Versatile and fashionable modern smartphones could easily replace our players, phones, watches, calculators, alarm clocks and other everyday devices. Now almost everyone can tell about these devices, regardless of age, cultural and taste characteristics. But there are also facts about smartphones that are less known in our world and about which device owners may first hear.
1.More than a billion smartphones were released in 2016, and in the first half of 2017, more than 647 million units were produced.
2. The most expensive elements of a smartphone are the screen and memory.
3. Every 10th smartphone user, even while making love, does not let go of this device.
4. In South Korea, a smartphone “disease” was invented - digital dementia. It has been proven that if you get carried away with using a smartphone, then a person loses the ability to concentrate.
5. More than 20 billion apps are downloaded to smartphones every year.
6.Today there are more smartphones than toilets in India.
7. The Finns have created a new sport - smartphone throwing. This is due to the fact that they are tired of struggling with addiction to modern gadgets.
8. Japanese people use a smartphone even while taking a shower.
9. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has 2 smartphones.
10. At the heart of every smartphone is an operating system.
11. When buying a smartphone, people today pay more attention not to hardware, but to the software of the device.
12. The term “smartphone” was introduced by Ericsson Corporation in 2000 to refer to Ericsson's own new phone, the R380s.
13. The price of the first smartphone was about $ 900.
14. Literally "smartphone" is translated as "smart phone".
15) A smartphone has much more processing power than a computer that takes astronauts to the moon.
16. Nomophobia is the fear of being left without a smartphone.
17. More than 250 thousand patents are based on smartphone technology.
18. The average person looks at their smartphone about 110 times daily.
19.Most smartphones in Japan are waterproof.
20. About 65% of smartphone users do not download applications on it.
21. Approximately 47% of Americans could not live a day without using a smartphone.
22. The first smartphone was a commercial touchscreen device that can be controlled with a stylus or a simple finger touch.
23. Modern smartphones are "power hungry" devices.
24.The very first thin smartphone is considered a gadget made in Korea. Its thickness was only 6.9 millimeters.
25. The weight of the world's first smartphone was only 400 grams.
26. A disorder in which a person is afraid to answer calls on a smartphone is called telephonophobia.
27. There are only 2 types of the most expensive smartphones in the world. This is a Vertu gadget and a customized iPhone.
28. About 1,140 calls per year are made from a smartphone.
29. The world's first smartphone was launched 20 years after the first mobile phone appeared.
30 In rural India, 100 million people have a smartphone.
31. About 64% of young people choose a smartphone for themselves on the principle "the same as my friend's."
32.Brazil has seen strong growth in smartphone sales over the year. Sales growth is about 120%.
33. Approximately 83% of young people use a smartphone as a camera.
34. About 18 thousand messages are sent every year by a teenager in the UK.
35. Every 3rd smartphone holder consult with friends before buying it.
