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The question of who invented the telephone today does not make anyone think for long. “Of course, Alexander Bell!” - almost any of us will say and... be mistaken. Five years before Bell, a device with an absolutely similar operating principle was invented by Antonio Meucci. But he never agreed to pay $10 for the patent - maybe because of stinginess, or maybe because he didn’t fully believe in his invention. As a result, all the laurels of the “father” of telephony went to Bell.

At first Bell's phone did not ring, but whistled.

Bell himself was amazing person. He deeply believed in God and created his invention, among other things, in order to communicate with people who had already passed on to another world. And I sincerely believed that this was possible. The inventor himself could not appreciate the delights of the device that is associated with his name: both he and his wife were completely deaf.

Bell's second idea, besides actually inventing the telephone, was a fiasco. It was necessary to come up with the first word that a person would say when answering a call. Bell suggested "Ahoy" as a greeting in the German Navy. But the word didn’t catch on, but Edison’s more sonorous version – “Hello!” — everyone liked it. In some Slavic languages, including ours, it was transformed into “Hello!”

On average, each of us uses our phone more than 1,100 times a year.

The first statesman to actively use the telephone was Herbert Hoover. He installed it in personal account in 1929.

The record for the fastest SMS belongs to Singaporean citizen En Yang. He typed a 160-character message in just over 40 seconds.

The year of birth of the first SMS message was 1992, the place of birth was Britain. The SMS text was typed on a computer and sent from it to a cell phone.

Environmental activists urge mobile phone users not to throw them away, but to recycle them. So far, the calls are of little use: the number of “Sotik” lying in landfills around the world increases by 40 tons every year.

The role of the first telephones was played by people with loud voices. In the 4th century BC, they were hired by the Persian king Cyrus. Such messengers occupied the highest areas of the terrain: the tops of hills and the tops of outposts. When it was necessary to convey news from one region to another, they did it along the chain, shouting it. Whether the “damaged phone” principle known to us today worked in this case, history is silent.

The first interplanetary call was recorded in 1969, when President Nixon contacted American astronauts on the Moon. True, this fact can be considered historically reliable only if the Americans actually flew to the Moon...

The first person to “test” a mobile phone on the street was Motorola employee Martin Cooper. And he acted in a very American way: he called not his wife or friend, but the competing company AT&T. Joel Angel, who answered the call, remained enviously silent throughout the conversation. And Martin sang like a nightingale, telling him how great it was to make calls on a portable phone that you held in your hand. And, of course, he gloated.

The first mobile phones went on sale back in 1984. But they were incredibly expensive - more than $4,000.

Due to the extreme temperatures of Antarctica, there is no permanent population on the mainland: it is visited only by tourists and researchers, and then only for a short time. But this does not prevent Antarctica from having its own telephony code (+682) and even its own Internet domain - .aq.

A special phobia is dedicated to the fear of telephones, telephone calls and conversations - telephone phobia.

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1. The number of chipset cores is not at all clearly related to its performance. Sometimes four cores are more productive than eight or even ten.

   Chipset performance correlates with the number of cores only, other things being equal, when they are of the same type. However, for a more correct comparison, it is necessary to take into account other parameters: the technical process by which the chipset is manufactured and the clock frequency.

2. Even if a model's specifications say it supports , that doesn't mean it will be compatible with your ISP's network.

   

   
   Mobile devices use multiple bands or bands when operating on 4G networks. Each country has its own set of these, so detailed specifications indicate which bands the device can work with.
3. The maximum operating speed depends not only on the quality of the provider’s network, but also on the category of the LTE module of the smartphone itself.

   

   
   In the specifications, the module category is indicated as “LTE Cat.X”. The larger X, the higher the maximum speed at which the device can work with the Internet. For example, for Cat.4 the maximum download speed is 150.8 Mbit/s, and for Cat.18 – 1.2 Gbit/s.
4. The operating system, a leader in the global mobile device market, is based on the OS kernel for desktop Linux PCs.

   

   
   Linux-like systems are free software, therefore, unlike that used in devices operating system iOS, Android code is open, which gives more freedom to developers.
5. Currently, 99% of the global smartphone market is divided between iOS and Android.

   

   
   According to studies based on the analysis of Internet traffic in search engines, all other mobile operating systems, including Windows Mobile, collectively occupy less than 1% of the existing device fleet.
6. The first smartphone with a unibrow was not the Apple iPhone X, as is commonly believed, but models from completely different manufacturers.

   

   
   Even six months before the release of the “ten,” the Essential Phone, designed under the leadership of one of the creators of Android Andy Rubin, appeared on the market, and a little earlier, the Sharp Aquos S2, which was not shipped outside the country, was released in Japan.
7. The quantity greatly affects the smartphone's peak performance. But its quality is also very important.

   

   
   Models from no-name brands usually install outdated LPDDR3 RAM, while leading manufacturers have long switched to the new generation LPDDR4x, which only modern chipsets can work with.
8. The amount of built-in storage indicated in the specifications does not correspond to the actual amount of internal memory available to the user.

   

   
   The operating system and pre-installed applications require space for storage, so the user is left with much less memory to install games and store various content than it might seem when choosing a smartphone model.
9. The smallest full-featured mobile phone on this moment is the Zanco Tiny T1, created by the British company Clubit New Media.

   

   
   The little one weighs only 12 grams with a body length of 46.7 mm, but this in no way prevents it from making calls, sending and receiving text messages and storing 300 contacts in its memory. The device is equipped with an OLED display and 32 MB of RAM.
10. The first mobile phone was made not in the West, but in the Soviet Union back in 1957 by Leonid Ivanovich Kupriyanovich.

    

    
    The first sample, called LK-1, weighed about 3 kg and was capable of working with the city telephone network through a base station. Just four years later, the inventor improved his device so much that it weighed only 70 grams and fit in the palm of his hand.
11. The first commercial cellular mobile phone to allow unattended calls was the Motorola DynaTAC, which hit the market in 1973.

