You’re probably looking at your watch now. Or your smartphone. Or some other phone. Or for that matter, someone else’s phone. Time has ceased to exist. You want to go home. Or even if you don’t have any plan for the night, you don’t want to be at work.
And why is there a hamster using a phone and what does he have to do with this article?
Stick around and you’ll see. We’ll tell you a few stories. We’ll show you something.
You have one of these fancy thingamajig smarty phones today we’ll bet. And even if you don’t you’re sure to know a dozen people who have them. But what’s their backstory? From what primordial binary soup did they come from?
And so we thought about sharing with you some fun and entertaining snippets about the mobile history and facts. It will pass the time, bring a smile to your face and learn some interesting things and nice details about that little piece of digital miracle you carry around in your pocket.
The first mobile telephone call was made from a car in St. Louis, Missouri on June 17, 1946. The call was made using Bell System’s Mobile Telephone Service. And yes, we know what you’re thinking. He was a trucker. The full scoop is here.
The Mobile App Economy has created nearly 500,000 jobs in the US. Check here to find out more.
The First SmartphoneThe first smartphone was The IBM Simon Personal Communicator announced at COMDEX on November of 1992. It was a massive device with stylus support for touch input, 1 or 1.8MB memory card support and a nickel-cadmium battery, providing about one hour of talk time. At the time, Simon was priced at $599. Now it’s mostly a collector’s item, though it might become a rare and valuable museum piece in the future.
The first SMS message was sent from a computer to a mobile device on the 3rd of december in 1992 in the U.K. Neil Papworth sent a message to his friend Richard Jarvis. The message read ,,Merry Christmas”.
The term “smartphone” did not appear until 1997, when Ericsson described its GS 88 “Penelope” concept as a “Smart Phone”.
British jeweler Stuart Hughes claimed to have created the most expensive mobile phone in the world called iPhone 4 “Diamond Rose”. It comes with a price tag of £5 million which comes out to be $8,184,968.42. The bezel is handmade from rose with approx 500 individual flawless diamonds which total over 100ct. The rear section is formed using rose gold with the added touch of its rose gold Apple logo and 53 diamonds.
And you thought your smartphone was expensive didn’t you?
The first handheld mobile phone was made in 1973 by Motorola employee Martin Cooper. The phone was named the DynaTAC 8000X and was commercially released 11 years later in 1984. At the time it cost $3,995 which is around $9,000 in today’s money when you account for inflation. It weighed 2.5 pounds and Martin made his first call with it to his rival and he bragged about it.
Even unborn children have a just-in-case mobile subscription
The number of mobile phone subscriptions has skyrocketed over the past 12 years. Fewer than 1 billion mobile subscriptions were active in 2000, while there are six billion subscriptions active today.
There are 775,000 total apps in the iOS App Store since January 2013. Android sports a close estimate, somewhere in the 800,000 apps. Android and Apple are racing towards hitting the 1 million apps mark but Android, according to figures, seems to have a good lead on Apple, and is expected to reach 1 mil apps by June 2013.
Well, figures are estimate when it comes to really big numbers, but in February 2012, the number was $1,3 trillion. Subtract from that number the mobile app market which was at $30 bn. Yes. Thirty. No typo’s.
The fear of loosing your phone is called Nomophobia. Half the world has it.
It takes 26 hours for the average person to report a lost wallet. It takes 68 minutes for them to report a lost phone.
Mobile coupons get 10 times the redemption rate of traditional coupons.
They grow up so fast don’t they? Thomas Suarez ring a bell? Instead of playing tag on the playground like normal 12-year olds, young Thomas spends his free time developing apps.
As for the hamster checking the phone earlier, didn’t you know that micro-hamsters technologically shrinked to size inhabit your phone to run software? You might counteract with the argument that smartphones have ARM processors or Snapdragon ones, but that’s just half of the story. If you don’t believe us, there’s a small escape hatch in the shape of a tea leaf at the bottom of each smartphone or tablet. Just at the bottom, use a magnifier.
Infographic time. Let’s take a look at the world!
Source : Somobile
And there you have it. Now we hope we eased your monday, or friday or whatever day you are stoically bearing. We hope you learned something and brought a smile to your face.
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