Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Age of Mobile Phones



Almost everybody of the billions people have their own mobile phones. In fact, people have more phones than toilet seats. Mobile phones are more than just sending sms or calling people but you can also use it for internet, play games, calculate values, take pictures and help you wake up on time. Do you these interesting facts about them? 

The first mobile phones were sold in the USA. They were really bigger and heavier than the thin and slim phones we are having right now. It was first used for military purpose but eventually became available in the market for 4000 U.S. Dollars. Martin Cooper was the first man to call using the mobile phone. 
Talking about selling phones in the market, the company of Apple sold an estimated 340, 000 phones in 2012. IPhone 5 was available during this year.Now,one of the first men who bought the IPhone 6 accidentally dropped it right after purchasing However, No one can beat Nokia who sold over 250 million Nokia 1100 models of phones. Mobile phone industries are the fastest growing companies in the world. 
Teenagers always have their phones on their hands. Users spend their time with mobile phones for gaming and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Did you know that phones have 18 times more bacteria than a regular toilet seat. Even in Japan, most phones were waterproof because children bring them even to shower. You should probably avoid using it too much cause it could cause confusion, insomnia and headaches. When you have a fear losing your phone, you have a Nomophobia.
Phones can actually be recycled and can reduce carbon emission to our atmosphere. However, only 1 % of the total number of phones are being recycled. In 2008, 56 million phones were just discarded into landfills. 90 % of the phone's parts can be recovered like nickel,cobalt, copper and plastic. 

Watch this funny advertisement of Microsoft in relation to other brands.

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