9 facts about mobile
1. The first mobile phone
The world's first mobile phone call from an employee of Motorola, Martin Cooper, in 1973, standing on a street in New York. He called his chief rival Joel Engel of the company's AT & T, which at that time was the largest company in the world. Later, in a BBC interview, Martin said: "I called him and said, I'm talking on a cell phone, this portable telephone, which hold in my hand. He did not answer, and I think I heard him grinding his teeth."
This phone was a prototype of the Motorola DynaTAC, who 10 years later became the first mobile phone that you could buy in the store. It cost $ 3995, which adjusted for inflation with today's $ 9000. According to this phone said Gordon Gekko in the movie "Wall Street".
2. The first smartphone
The world's first smartphone show in 1993 at a conference Wireless World Conference in Florida. Telefonchik weighed "a little more than the pound" (ie, almost a pound) and was a hybrid PDA and phone with LCD-touchscreen display. Phone, designed by IBM and running BellSouth Cellular, was named Simon.
In a press release stating that the new product is a cell phone, but not limited to voice communication, but also can act as a pager, a reader e-mail, calendar, interactive calendar, address book, calculator and a simple screen for sketching - and all this for only $ 899.
A total of 2000 produced such phones, and now it is valuable to collectors.
3. Where did the restriction to 160 characters in smsok
By the end of the twentieth century, many telecommunications companies have been developing technology to send short messages, but you can call a person who is considered the creator of the CMC. This Friedhelm Hilbrand, who came to the voice of the concept of sending a 128-bit message to an existing wireless network. For obvious reasons, the message could not be very long, but it is the number 160 appeared by chance. In 1985 he tried to pick the perfect Hilbrand length of messages, taking notes on his typewriter. When he saw the number of letters, numbers, spaces and punctuation marks on a page, it appears that an average of one article fit in 2 lines and generally consisted of 160 characters.
In the end he decided that the 160-character limit will be sufficient. Using the argument that the cards and telegraph messages is rarely more than 150 characters, he offered his standard to the GSM group, and in 1986 the standard was adopted. Later, he was supported by all mobile phone manufacturers and mobile operators.
Now the baton picked up Twitter - the message is limited to 140 characters plus 20 characters left for a user name.
4. Random calls "pocket"
Surely you accidentally called your friends when you do not lock your phone in your pocket or purse, especially if your name begins with A. This "pocket calls" basically harmless, unless of course your phone calls do not accidentally Avstaliyu.
However, a major problem facing emergency services. In the early 2000s according to National Emergency Number Association 70% of calls to 911 were random. In the UK (the emergency number 999) the number of calls reached 11,000 per day.
Where so much? In the old American models of phones call 911 was accomplished even with the "locked" key if held down for a long time figure 9 or 2 digits.
Now phone manufacturers have disabled this feature, but occasional pocket calls have not stopped. In the past year, thanks to the police sluchanomu call from his pocket two were caught avtougonschika and a serial killer.
5. The most expensive phone in the world
British jeweler Stuart Hughes claims that he created the world's most expensive mobile phone. His iPhone 4 "Diamond Rose" can be bought for 5 million pounds or approximately 230 million rubles.
For the money it offers 500 flawless diamonds totaling over 100 carats, nadkusannoe apple rose gold with 53 diamonds and a 7.4-carat pink diamond on the site click Home.
At present the phone is attached a spare 8-carat diamond, which can be put in place rose.
6. Fake Plastic Trees
Given the international coverage of cellular networks, towers are everywhere. As a rule, they are under something concealed. In the cities they are hidden in billboards, in hours, in the gutter, telephone poles, weathervanes, and even the roofs of churches.
The easiest way to see the tower, "hidden" in artificial trees. There are whole communities of people who collect pictures of these towers, such as a group in Flickr "fake plastic trees". Photographer Robert Voigt brought an entire exhibition devoted to this phenomenon.
7. Telefonofobiya and other mental disorders
In regards to mobile phones do not always go smoothly. New technology has brought with it new diseases. Experts identify four diseases associated with the era of mobile devices. Perhaps for these terms have already appeared Russian counterparts, but I do not yet know if you know - write in comments.
Telephonobia - fear to make or receive phone calls.
Nomophobia - fear of being left without a mobile phone - or lose your phone to be out of reach the network.
Ringxiety - a "psycho-acoustic phenomenon" when you hear or feel the phone calls, which are actually not.
Frigensophobia - fear that mobile phone radiation can damage the brain.
8. The invention of voice mail
In 1986, a 26-year-old researcher from the University of Massachusetstkogo Scott Jones eating pizza invented the modern system of mobile voice mail.
Now we accept the existence of a voice mail for granted or something superfluous and unnecessary, but in the late 80s it was a breakthrough. Here's how to tell about the benefits of voice mail in the articles of the time:
"Suppose the manager wants to have time to talk to Gray and his associate Smith, who is currently out of town until tomorrow morning meeting. Gray leaves a message in the" voice mailbox "Smith. Smith calls back and realizes that he can not answer the question of Gray, then he Gray leaves a message and forwards the question to his subordinate Brown. Brown returned from lunch, listens to the message and starts to work. At 10 pm, he finds a solution, leaves a voice message to Gray and goes home. The next morning, Gray calls to your office number and listens to the message Brown. Not a drop wasted time and energy. "
9. Mobile bestsellers
If everyone decided public relations, one would assume that the best selling phone of all time - it's iPhone. Apple, of course, in the top five, because iPhones have sold 100 million units. However, this is not a winner.
The most popular phone of all time is the Nokia 1100, a simple GSM-phone, released in 2003. 1100th has sold over 250 million. In addition, the five most popular phones include Nokia 3210 and 3310, and closes her Motorola RAZR.
In 2009, Nokia 1100 created a sensation when it was rumored that she is able to intercept information from other phones. Resale price reaches up to 32000 $. However, the rumor turned out to be a newspaper canard.