    

    
    The device weighed 0.8 kg and was equipped with an LED. Instead of a rotary dialer, a keyboard with nine additional keys was used. Talk time did not exceed 35 minutes, while charging required 10 hours.
12. The cheapest smartphone in the world is currently considered Freedom 251, released by the Indian company Ringing Bells in early 2016.

    

    
    The device costs only 251 rupees ($3.7), and for this money the buyer receives a device with a 4-inch 960x540 screen, 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage. The model was created with the support of the government, but whether this support included direct subsidies is unknown.
13. One of Apple's most unsuccessful smartphones is the iPhone 5, which entered the market in 2012 and brought minimal profit to the company.

    

    
    There were many reasons for the unpopularity of the model: the proprietary Lightning connector, which forced users to buy adapters, the lack of optimization of applications for the enlarged display, the new nanoSIM SIM card standard, and even the tendency for the housing coating to “peel off” at the edges of the device.
14. The first SIM cards were an order of magnitude larger than modern ones, and were similar in size to bank credit cards.

    

    
    The full-size SIM card, which appeared in 1991, had dimensions of 85.6x53.98 mm. However, the shape of the contacts exactly coincided with the more familiar Mini-SIM, which replaced this monster in 1996 with the beginning of the development of 2G networks.
15. The first Russian cellular operator was Delta-Telecom, founded in 1991 in St. Petersburg.

    

    
    The operator's network operated in the then popular NMT-450 standard. Subsequently, cellular communication services were provided under the “” brand. Currently, all company structures have ceased to exist as a result of the acquisition in 2015.
16. Any smartphone is a real storehouse of precious metals used in the production of its components.

    

    
    On average, a mobile device contains about 30 milligrams of gold, 300 mg of silver, 15 mg of palladium. In total, more than 40 different metals are used in phones today, including such rare and expensive ones as platinum, indium and ruthenium.
17. One of the creators of the most popular Android mobile operating system failed to release his own smartphone.

    

    
    Andy Rubin, who during his career collaborated with Apple, and with, and with, in 2015 founded his own company, Essential Products, in which even such an IT giant as invested. However, the Essential Phone it released failed, and Rubin sold the company itself to the little-known CloudMagic.
18. One of the legends of the global IT industry, Steve Jobs, was once simply fired from the company he created, Apple.

    

    
    In 1985, when the company had already become a real giant, disagreements between the founding father and the board of directors reached such intensity that Jobs was simply kicked out of his job. However, already in 1997 he returned to Apple, and three years later he took over as manager.
19. The most unprofitable smartphone in history was Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which “punished” the creator company by as much as $2.67 billion.

    

    
    After the model appeared on the market, widespread cases of spontaneous combustion began due to low-quality batteries. After the first batch was withdrawn and the devices were replaced with new ones that were considered safe, spontaneous combustion continued, and it had to be discontinued.
20. Samsung's R&D expenditures are more than double those of Apple.

    

    
    Despite its "first in technology" image, Apple spends far less on innovation than its competitor. In 2015 alone, this expense item for the Cupertino residents amounted to $6 billion, while the South Korean company spent $14.1 billion in the same period.
21. The largest mobile phone was created in 2009 by the South Korean company Samsung and was installed (!) on a street in Chicago.

    

    
    The monstrous monster, made for advertising purposes, had dimensions of 4.57 x 3.42 x 0.74 meters, but at the same time it was a fully functional copy of the Samsung SCH-r45 phone model, absolutely no different from it in its capabilities.
22. The popular Bluetooth wireless communication interface got its name from one of the Viking leaders.

    

    
    The “father” of the technology, Jim Kardash, gave it the name in honor of the unifier of Denmark and Norway, Harald I Blue Tooth (blue tooth), since the goal of the new interface was to combine the wireless protocols that existed at that time into a single standard.
23. The name of one of the largest electronics manufacturers, Samsung, is pronounced with the emphasis not on the second syllable, but on the first.

    

    
    In addition, the correct transcription of the name of the Samsung Group corporation will be “Samson Group”, which means “Three Stars”. Presumably this is connected with the three sons of the entrepreneur who founded it, Lee Byung-chul.
24. WhatsApp does not store user messages on its servers: they are deleted immediately after delivery.

    

    
    Rumors that arose after the purchase of the Facebook messenger that from now on WhatsApp would allegedly store messages sent by users for spying purposes are unfounded. The service's servers are simply not able to store such a quantity of information.
25. Apple started working on the iPad tablet earlier than the iPhone smartphone, but it appeared on the market much later.

    

    
    According to the creator of the iPhone, Steve Jobs, he initially had the idea of ​​​​creating a tablet without a keyboard, but later he realized that a phone could be made in a similar way. The tablet project was postponed, and the device itself was released 3 years after the announcement of the iPhone.
26. The Japanese company not only produces electronics in general and smartphones in particular, but also creates content for them.

    

    
    Currently, the company owns two world-famous film studios: Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures. In addition, Sony owns the Sony Music Entertainment brand, known to music lovers anywhere in the world. Finally, together with Comcast, it owns the entire MGM film library.
27. The correct pronunciation of the name of the Chinese IT giant will sound like “Wa-Wei”. But outside of China they still say “Huawei”.

    

    
    The name of the company was given in 1987 by one of its founders, Ren Zhengfei, who previously served as an engineer in the People's Liberation Army of China. It includes two characters for "China" and "Achievement", symbolizing Huawei's ambitions.
28. The total volume of information sent in just one day via the WhatsApp messenger cannot be accommodated by any existing hard drive.

