Your mobile phone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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In 1983, the first mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. at almost $4,000 each.
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Apple sold
572,000 iPhones per day
in 2018.
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Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
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In Japan, 90% of mobile phones are waterproof because youngsters use them even in the shower.
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Mobile Phone Radiation can cause Insomnia, headaches and confusion.
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Scientists
have developed a way of
charging mobile phones
using urine.
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The first mobile phone call was made in 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor.
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Apple's iPhone has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer.
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Nomophobia
is the fear of being without your mobile phone or losing your signal.
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Over 250 million Nokia 1100 devices were sold, making it the bestselling electrical gadget in history.
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100,000 mobile phones are dropped down the toilet in Britain every year.
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More people in the world have mobile phones than toilets.
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China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.
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So many Facebook photos and videos are uploaded via mobile that it takes up 27% of upstream web traffic.
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Apple's iPhone consumes US$0.25 worth of electricity per year if it's fully charged once a day.
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65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.
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The technology behind smartphones relies on up to 250,000 separate patents.
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99% of all mobile malware is targeted at Android users.
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The average person unlocks his or her smartphone 110 times each day.
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47% of U.S. smartphone owners say their smartphone is something they "couldn't live without."
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Mobile Phone Throwing is an official sport in Finland.
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In Malaysia, it's legal to divorce your partner via text message.
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47% of millennials said in a survey they sometimes use their Smartphones to avoid people around them.
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More people have died by taking selfies in 2015 than by shark attacks.
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The world's most expensive iPhone 5 was worth US$15 million. It was made of 135 grams of 24-carat gold and the chassis was inlaid with 600 white diamonds.
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9% of Americans have used their phones during sex and 12% in the shower.
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61% of Americans say they text while driving.
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IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps already in 1994.
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It costs less that $1 a year to keep your smartphone charged up.
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In the UK, drivers who cause death while using their mobile phones, speeding or drunk, face life in prison.
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More Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.
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Phubbing is a new word meaning ‘ignoring your friends in favour of your mobile phone'.
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Scientists can deduce someone's lifestyle --grooming products they use, food they eat and medications they take-- from chemicals found on the surface of their mobile phone.
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