Mobile phones have become so integral to our modern way of life that they have
changed the way we work, communicate, relax and play in this video we look at
18 weird phone facts. Number 1 When the iPhone was introduced in 2007
the Apple CEO used it to make a public prank call ordering four thousand Lattes
from a nearby Starbucks, however the engineers have a prototype iPhone which
Jobs was using were also relieved that it worked without a hitch throughout the
presentation as the then unfinished iPhone was being very buggy and unreliable,
so jobs only showed the iPhone doing things that they though would do
without crashing it. Number 2. Approximately 100,000 mobile phones are
lost each year or damaged beyond repair by being accidentally dropped down
toilets in the United Kingdom. Number 3,
talking of toilets your phone has 18 times more bacteria on it than a toilet
seat.
Number 4 More people in the world now own a mobile phone then a toothbrush or
for that matter but toilet. Number 5 Apple owes much of his fortune to the
iPhone with over 830 million units sold it has made
approximately 70% of the company's $200 billion dollar cash pile. Number 6, the
most popular single phone model in the world was the Nokia 1100, with over
250 million units sold this also makes it the biggest selling
electronic gadget in history.
Number 7, video and photos uploaded via mobiles to Facebook now account for
up to 27% of all upstream web traffic. Number 8 mobile phones are now
incredibly energy efficient compared to a PC for example, an iPhone costs just 25
US cents a year, if it is fully charged once a day every day.
Number 9 The technology behind a modern smartphone now relies upon up to
250,000 separate Patents. Number 10, 48% of smartphone owners in the
United States say that they couldn't live without their devices. Number 11, In
the nine years since the first iPhone was released and up until April 2016
apple has sold about 830 million iPhones which works out
to an average of 261,000 iPhones per day worldwide or about
3 every second since its launch in 2007. Number 12. 99% of malware is
targeted at Android phone users. Number 13. The first commercially available
mobile phone was a Motorola DynaTAC 8000 and it
was released in 1984 at a cost of $3,995 at around about $9,500 in today's
valuations. It had a 30 minute talk time and took 10 hours to recharge, so
maybe we haven't moved as far forward as you would like to think. Number 14. The
idea of cell phone was first proposed by Bell Labs in 1947 but it wouldn't be
until the early 1970's before the technology and advanced
enough to make them a truly portable device that we know of today and even
then it wouldn't be until 1984 a further ten years later before it became
available for sale to the general public.
Number 15. 65% of smartphone owners download on average
zero apps per month.
Number 16. With all the hype of the iPhone received you would think that
their biggest sellers but in fact they are a long way behind android-based
smartphones with Android taking 73% of all sales
followed by Apple
just 18% in Windows 7% and 2% for the rest. Number 17
there is now a recognized phobia called nomo phobia which is the fear of being
without a mobile phone.
Number 18. With all be in-fighting between Samsung and Apple you would think
that the two companies would hate each other, well maybe they do but as they say
money trumps everything and the computer chip that powers the iPhone is
apparently made by Samsung according to technical intelligence experts who
analyzed chip with an electron microscope. thanks for watching and I
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