    

    
    Every day, users of the service send an average of 60 billion messages and over 700 million photos. The total volume of data sent is estimated at hundreds of terabytes, which is an order of magnitude greater than the capacity of the currently largest 60-terabyte SSD.
29. The MIUI shell, criticized by Xiaomi anti-fans, became the first product of this Chinese company.

    

    
    At the time of its creation in 2010, it had absolutely no production capacity and was exclusively engaged in the development and promotion of its shell in the Android Market store (today -). However, a year after the company was founded, its first smartphone entered the market.
30. Xiaomi set an absolute record for smartphone sales in 2015, managing to sell 2.04 million devices in a day.

    

    
    The achievement of the Chinese company even got into the Guinness Book of Records, and Xiaomi itself brought a profit of $432 million and increased popularity among mobile device users around the world.
31. It is generally accepted that Apple is a trendsetter in the world of smartphones. But many useful things appeared on Android much earlier.

    

    
    Such finds include a dark theme in the stock version of the OS, file sharing with external drives, a swype keyboard that speeds up typing, and the Look Around viewing mode. Analogues of these features appeared in Android several years earlier than in iOS.
32. Many are sure that the first company to release a smartphone with was Samsung. In fact it is.

    

    
    In August 2008, a communicator with an OLED screen, Nokia N85, based on the Symbian platform was announced, and in October of the same year it went on sale. While the Samsung i7110, which is often considered the first AMOLED smartphone, entered the market only in February 2009.
33. was first used in a smartphone by the American company Apple in its 2013 model iPhone 5S. But it was the Chinese who thought of hiding it in the screen.

    

    
    The palm belongs to a large, but much less famous than Apple. The first model in which a fingerprint scanner was integrated into the display was the Vivo X20 Plus, presented at the international CES2018 exhibition in Las Vegas.
34. The resounding failure of the Nokia 3410 model in the Asian market was associated with the superstitions of local residents.

    

    
    The Finnish company managed to sell only 148 copies of this model. Subsequently, analysts found that the reason for the unpopularity was the presence of the number “4” in the name, which residents of Southeast Asia regard much worse than Europeans - the number “13”.
35. The first paid call on the GSM network, which today represents the main standard for mobile communications, was made from Nokia.

    

    
    The caller was Harri Holkeri, then Prime Minister of Finland, and the event itself took place in 1991 in the capital of Helsinki. The equipment on which the network operated was also produced by Nokia.
36. Nokia was founded more than a hundred years ago, back in the 19th century. And she started not with electronics, but with toilet paper.

    

    
    In 1865, mining engineer Frederik Idestam built a paper mill, which was named Nokia Ab in 1871. And in 1967, Nokia Ab took over two larger companies, as a result of which rubber products were also added to its product range.
37. Once upon a time, Samsung showed rare foresight and did not fall into the same trap as other market leaders.

    

    
    The South Korean company ignored the unsuccessful flagship chipset Snapdragon 810 in its model line - and it was right. But its competitors had serious problems due to severe overheating of their devices in 2014.
38. Today Nokia is a second-rate brand, strenuously but unsuccessfully trying to break into the ranks of the leaders. But it was not always so.

    

    
    In 1998, the company occupied a leading position in the world market, having successfully invested in GSM technology. This state of affairs continued until the mid-2000s, after which a disastrous collaboration with Microsoft followed, which bought the brand in 2013 for next to nothing and essentially ruined it.
39. The creators of the iPhone shamelessly stole technology from Nokia, for which they are still paying.

    

    
    In 2009, a trial took place between the Finnish company and Apple, which Yabloko, with all its legal power, lost. As a result, they had to pay the Finns substantial compensation, and subsequently make royalties on ten patents, which continue to this day.
40. The first company whose equipment visited the moon was the then American company.

    

    
    Neil Armstrong, who uttered the famous phrase “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” used a communication system produced by Motorola.
41. The first smartphone with a modern touch screen was released in 2007 by South Korean.

    

    
    Before this model appeared on the market, mobile devices were equipped with resistive displays that were soft to the touch and required a special stylus to work with them. The LG KE850 Prada model for the first time received a three-inch capacitive display with a resolution of 240x400.
42. In 2012, Xiaomi smartphones could be purchased at cost - and at the same time the company made a profit.

    

    
    Being a newcomer to the market, the company relied not on revenue from sales of smartphones themselves, but on servicing all kinds of services related to mobile devices. The result of this strategy was an annual profit of $3.27 million.
43. “Frenemies” Apple and Samsung are partners: many iPhone components are manufactured by the South Korean company.

    

    
    Currently, Samsung supplies Cupertino OLED display matrices, batteries, memory modules, and until recently, iPhone and iPad chipsets were also of South Korean origin. The company's profit from this cooperation amounts to billions.
44. The first product of the future Japanese company Sony was an electric rice oven. And it failed in the market.

    

    
    Masaru Ibuka, one of the co-founders of the giant, released this household appliance in the hope of its innovation, but the result was sad: the rice in the oven was either undercooked or overcooked, and as a result, its production was discontinued.
45. Attentive people might have noticed that on the screen of any iPhones filmed in advertising materials, the time is always the same - 9:41.

    

    
    There are no coincidences or magic numbers here - it’s all about the punctuality of the Apple company. The standard length of a presentation is 40 minutes, and Apple believes that the time on the audience's watch and on the slide with the new device must certainly match.
46. Package Xiaomi devices– one of the most durable among mobile device manufacturers and can withstand up to 100 kg. Don't believe me? Check it out!

    

    
    There is a widely known case when the head of the company’s PR department stood on a box and lifted Xiaomi Vice President Hugo Barr in his arms. The packaging not only remained intact, but did not even bend under the weight of two adult men!
47. The biggest failure in the history of the American chipmaker Qualcomm was the Snapdragon 810 chipset, which appeared on the market in 2014.

