A mobile phone (cellphone, etc.) is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone). The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City on 3 April 1973, using a handset weighing c. 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs)
There is an addiction to mobile phones and it’s called nomophobia
Around 200,000 million human beings suffer from this phobia and as the fear of certain people who are afraid to leave their home without their mobile phone. There is also another term, “ringxiety” that is used to describe the feeling of hearing the phone when it is actually not ringing, and another one called, “phubbing“, which describes the behaviour of a person who ignores everything around him/her (including human beings) due to the use of the mobile phone. Oh wait; you might be doing this at this very moment … are you?
Although it is very likely that people who suffer from nomophobia do this a lot more often than average, it is said that we check our phones every 6 minutes on average. Are you holding yours right now … Don’t you feel like taking a quick look at it? (You’d better finish the article and leave that for later on…).
Mobile phones contain many more bacteria than a toilet flush
According to several studies, the number of bacteria found on the screens of mobile phones is 20 and 30 times more than what has been found in a toilet bowl. So that’s a good reason to keep it away from your mouth, don’t you think?
The term Bluetooth comes from a Nordic king
It is about the Danish and Norwegian King of the 10th century, Harald Blatand, wrongly translated into English as Harald Bluetooth.
But wait, the best part is that it is also organised annually, since the year 2000, a world championship in throwing mobile phones is held. The distance record, to date, is set at 97 meters for men and 40 meters for women
There is a mobile phone out in space
It is a Google Nexus phone, launched into space in 2013 by researchers from the University of Surrey (United Kingdom) in order to check the resistance of its components in vacuum conditions and its ability to control a satellite in space. At some point, it was going around the Earth …
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of smartphones produced by Apple Inc. that use Apple's own iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007.
The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple that combines a computer, iPod, digital camera and cellular phone into one device with a touchscreen interface
