooper invented it. Believe it or not, the first mobile phone cost around $4,000.
2. Mobile Phones and toilet seat
You may find this fact of mobile a bit more funny and unhealthy. But your mobile which you always keep in your hand is very dirty. We carry mobile with us almost everywhere. A mobile used every day contains 18 times more bacteria than your toilet seat. Therefore your mobile should be cleaned regularly.
3. Mobile phones are more powerful than a spaceship
You will be talking about the chips and processors in your mobile. Android phones keep finding new ways to make their processors more powerful. According to NASA, most mobile phones now have more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
4. 340,000 iPhones sold in one day
iPhones are the favorite mobile of most of the population. I don’t know if the iPhone craze is more or less, but in 2012, iPhone sales were high. Apple sold 340,000 iPhones in a single day. About 12.5 crore phones were sold that year.
5. The weight of the first mobile phone
Today’s mobile phones weigh around 200 grams, with newer models becoming lighter (weightless) day by day. However, the first mobile phone weighed about 2.5 pounds or approximately 1.13 kg. You can imagine how it feels to carry around 1 kg of weight in your pocket.
6. Mobile Phones and fear
When our mobiles are switched off or switched off or you forget it somewhere, we get a bit worried. But you will be surprised to know that the fear of being without a mobile is shared by almost everyone. This fear has a name, ‘nomophobia’. The term is a portmanteau of the phrase ‘no mobile phobia’. We all have this condition so we must face it together.
7. Nokia and Morse Code
When you hear the name Nokia mobile, you automatically think of the snake game. But along with it the famous ringtone of Nokia also comes to mind. But did you know, Nokia ringtones are actually SMS in Morse code.
8. Illusion of ringing
Everyone must have experienced that our mobile phone rings even when it is not ringing. We often pick up the phone without ringing to check if it is really ringing. This is a real mental phenomenon by doing ringxiety. This too is commonly experienced by everyone.
9. The Mystery of 9:41 am
Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in 2007. He made the announcement at 9:41 am. After that, Apple announces every iPhone at 9:41 am. Did you know this?
10. Website VS Application
Your phone will have many different types of apps. What do you use more? App or website? According to a research, approximately 65 to 85 percent of the average mobile usage time of a mobile user is spent on mobile applications. The time spent on the website is very less.
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