    

    
    The first chip, which used the subsequently popular big.LITTLE architecture, turned out to be very “hot” and was capable of delivering peak power for no more than a minute. No attempts to correct the situation helped. In addition, Qualcomm screwed Sony, LG and , ruining the reputation of their flagship models.
48. The signature SMS alert, familiar to all Nokia users, actually contains a meaningful message.

    

    
    The trill, which is unremarkable for most users, is actually an abbreviation for Short Message Service, encoded using the well-known Morse code used by signalmen.
49. There are no worse enemies than former friends: The founders of LG and Samsung were related and attended the same school.

    

    
    Lee Byung-chul, who founded his own business producing and trading rice flour before the war, and Ku In-Hwe, who in 1947 went into household chemicals and cosmetics, treated each other with respect and even created a television network together. However, their companies are currently waging war on each other with all available means.
50. The iPhone 4 became a huge disgrace for Apple due to problems with the antenna - the media even nicknamed it “antennagate” by analogy with the major political scandals of the 20th century.

    

    
    When the lower left corner of the smartphone came into contact with the palm, the mobile network signal completely disappeared. As a result, the company released and provided special bumpers and cases for free to buyers of defective devices - there was no talk of recalling the batch.
51. The once popular mobile phone manufacturer Siemens was forced to donate its mobile division, and even pay extra.

    

    
    In 2005, the loss ratio reached frightening levels: from 1.5 to 2 million euros of losses per day. The Taiwanese company accepted the “white elephant” as a gift, in addition, Siemens paid an additional €250 million and bought BenQ shares worth €50 million. Moreover, the Germans were right: the new owner also got “effective managers”, who had already brought him €600 million in losses in just a year.
52. The amounts that Samsung spends on advertising and marketing are simply astronomical: the government budgets of many countries are much smaller.

    

    
    In 2013 alone, the company spent $4 billion on advertising and $5 billion on so-called. "general marketing" Since then, costs have only increased. Meanwhile, according to the CIA Directory, the state budget of Guatemala is $8.335 billion, Nepal - $5.954 billion, and the DPRK - $3.200 billion.
53. Apple never pays for cinema advertising for its products, as other manufacturers do.

    

    
    The so-called product placement, when during the course of the film certain recognizable products of a customer who paid for hidden advertising appear, is used not only in the film company Bazelevs Production, which shot Night Watch. However, Apple is ready to give out its devices to actors for free, but not pay for their appearance in the frame.
54. The total number of all released iPhone models sold by Apple exceeded one billion in 2016.

    

    
    The company has been keeping records of units sold of its iconic smartphone since 2007, when the first model entered the market. And no wonder: the share of all revenues received in the company’s history (more than $200 billion) coming from the iPhone is 70%.
55. The first smartphone with a flexible display was released back in 2013 by the South Korean company LG.

    

    
    In fact, the user did not have the opportunity to bend the LG G Flex at will - the body was rigid, and the bend was created by the manufacturer itself. And although the new product featured another technology of the future, self-healing plastic, it did not gain popularity.
56. Apple released its first iPhone under a brand that was owned by another company at the time.

    

    
    In 2007, the owner of the iPhone brand was the American company Cisco. However, instead of protracted legal wars, as was the case with Nokia or Samsung, the corporations reached an amicable agreement in the hope of future cooperation. Which has not yet been followed up.
57. The concept of a modular smartphone looks very attractive. Until you start using it.

    

    
    In history, there have already been several attempts to create a smartphone whose capabilities could be changed and expanded using external modules. Both LG with its unsuccessful G5 and Google, which did not bring its Project Ara to the commercial stage and dumped it on Motorola, which is currently working on this topic, tried their hand in this area.
58. The security service does not recommend US presidents to use Apple products because it considers them vulnerable to hacking.

    

    
    The previous American president, Barack Obama, refused to use the iPhone precisely in accordance with this recommendation. However, Donald Trump once again demonstrated his character by ignoring the warning and continuing to use his iPhone.
59. There are professional devices designed to hack any iPhone up to the current version, which can be purchased officially.

    

    
    The Israeli company Cellebrite has released a device called the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), which is also used by Russian intelligence services. And even earlier, a similar device called GrayKey was created by the American company GrayShift.
60. The name of the Taiwanese company, known for its inexpensive, high-quality smartphones, was born from several lost letters.

    

    
    Initially, the company's creators planned to call it "Pegasus" after the winged horse from ancient mythology. However, they later decided that the first three letters were superfluous, since “ASUS” would be located at the very beginning of the list of telephone directories.
61. , famous for its “long-lasting” batteries, remains true to tradition in the production of smartphones.

    

    
    The model line of this brand includes such monsters as the Energizer Power Max P16K Pro with a 16,000 mAh battery and weighing 350 grams, as well as its successor, the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop, whose battery capacity has reached 18,000 mAh.
62. New standard allows you to connect devices with a power consumption of up to 100 W to the interface, which greatly increases the charging speed.

    

    
    Such parameters are theoretically quite sufficient even for charging laptop batteries. When compared with standards of previous generations, USB 2.0 is capable of delivering power of only 2.5 W, and the later USB 3.0 is capable of delivering no more than 4.5 W.
63. Contactless data transfer technology was announced in 2004, and ten years ago it was considered unsuccessful and unpromising.

    

    
    The large-scale implementation of NFC technology began just a few years ago, when contactless payment services began to actively develop. And by now, many users already consider smartphones that do not support it to be inferior.
64. It is a scientifically established fact: with the massive spread of NFC technology, its users began to spend more money.

    

    
    This phenomenon is associated with purely psychological reasons, when the so-called derealization of money arises in the human mind. Morally, it is much easier to reduce the “drawn” figure on an electronic account than to part with several real bills, as a result of which a person makes unnecessary purchases.
65. According to the manufacturers, the function looks very attractive and is also very economical. In fact, it is a battery drain.

