Facts About Smartphones:

IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third-party apps in 1994.

It costs less than $1 a year to keep your smartphone charged up.

According to top addiction experts, “Giving your child a smartphone is like giving them a gram of cocaine”.

On a by weight basis, there is more gold in a smartphone than there is in gold ore. It takes a ton of ore to get 1g of gold. But you can get the same amount from recycling the materials in 41 mobile phones. 

In late 2008 many critics thought Android would fail miserably whereas, as of Feb 2015, Android holds about 85% of the total smartphone OS market share.

Smartphones are capable of receiving FM radio signals, but phone/wireless companies deny that consumer demand is strong enough to justify activating it.

An obscure Chinese company has become the top smartphone seller in Africa, largely because they adjusted their phones to work with darker skin tones.

Dockers recently increased the size of their coin pockets to accommodate the growing size of smartphones.

The iconic Nokia 3310s battery capacity is 3 – 4 times less than an average smartphone today.

Nikola Tesla predicted the modern smartphone in 1926.

Our smartphones are millions of times more powerful than all of NASA’s combined computing in 1969.

Google has a new concept of open hardware platform to create a first modular smartphone. The idea is why buy a phone for its camera when you can buy a camera for your phone.

The study says, 65% of smartphone users download zero apps a month.

All of the critical smartphone technology including the battery, the touchscreen, and the multi-core processor is a direct result of government research funding. Without this funding, smartphones would’ve been far more expensive, and taken much longer to develop.

Apple suggests 32° Fahrenheit as the lowest operating ambient temperature for the iPhone because a cold smartphone battery can drain faster than normal or it might say it has ample power remaining and then suddenly go dead.

“Smartphone Zombie” name is given to pedestrians who walk slowly and without attention to their surroundings because they are focused on their smartphone.

Inactive discovery mode, your smartphone broadcasts the AP names to which your device has previously been connected. This draws the Wi-Fi fingerprint that can identify you and (together with the fingerprints of others) your social relationships too.

Smartphone thumb skills are altering our brains.

Florida accidentally banned smartphones and computers in an attempt to ban gambling internet cafes.

On January 9th, 2007 when Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone model; Google’s Android team, which had been secretly working on a smartphone for two years, were forced to start all over again. 

IP Code is a rating system that helps understand if a smartphone is waterproof.

African-Americans own smartphones at a rate that is 22% higher than the national average. 

A city in Germany installed traffic lights at ground level to prevent smartphone users causing accidents out of distraction.

If you stand your smartphone in an empty pint glass it acts like an instant loudspeaker.

The average smartphone user checks his or her phone 35 times a day.

The manufacturer’s margin on a new smartphone is 2x *LESS* than the margin on a refurbished one.