9 interesting facts about cell phones
- Do you know that there are 3.3 billion of active mobiles in the world? The number is equal to the half of the entire world population.
- Korean teenagers can be called text messages’ fans. They send over 200,000 text messages a year, that’s about 60.1 texts per day.
- The first mobile phone device was invented by Motorola and the device was named as DynaTAC 8000X.
- For the convenience of vote delivery, the Estonians are using their mobile phones. It also serves as a very convenient means to show their personal identification.
- The first truly mobile phone (one that didn’t require its own case for transportation) went on sale in 1985.
- Do you know two-thirds of the mobile phones users are using the backlight of their phone as a flash light? It was confirmed after the survey taken by the sprint. Well, nice use of a mobile phone.
- Up to 60% of the radiation emitted by a typical cell phone, (enough to cause heating), will be absorbed by the user’s head.
- There are half as many active cell phones on the planet as there are people.
- Cell phones (telefone celular) came into existence because of the invention of hexagonal cells in 1947, for the base stations by Bell Labs engineers at AT&T.