    

    
    According to the developers, energy consumption when the Always On function is turned on averages 1% of the total battery capacity of the device per hour. Simple arithmetic gives a result of 24% per knock. Are clocks and notifications on an unlocked display worth a quarter, and sometimes even a third, of the device’s battery life?
66. The human eye is unable to discern the quality of video recordings with a resolution greater than FullHD+. But manufacturers still equip their flagships with 4K displays.

    

    
    According to the researchers, a pixel density of 400 ppi is sufficient for the imperfect human eye in any conceivable case. Any higher resolution displays (4K, QHD+) are nothing more than an advertising gimmick and pointlessly increase the cost of a smartphone.
67. Paradoxes and grimaces: due to the manic desire for framelessness, developers were forced to increase the number of moving parts in the smartphone.

    

    
    Instead of leaving the front camera where it should be - on the top indent of the front panel, the designers first came up with a solution that made life difficult for software developers, and then completely moved the lenses to a bracket that extends from the top edge of the body.
68. The most pressure-resistant smartphone is considered Huawei Honor 8, which remained operational when raised to a height of 18.42 km.

    

    
    The achievement, included in the Guinness Book of Records, was registered in Sweden in September 2016. To deliver the device to the specified height, it was attached to a balloon. Most smartphone models stop functioning at much lower altitudes.
69. The creators of the thinnest smartphones tend to cheat to achieve record numbers in their devices.

    

    
    This is not the first time that Chinese-made models have received the title of the world's thinnest smartphone. And each time this happens due to the camera module being moved beyond the surface of the rear panel. Thus, Coolpad Ivvi K1 Mini has a thickness of 4.7 mm at the edges of the body, and 7 mm in the area of ​​the main camera. The previous record holder, Vivo X5 Max, also had a similar design.
70. It makes no sense to use wireless headphones to listen to music in lossless format - the quality will be reduced.

    

    
    To be transmitted via the Bluetooth wireless interface, the audio signal is compressed using one of the codecs. As a result, its quality is reduced to the level of the MP3 format. However, most users won't even notice the difference, especially if they use a smartphone without a dedicated audio chip.
71. Antivirus in a smartphone is an absolutely necessary thing in our day and age. difficult time. But it often happens that malware gets into the firmware at the factory.

    

    
    Every now and then another scandal is revealed when it is discovered that malware was installed at the production stage. The defendants are usually B/C brands from China: , Umi, Cubot, as well as some OEM manufacturers who supply their products for sale under other brands.
72. The first smartphone running the Android operating system was released on September 23, 2008 by the Chinese company HTC.

    

    
    The device, released on the American market together with the mobile operator T-Mobile, was called T-Mobile G1, and was later known as HTC G1 or HTC Dream in different markets. The model was equipped with a physical QWERY keyboard and a 3.2-inch display with a resolution of 320x480 pixels.
73. The world-famous Nexus and Pixel smartphone lines Google with a “pure” Android operating system are produced by third-party manufacturers.

    

    
    Google itself, with all its power, does not have production facilities to produce mobile devices, so at various times it had to collaborate with HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola and the lesser-known FIH Mobile.
74. The “confectionery” names of Android versions follow from year to year in alphabetical order, starting with the letter C (Android 1.5 Cupcake).

    

    
    The OS versions were named Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean ), KitKat (Kit-Kat), Lollipop (Lollipop), Marshmallow (Marshmallow), Nougat (Nougat), Oreo (Oreo), Pie (Pie).
75. Experts have repeatedly considered Android a deliberately failed operating system, devoid of any prospects.

    

    
    Back in 2004, Samsung had the opportunity to buy this OS, but the company decided against it, deeming it to have no potential. A few years later, Google paid an unfortunate $50 million for Android. And even in 2008, when the first smartphone on this platform appeared, many analysts were confident of its failure.
76. The author of the well-known Android logo was Russian designer Irina Blok, who worked at Google, and the source of inspiration was the figures on toilet doors.

    

    
    According to the plan, the logo had to be associated with the name of the operating system and at the same time be as simple and recognizable as possible. The well-known pictograms turned out to be very useful. And the “robot” got its color in honor of the command line on the displays of old computers.
77. Android devices require more RAM than iOS devices due to the nature of the operating system.

    

    
    The Java Virtual Machine used in Android performs a process known as garbage collection when an application is closed, which uses a lot of RAM for processing. If the smartphone doesn’t have enough of it, it starts to slow down. Apple does not use a similar approach, which is why iPhones have much less RAM.
78. Microsoft, which has stopped developing its own mobile operating systems, earns more from Android than Google itself.

    

    
    This situation has arisen due to patent royalties that Google is forced to pay to Microsoft for the use of certain technologies patented by it at various times. To date, the amount of payments has reached about $2 billion. And direct income from distribution Android Google do not get.
79. Android is the operating system with the fastest growing audience. In just 5 years (in 2013), the number of devices on it exceeded a billion.

    

    
    The competitors of the “green robot” were growing at a much more modest pace: as of the same 2013, Apple managed to reach the figure of 700 million devices running iOS in seven years, and Symbian, which, according to Nokia’s statement, was supposed to outlive Android, ceased its operation in the same year existence, having accumulated only 450 million devices in 11 years.

It is no longer possible to imagine our modern life without mobile phones. People are so attached to them that they start every day by picking up the phone and going into social network, checking email and reading news on the smartphone screen, smart devices have become a part of our daily life and have become an integral part of it, we present to your attention fascinating facts about them.

