Some Interesting facts about Cell Phones

• Can you imagine how much text messages through mobile phones do Koreans teens do? They are the No. 1, they send more than 200,000 text messages in a year.
• Do you know that there are 3.3 billion of active mobiles in the world? The number is equal to the half of the entire world population.
• The first mobile phone device was invented by Motorola and the device was named as DynaTAC 8000X.
• Do you know two-thirds of the mobile phones users are using the backlight of their phone as a flash light? It was confirmed after the survey taken by the sprint. Well, nice use of a mobile phone.
• If you have a Nokia mobile set and you are going out of battery and also you are expecting a very important call. Do not worry, simply by dialing the code *3370# , the battery of your Nokia set will upgrade up to 50% by using a built-in reserve battery. This is very helpful in the situation when mobile battery is about to finish and you do not have any other means to charge your set.
• The first text message was sent in 1992.
• Text messages contribute to 20% of operator revenues.
• On New Years Day 2004, the highest recorded daily total was reached with 111 million text messages sent.
• Manufacturing a mobile phone uses as much energy as 39.79 gallons of petrol.
• The 1.019 billion phones produced in 2006 create approximately 60 million metric tons of CO2 emissions
• Producing 18 million phones consumes enough energy to power 34,200 homes with electricty for a year.
• According to Ericsson, one new GSM subscription (2006) contributes about 24kg of CO2 per year on average, which is comparable to driving an average gasoline--powered car for a little more than one hour on a motorway.