Fact: Mobile Phones

Anda pengguna telefon bimbit a.k.a handphone a.k.a cellphone a.k.a henpon a.k.a henset? Meh menimba ilmu sikit.

1. 1956, first fully automatic mobile phone system, was developed by Ericsson.
2. 1960, the first partly automatic car phone system.
3. 1964, Motorola launched first car phone.
4. April 3, 1973; the first mobile phone call from Sixth Avenue to Alliance Capital Building, New York.
5. 1973, the first handheld phone, Motorola DynaTac 8000X, more than a foot long, weighed nearly 2 pounds, and sold for USD 3,995. Its equivalent to USD 19,300 today!
6. 1992, the first smartphone launched. It's called Simon.
7. 2009, there are 1.2 billion mobile phones worldwide were sold.
8. January - March 2010, 314.7 million phones were sold, 54.3 million were smartphones, 19% of all phones sold now are smartphones.
9. 2010, mobile subscribers surpassed 5 billion.
10. Over 70% of the world's population now have a mobile phone.
11. 85% of children own a phone while only 73% own books at home.
12. In the US, 9 out of 10 of every man, woman and child have a phone.
13. Total number of iPhones sold so far (from the launching date January 9, 2007) 59,634,000.
14. In the first three days of selling the iPhone 4 it sold 1.7 million units.
15. By the end of 2010, 53% of companies will have deployed iPhones.
16. In July 2008, Apple launched the Appstore. It launched with 500 apps, by June 2010, 225,000+ Apps were available. Over 3,000,000,000 Apps have been downloaded to date.
17. In October 2008, Google launched Android. Android is now the number 4 smartphones behind iPhone, and growing 886% year on year.
18. 160,000 new Android smartphones are being activated each day.
19. There are now 60 Android powered-devices available in 49 countries.
20. 2010, we will see 3 times more companies deploy Android.
21. 2009, USD 4.2 billion was spent on apps.
22. 2013, an estimated USD 29.5 billion will be spent on apps.
23. In the first three months of 2010, 1.475 trillion messages were sent worldwide.
24. By the end of 2010, 6.5 trillion messages will have been sent.
25. On the day Obama was elected, 1.2 billion SMS messages were sent in the US between 4 pm and 9 pm PST.
26. In the next five years, more people will connect to the internet via a mobile vs a PC.

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