1. Have you used the Nokia 1100 model? The same famous phone with a flashlight. Be proud, this copy is legendary, more than 250 million copies have been sold. It is currently the best-selling device in history.
2. $4,000 cost the first mobile device released in 1983.
3. In 2012 a company with a worldwide reputation and fame Apple sold 340,000 iPhones in one day, approximately 4 per second.
4. Clean your phone often antibacterial napkins, it has been proven that the device has 20 times more germs and bacteria than on the toilet lid.
5. Is your phone leaking water? 90% of mobile devices in Japan have this feature.
6. Insomnia, cloudiness of consciousness, headaches and depression occur with regular use of gadgets. Scientists have proven and even identified new types of fear such as “telephonophobia” - fear of phones.
7. This will sound strange, but there are already developments that can charge a phone using your urine.
8. Martin Cooper was the first person to make a mobile phone call in 1973.
9. The power of modern mobile phones is tens and sometimes hundreds of times greater than the computers that were used in Apollo 11 when landing on the Moon.
10. In the UK, more than 100,000 mobile devices are drowned in toilets every year.
11. 1993 saw the debut of the first touchscreen smartphone at the Wireless World Conference in Florida at the BellSouth Cellular workshop, with an LCD display. It was developed by IBM and named Simon, cost $899 and only 2,000 copies were released into production.
12. In the US, telephone towers and antennas are often camouflaged. Engineers have developed ways to install the equipment on telephone poles, church roofs, and even road signs. Towers are often disguised as plastic trees.
    
13. 70% of all mobile phones are made in China.
14. About 80% of the world's population has a mobile phone.
15. More than 90% of the adult population have their mobile phone at hand at all times.
16. There are 5 times more telephones in the world than personal computers.
17. More than 4 billion people have mobile phones.But only 3.5 billion use a toothbrush.
18. Within 3 minutes of delivery, 90% of text messages are read by third-party services.
    
19. More than 80% of adults in America own a cell phone.
20. The highest bill for calls and phone usage was£142,000 from Selin Aaron. You can easily buy a house for this amount.
    
21. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Sonim XP3300 Force is the most armored phone model. He survived a fall from the 84th floor without any operational damage.
    
22. The new phone industry is the fastest growing and developing industry in the world.
23. The iPhone 5 Black Diamond is the most expensive phone in the world, costing $15 million. It takes nine weeks to make, is crafted from 135 grams of solid gold and is set with 600 rare white diamonds of 24 carats each.
24. 74% of smartphone users use their mobile phone for various purchases, of which 79% end up making a payment.
25. Mobile phone users spend their time mainly on games and social networks (49% and 30% respectively). So don’t shout to your parents that the phone is for calls and studies.
    

Hi all!

Smartphones have gained popularity relatively recently. But the first model was created much earlier, back in the early 90s. Of course, it was significantly different from the multifunctional gadgets we are used to today. Modest amounts of memory, low resolution black-and-white display, high cost even by today’s standards – these are the main features of the first smartphones to see the world.

Stylish and versatile modern analogues have easily replaced our phones, players, watches, alarm clocks, calculators and other everyday devices. Almost everyone can now talk about smartphones, regardless of status, age and preferences. But there are also a number of less known facts and interesting observations that owners of such popular equipment might not even have heard of. Read for yourself.

Interesting and unusual facts about smartphones

Quick facts:

• In 2016, smartphone production worldwide will exceed one billion units.
• The resolution of the first IBM Simon smartphone is only 160x293 pixels with a memory of 1 MB. Its cost in 1994 reached $900.
• The most expensive components of a smartphone are memory and screen.
• Release of the first camera phone took place for the first time in Japan. It was a breakthrough then. Modern models can even act as a DVR for motorists.
• The number of programs downloaded by users annually has long exceeded 20 billion. Back in 2010, this mark barely reached 5 billion.

Useless features:

Over 90% of applications and additional functions that new models are constantly acquiring are not used more than ten times. Users pay attention to them when purchasing, but in practice they need a standard set of functions and several additions, depending on their area of ​​work, study or hobbies. Therefore, conciseness and simplicity are coming back into fashion.

Is size the main thing?

Statistics have demonstrated a clear relationship between the size of mobile devices and the behavior of their owners. For example, users of large gadgets often behave much more relaxed than owners of smartphones with small screens.

However, the reason for this is not at all illusory status or prestige, but the banal posture of a person when operating the device. The large display keeps you open for peace of mind. While the small one makes you involuntarily hunch over. But compact models take up less space and easily fit even in your pocket.

Chasing brands

There is another interesting study that was conducted to establish the relationship between operating systems and the personal characteristics of the owners.

As a result, the expert group found that iOS owners pay special attention to image and attractiveness, spending a significant part of their resources on this. They also spend more time in popular in social networks and related applications.

Android owners pay increased attention to gaming applications. Among them, apps about cooking and television are popular.

BlackBerry owners prefer email and functional programs for work. They are more businesslike and practical.

A telephone is a device for transmitting and receiving sound (mainly human speech) at a distance.

The telephone, patented in the United States in 1876 by Alexander Bell, was called the “talking telegraph.” The Bell tube served in turn for both transmitting and receiving human speech. A. Bell's telephone did not have a ringer; it was later invented by A. Bell's colleague, T. Watson (1878).

The call to the subscriber was made through the handset using a whistle. The range of this line did not exceed 500 meters. For a long time, it was Alexander Bell who was considered the official inventor of the telephone, and only on June 11, 2002, the US Congress, in Resolution No. 269, recognized the right to invent the telephone to Antonio Meucci.

In 1878, Russian electrical engineer P. M. Golubitsky used a capacitor in telephone sets and developed the first Russian telephone of an original design, in which several permanent magnets were used. In 1885, Golubitsky developed a system for centralized power supply of telephone microphones.

In 1877-1878, Thomas Edison proposed using carbon powder instead of a carbon rod in carbon microphones, that is, he invented a carbon microphone with carbon powder, which was widely used almost unchanged until the early 1990s.

The first commercial telephone conversation between New York and London took place on January 7, 1927, over a transatlantic telephone cable.

