23+ Very Interesting Facts on Smartphones - That You didn't Know !!

Nowadays, Mobile Phones are an unavoidable part of our life. We rarely, maybe haven't seen a person without it. But how much do you know about it or about its history?

Do you know, for example,  what the fear of being without a phone is called?

Do you know what is the number of average apps in smartphones?

Do you know the name of the most expensive smartphone ever?

So, In this post, you will get 26 amazing facts on Smartphones. 

26 interesting facts on Smartphones

• What is the number of apps on your phone? 32? 48? 68? or more?. Be amazed or not, the global average is 80!

• Do you use your smartphone while driving? You will probably say No or Sometimes. But as per a report, the average time a driver uses a smartphone while driving is 3.5 minutes an hour.

• The first 'Smartphone' in the world is SIMON. The apps it supported were a calendar app, world clock, calculator, Fax, email, notepad, and some games. It costed a whopping price of around $1000 or ₹70,000.

• The first Call and the first SMS occurred in April 1973 and December 1992 respectively.

• More than 4 Billion people own Smartphones when the estimated population of the planet is 7 million!

• 25% of Internet users access it from Mobile devices.

• The number of smartphones on this planet is more than 5 times the number of PCs. 

• Hong kong's population is about 7.5 million when the number of mobile subscriptions is more than 17.5 million!

   

• About 33% of People either lose or damage their smartphone every year. 

• Modern smartphones are more powerful than the instruments used in Apollo and Luna space missions.

• More people in the world own smartphone than toothbrush :()

• Every iPhone ads show 9:41 as the time as it was the time when Steve Jobs first launched iPhone 1.

• India is one of the most fast-growing smartphone markets. 

• The First phone for sale weighed about 2.5 pounds; Now the average weight of modern smartphones is less than 250 grams!

• There are more than 1.2 billion mobile subscriptions in China, only!

• People can suffer from "ringxiety", a psychoacoustic phenomenon when or feel your mobile phone ringing or not.

• The fear of being without a mobile phone or losing its signal is known as nomophobia,

   

  

• More than 80% of smartphones run on Android.

• 91% of adults keep their mobile phone on an arms reach

• An average no: of times a person unlocks their phone is at least 110 times a day.

• Mobile phones are contaminated 18x more by bacteria, than toilets.

• Mobile phone throwing is an official sport in Finland.

• One ton of mobile phones contains more gold than one ton of gold ore!

• In 2015, Apple reclaimed about one ton of gold from recycling iPhones.

• Old Nokia SMS tone represents the letters of SMS in morse code.

• Mobile phones sold in Japan are mostly waterproof. so that they can be used in shower :) 

 

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