Phone facts – Discover fascinating truths about mobile devices
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
The first phone call was made on March 10, 1876, and Bell famously said, Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.
The first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper.
The first handheld mobile phone weighed almost 2.5 pounds!
There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people.
The average person spends over four hours a day on their phone.
The iPhone was launched by Apple on June 29, 2007.
The first text message was sent on December 3, 1992.
The most popular smartphone operating system is Android.
The first camera phone was introduced in 2000.
A smartphone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The shortest phone call ever made was just 0.016 seconds long.
The first mobile phone virus was discovered in 2004.
The first phone with a full-color touchscreen was the LG Prada.
The Nokia 1100 is the best-selling phone of all time.
The word hello was used to answer the phone after Thomas Edison suggested it.
The first phone book was published in 1878 and only had 50 names.
The first rotary dial phone was introduced in 1892.
The Nokia tune is based on a guitar phrase from Francisco Tárrega’s Gran Vals composition.
The average American checks their phone 96 times a day.
The world’s most expensive phone costs over $88 million.
The first smartphone with a built-in fingerprint scanner was the Motorola Atrix 4G.
The BlackBerry was the most popular smartphone in the early 2000s.
The iPhone 11 Pro has the best smartphone camera.
The first iPhone did not have an app store.
The selfie was the word of the year in 2013, according to Oxford Dictionaries.
The first phone with a built-in camera was the J-SH04, released in 2000.
The first text message with the acronym LOL was sent in 1989.
The first phone with a built-in MP3 player was the Samsung SPH-M2100, released in 1999.
The average person unlocks their phone 150 times a day.
The first phone with a color display was the Siemens S10, released in 1998.
The first phone with a built-in GPS was the Benefon Esc!.
The first phone with a touchscreen was IBM’s Simon, released in 1994.
The first phone with a forward-facing camera was the Kyocera VP-210 Visual Phone, released in 1999.
The first phone with a built-in voice recorder was the Sanyo SCP-5300, released in 2002.
The average phone contains more bacteria than a toilet seat.
The first phone with an integrated music player was the Samsung SPH-M100 Uproar, released in 2000.
The first phone with a built-in web browser was the Nokia 9000 Communicator, released in 1996.
The first commercially available flip phone was the Motorola StarTAC, released in 1996.
The average person spends over 3 years of their life on their phone.
The first phone call from space was made in 1965 by the Gemini 3 astronauts.
The first phone with a built-in calculator was the Casio CM-602, released in 1974.
The first phone to have wireless charging was the Palm Pre, released in 2009.
The first phone to have a touch screen keyboard was the IBM Simon, released in 1994.
The first phone with a built-in digital camera was the Sharp J-SH04, released in 2000.