In 1946, G. Shapiro and I. Zakharchenko proposed organizing a radiotelephone communication system, within which devices for receiving and transmitting voice were to be placed in cars.

In April 1957, Soviet engineer Leonid Ivanovich Kupriyanovich created a prototype of a communication device - the LK-1 radiotelephone. This device had a range of about 30 km and had a significant weight - about 3 kg.

The fear of being without a mobile phone is called nomophobia.

By 1958, Kupriyanovich had reduced the weight of the device to 500. It was a box with toggle switches and a dial for dialing numbers.

In 1961, Kupriyanovich demonstrated a telephone weighing 70 grams, which fit in the palm of your hand and had a range of 80 km.

In 1963, the Altai mobile phone was released in the USSR. The development of the device began in 1958 at the Voronezh Research Institute of Communications. The designers created subscriber stations (phones themselves) and base stations that ensured stable communication between subscribers.

In the early 60s, the Bulgarian engineer Hristo Bachvarov created a model of a portable telephone, for which he received the Dimitrov Prize.

In 1965, based on the developments of L.I. Kupriyanovich, the creator of the very first mobile phone in the world, the Bulgarian company Radioelectronics created a mobile communication kit consisting of a handset-sized mobile phone and a base station with 15 numbers. The device was presented at the Moscow exhibition "Inforga-65".

On April 11, 1972, Pye Telecommunications (Britain) introduced its portable telephone, thanks to which its owner could call any landline number. The 12-channel device consisted of a Pocketphone 70 walkie-talkie and a small box with buttons for dialing numbers.

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, head of Motorola's mobile communications division, unveiled a prototype cell phone called the DynaTAC.

Prototypes of mobile phones in the West began to appear at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 30s and 40s, real developments began to be implemented. In 1933, communications could be made between NYPD vehicles using half-duplex radio transmitters. In 1946, Missouri deployed a mobile network in which private subscribers could communicate with each other using radio equipment through the mediation of an operator.

In 1948, the state of Indiana launched an infrastructure that allowed one subscriber to call another automatically.

In the early 70s, very fierce competition developed in the United States between service and equipment providers in a promising market segment - in the field of cellular communications. The main competitors here were AT&T and Motorola.

Android – Operating system for smartphones, tablets, e-books, digital players, wristwatch, game consoles, netbooks, smartbooks, Google glasses, TVs and other devices. In 2015, support for in-car entertainment systems and household robots appeared. Based on the Linux kernel and Google's own implementation of the Java virtual machine. It was originally developed by Android, Inc., which was later acquired by Google. Subsequently, Google initiated the creation of the Open Handset Alliance, which is now engaged in supporting and further developing the platform.

Andrew “Andy” Rubin is an American programmer, engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and a leading developer of the Android operating system.

The term “cell phone” appeared due to the fact that the coverage areas served by base stations are divided into cells (“cells”). The term was first used in 1977.

In 2011, a Norwegian boy saved himself from a wolf attack by playing heavy metal music on his phone.

Vertu Signature Cobra – $310 thousand.

Functionally, Vertu is inferior to many smartphones, but its body is made of gold and decorated with a cobra of diamonds, rubies and emeralds.

Gresso Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot – $1 million.

The body of the Gresso Luxor Las Vegas phone is made of gold weighing 180 g, decorated with black diamonds weighing a total of 45.5 carats, and the insert on the back panel of the device is made of 200-year-old African ebony, even the buttons are made of 32-carat sapphire single crystals.

GoldVish Le Million – $1.45 million.

This oddly shaped phone is the work of Swiss jeweler and designer Emmanuel Geit. The case is made of 18-karat gold, and is decorated with diamonds, the total weight of which is 120 carats.

Diamond iPhone 6 – $2.5 million.

British jeweler Alexander Amosu created the signature smartphone Amosu Call of Diamond iPhone 6. The smartphone case is cast from 18-karat gold and decorated with a whole scattering of 6,127 real high-grade VVS1 diamonds. At the same time, the Apple logo on the back cover of the device is made of a 51.29-carat diamond.

iPhone 5 Black Diamond – $15 million.

The back cover, weighing 135 grams, is made of 24-karat gold, the display is protected by durable sapphire glass, and on the main button is a rare black diamond weighing 26 carats. It took 600 diamonds to decorate the smartphone, and another 53 for the brand logo. Specifications“Black Diamond” is no different from other iPhone 5 models.

The American Internet-oriented analytical agency Kantar Media published its ranking of companies' advertising expenditures in 2012. According to experts, Samsung's advertising budget in the United States amounted to $401 million versus Apple's $333 million.

HTC invested only $46 million in promoting smartphones in 2012, while in 2011 the company spent $124 million on these purposes. The top five cell phone manufacturers that spent the most money on advertising in the United States included BlackBerry ($35 million) and Nokia ( $13 million).

Sales of Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ in Russia started on April 28. Previously, users complained about the red tint of smartphone displays. Consumer Reports, a non-profit organization that has been advocating for consumers since 1936, has confirmed that displays do indeed produce too much red.

At the beginning of the song "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica, you can hear plucking on the open first, second, third and sixth strings. This compositional solution appeared due to the fact that its author, James Hetfield, when he began to compose the song, was holding the telephone receiver with one hand and talking to his girlfriend.

Smart watch

It all started back in 1972, when the first Digital Watch Pulsar. If, of course, the beginning of this story can be considered the penetration of electronics into wristwatches.

One of the pioneers in this area was Samsung, which made several attempts to create the watch-phone market and now produces smart watches as an addition to smartphones. The company made its first attempt to create a smartwatch in 1999, releasing the Samsung SPH-WP10.

In 2001, at the CES exhibition in Las Vegas, Samsung brought a new gadget with watch and phone functions, looking much more civilized and realistic than the previous version.

Samsung went on sale in 2009, the Samsung S9110 - again a watch-mobile, but with a touch screen. Again the project was unsuccessful.

