Some people consider smartphones to be the first step in integrating technology into our own bodies. As an extension of our brains and our senses, smartphones give us extra knowledge, extra memory, and even extra vision.
Or have you never used them to search for information on the Internet, to consult notes, to translate some text or to take pictures? Smartphones make up for some of our shortcomings, and make us smarter (at least when we have them in our hands!).
Although it seems that they have been with us all our lives and that we know everything about them, surely there are still some curiosities about smartphones that you would like to know. In this post we are going to know some of them. Let’s get started!
The first call from a mobile phone was made on April 3, 1973.
Its author was Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer, from a mobile phone that was on a street in New York. Interestingly, the call was made to one of his biggest rivals in the industry, AT&T engineer Joel Engel, just before giving a press conference announcing that he had just made the first call from a mobile phone. The message began with: “Don’t you know where I’m calling you from?”
The first “smartphone” dates from 1997
This is the Ericsson GS88 “Penelope” model. It has the honor of having been the first mobile phone called a “smart phone” , a term that ended up becoming, as you well know, tremendously popular.
The best-selling mobile phone model in history is the Nokia 1100
At least until today. With 250 million units sold, it is considered one of the most resistant ever created, which has probably contributed to its being the best seller.
They have done away with clocks and alarm clocks
You remember them? A short time ago we wore them on our wrists or they were an essential on our nightstand. Today we have almost completely forgotten about them, as if they did not exist. Statistics state that around 60% of users have stopped using these classics and have replaced them with the clock and alarm functions of smartphones.
Mobile phone addiction is called nomophobia
Something like 200,000 million human beings suffer from it and it describes, specifically, the fear that certain people feel when leaving home without their mobile phone. There is also another term, “ ringxiety ” to describe the feeling you have when you think you hear or vibrate your mobile phone and in reality this has not happened, and another one, “ phubbing ”, which describes the behavior of a person who ignores what that you have around you (and especially other people) to concentrate on your mobile phone. Something you may be doing right now…
Although it is very likely that nomophobes upload the average, it is estimated that we revise it every little more than 6 minutes on average. If you don’t have it now in your hand… don’t you feel like taking a look at it? (Better finish the article and leave that for later…).
There are already more mobile phones than people in the world
This occurs because the number of people who have a mobile phone in the world is very high (about 5,000 million, and rising) and each user has around 1.5 terminals on average , which means that the number of mobile lines is about 7.5 billion, while the world is populated by about 7.35 billion people.
The most expensive mobile phone in the world costs… 95.5 million dollars!
This is the Falcon Supernova Pink Diamond IPhone 6, which has a case made of 18-carat gold and has a large pink diamond embedded on the back. Fortunately, there is also a more affordable version of this phone, which you can buy for as little as $48.5 million.
Mobile phones contain far more bacteria than a toilet flush.
According to various studies, the number of bacteria found on mobile phone screens is 20 to 30 times higher than that found inside a toilet . That’s a good reason not to put it in his mouth, don’t you think?
The name of Bluetooth comes from a Nordic king
It is about the Danish and Norwegian King of the 10th century, Harald Blatand , erroneously translated into English as Harald Bluetooth (blue tooth). Known for his speech and conviction, this King was able to unify the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish tribes and convert them to Christianity. More clues to know that we are right: the Bluetooth logo combines the Hagall and Berkana runes, which correspond to the initials of Harald Bluetooth.
In Finland, launching mobile phones is a sport
And not only that, but they have even organized annually, since the year 2000, a world championship for throwing mobile phones. The distance record, to this day, is established at 97 meters for men and 40 meters for women.
There’s a mobile phone circling through space
It is a Google Nexus phone, launched into space in 2013 by researchers from the University of Surrey (United Kingdom) in order to test the resistance of its components under vacuum conditions and its ability to control a satellite in space. At the time, it was circling the Earth…
These are 12 curiosities about smartphones, those little gadgets that have changed our lives without us realizing it. And now, why don’t you discover eHorus ?
Ehorus is a nice and cute remote desktop software (remote management system for computer equipment), and it’s looking forward to meeting you.
