It's no secret that smart phones are a huge part of all our lives nowadays. We use them to communicate with our loved ones, manage our daily schedule, get updates from around the world, and, of course, to keep us entertained.
Most of us are prune to using the basic apps from inbuilt or installed from third parties. These keep us away from discovering all the possibilities of our smart phones. In fact, smart phones are now a necessary evil that no owner can avoid.
In this article I will discuss some shocking facts that we have failed to discover about our phones, here are 10 smart phone facts that you probably didn't know. Some are really weird, others hard to believe, but we bet you'll be sharing them with your friends over social media. Let them get surprised too!!!
10. Mobile phones are dirtier than toilet.
Your smartphone goes just about everywhere with you which means that it picks up a whole load of germs along the way. A used smartphone carries around 18 times more ‘potentially harmful’ types of bacteria than a toilet seat. So, remember to clean your mobile phone regularly and safely!
What is more surprising with this fact is we normally don’t care how we hold or clean our phones daily or hourly.
09. The first mobile phone cost about £2500 (About 10,000,000ugx)
If you think that mobile phones are a 21st Century gadget or a ‘dot com’ device, then you are really wrong. In fact, the first mobile device was sold in the US back in 1983, about 39 years ago. It was developed by a man named Martin Cooper. Despite the phones’ capabilities the Motorola mobile phone was way much too expensive than the current smart phones we are holding. This fact means a lot in the telecom industry as many multi-billion companies like MTN, ZAIN, DIGICEL, AFRICEL etc. had to emerge. Basing on the capabilities of an average smart phone nowadays costing about $40(UGX145,000), the first mobile phone by Martin Cooper would cost 15 times less.
08. Your mobile phone is more powerful than a spaceship
Never underestimate the power locked inside your modern-day smartphone. It’s incredible. The average phone now has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing, according to info from NASA. The modern smart phones we hold is capable of transmitting geocentric information from across the world. We can even not just communicate with friends but even store thousands of millions of words in just a small memory unlike the Apollo 11 smart device that was used in Moon landing that could store 2048 words.
07. Back in 2012, Apple sold 340,000 iPhones per day
You already know that iPhone is super popular, but did you know this little fact? Back in 2012, the iPhone company sales were at a serious high. Apple sold around 340,000 smartphones per day which is about 125 million phones in that year.
Comparably iPhone sales have failed to make such a number of sales in the recent years probably because of the improved capabilities and the increased prices in the different models.
06. Scientists can charge phones using urine
It might sound a little gross, but it’s true! Scientists down in Bristol have developed a way of charging phones using urine, according to the BBC. Researchers believe that the future of charging could involve using ‘smart toilets’ to gain and store energy. This is a little complex to understand the mode of operation of the way how the phones will charge. In the nearby years we may just end up using our urine for charging without knowing how urinal power is converted to Charging power.
05. A huge 99% of malware is targeted at Android phones
Your smart phone knows you more than you know yourself! Our phones collect and store any kind of secrets we do in our phones. Using cache data extracted from websites and apps that we use every minute, the phone using the inbuilt artificial analyzers is able to predict our behavior, likes and dislikes. That’s why we are able to receive adverts (ads) based on our likes, location or even based on things that we commonly od on line.
There’s good news for iPhone users! If you’re worried about malware, here’s a fact that you need to know. A huge 99% of malware targets Android phones and device operating systems, according to details from F-Secure.
04. The fear of being without your phone is real
Ever feared being phone-less or losing network for a period of time? You are not alone. This phenomenon actually has a name –nomophobia. The term is a combination of the phrase ‘no mobile phobia’
Nomophobia is a modern phobia. In other words, it is most likely stems from increased reliance on technology and concern over what might happen if you suddenly couldn’t access needed information. Don’t believe it, check out the meaning of Nomophobia from your dictionary. An average human being is addicted to his Phone without knowing, READ MORE HERE
03. More people have mobiles than toilets globally
Mobile phones are essential but are they more essential than, say, a toilet? There are more people in the world that have a mobile phone than have a toilet. Let that sink in. While awesome tech is obviously important, it shouldn’t’come before world sanitation. Literally that's because a family of five (5) owning five (5) phones share just 1 toilet.
02. Nearly half of smartphone users can’t leave without their phones.
Could you go a day without your phone? How about a lifetime? A massive 46% of smartphone users say that they couldn’t’live without their device, according to Pew Research. That’s almost half of the world’s users according to the statistics. From this statistic we can derive that our smart phones are more essential than many other social and basic needs. Let’s imagine it this way, there are nearly 15% of the users who own smart phones and can even buy internet bundles daily yet they nearly fail to buy food or survive on nearly a dollar per day.
01. We check our mobiles around 110 times a day
How often do you check your smartphone in just 1 hour? Figures from a screen lock app with over 10million users show that the average person unlocks their phone around 110 times each day. This unlocking time happens between 5pm and 8pm at its peak. How should this kind of information be trusted? A screen lock is a special feature in all smart phones that allows users to protect their phones from any unregisterd acces. Each time the screen is unlocked, the information containing the time to unlocked is sent to the database and stored in your cache data. A combination of this data on daily basis is then studied. Try out our ‘AfriStatista’ Statistics App that basically provides live statistics on topics across the world basing on the number of voters. Its available for public downloads in the link here.