In 2011, Motorola released the MOTOACTV Android sports watch. They are equipped with a 600 MHz processor, 256 memory, 8/16 GB of internal storage, ANT+, BT 4, WiFi b/g/n/, GPS. This watch is an independent device, which was originally created as an addition to an Android smartphone.

In April 2012, Sony SmartWatch, a continuation of LiveView, went on sale.

In June 2012, simultaneously with Sony Xperia Z Sony introduced the next generation of its smart watches - SmartWatch 2.

It wasn't until 1993 that smartphones appeared. But by modern standards they can hardly be called smartphones. After all, there was nothing special in such smartphones except a calendar, an address book, the ability to read email and a number of other primitive functions. But there was a big screen. Their prices started at $899.

For the first time, people were able to get acquainted with a phone that had two SIM cards when Samsung DuoS came out. Then business people were very happy about this, because now they did not have to constantly carry two mobile devices with them.

In Manhattan at 33 Thomas Street there is a skyscraper 167.5 meters high without a single window. This brutalist-style high-rise is an automatic telephone exchange, two of which are owned by AT&T and another by Verizon.

Previously, SMS messages were limited to 160 characters. Why exactly 160 characters? The creator of SMS is Friedhelm Hilbrand. He thought long enough about what kind of restriction to introduce. And later I decided that 160 characters is two lines, enough to send notes to someone. In 1986, Friedhelm's decision was supported by all well-known operators, and the restriction became official. Today there are no such restrictions.

When the Siemens S10 came out in 1997, many people were willing to pay top dollar for a mobile device with a color display.

Samsung V200 is the first phone with a built-in camera. It started selling in 2003 and immediately became popular.

The cost of a cell phone in 1984 was over $4,000. Therefore, if suddenly people met a person talking on a mobile device, he was immediately considered rich. And in most cases they were absolutely right.

Nokia is developing a way to use radio waves so that the phone can be charged while it is in standby mode.

Mother's Day is the busiest for phone calls, and Father's Day is the busiest for receiving calls.

London's famous red telephone boxes are being used less and less by passers-by. One project to make them functional again is called Solarbox. The booth is painted in green color, and a solar panel is installed on the roof, and thanks to the energy it generates, anyone can recharge their mobile device. The maintenance of such booths pays off due to the advertising displayed inside them.

The fax came before the telephone. The prototype of the fax machine was invented back in 1843, and in 1865 the commercial use of the device of the Italian Giovanni Caselli began on lines in France and between Moscow and St. Petersburg. In this device, called a pantelegraph, the image for transmission had to be applied to lead foil with a special insulating varnish. However, this technology was not successful and gave way to other methods of communication. The massive development of fax communications became possible in the 20th century thanks to the emergence of more accessible channels - first telegraph, and then telephone and radio.

For ultra-Orthodox Jews, phones have been developed where access to erotic services is blocked, and you cannot write SMS or access the Internet. Calling on Saturday - a sacred day when you cannot work - is possible only at an extremely expensive rate. And for Muslims there are phones that show the direction to Mecca, which helps to perform prayers in correct position.

The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Bell, suggested using the word “Ahoy” from the vocabulary of German sailors as a telephone greeting. Later, Thomas Edison proposed the more traditional “Hullo” (a variation of “Hello”), which penetrated into the Russian language, changing to “Hello!”

Mobile phone?

At first, you don’t see much benefit from it, but in order not to seem completely antediluvian, you start using the simplest model with the usual basic package of functions. At first, you are sometimes surprised by those who speak too loudly in a restaurant, on a train, or on a café terrace. But this really turns out to be very convenient - because you can always keep your family and friends within earshot.

And now, like everyone else, you have already learned how to write text messages by typing them on a tiny keyboard, and now you send them every now and then from everywhere. Like everyone else, you abandoned your planner, replacing it with an electronic version. Once you've mastered the apps, you've entered the phone numbers of your friends, your family, and your lover into the directory. There you also camouflaged the names of your exes, as well as the credit card PIN code, which you constantly forget.
You now use your mobile phone even to take photographs, albeit not of very good quality. It's so cool to always have a funny picture with you to show your colleagues.
Everyone around is doing the same thing. The mobile phone has become a thing of the era, blurring the lines between personal, professional and social life. After all, in everyday reality, everything has become so urgent, so fluid, and this requires constant juggling of your plans and schedules.

And recently you replaced your old device with a more advanced model: a little miracle that allows you not only to access your mail, but also to browse Internet sites and download hundreds of necessary applications.
And that's how you became connected. The mobile phone has become like an extension of you, accompanying you even in the bathroom or toilet. You rarely go at least half an hour without glancing at the screen, checking missed calls, or responding to an intimate or friendly message. And if your mailbox is empty, you still press buttons to make sure mail isn't on hold.
The phone protects you the way a blanket protected you in childhood: its screen is so soft, so calming, like a sleeping pill. It gives you confidence in any situation, gives you the ability to instantly establish the right contact, which opens up a lot of opportunities for you...

But one evening, returning home, after searching all your pockets and bags, you suddenly realize that your mobile phone has disappeared. Lost? Stolen? No, you refuse to believe it. You check everything again, but to no avail, and then you begin to convince yourself that you simply forgot your mobile phone in the office, but... No, you remember very well that you used it in the elevator, having already left work, and - probably - in the subway too, and on the bus.
Crap!
At first you are angry about losing your phone, and then you praise yourself: after all, you are insured against “theft/loss/breakage,” which means that tomorrow you can get a new high-tech toy.
However, at three o’clock in the morning you realize that you still couldn’t fall asleep...

GUILLAUME MUSSEAU
ANGEL'S CALL

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The most interesting facts about phones (history, facts and a lot of interesting things) updated: December 17, 2017 by: website