12 SCREENISH FACTS ABOUT MOBILE PHONES!
FACTS ABOUT MOBILE PHONES 1. How many people have mobile phones? As of 2022, it is believed that over 7.2 billion people across the world use mobile phones! Approximately 6.6 billion of those people have smartphones. So, the days of typing the same key four times to get one letter have not quite surpassed us yet! 2. The first mobile phone call was longer ago than you think. We have Motorola to thank for some of the most popular phones in the 2000s, but also the first mobile phone call ever! The call was made by a Motorola employee, engineer Martin Cooper. He made the call on Sixth Avenue in New York on April 3, 1973. 3. I just called to say… The topic of that ever-so-famous first phone call was winning and losing! That is to say that Martin Cooper actually called a professional rival, Joel Engel, to inform him that Motorola had beat AT&T by creating the first functional mobile phone. Now, that can’t have been a fun call to receive! 4. Write, don’t call! Be...