The most interesting questions about smartphones. Fun facts about phones. A country without mobile communications

Smartphones have firmly entered our life, and now every now and then fall into different stories... Here are five interesting facts about these electronic gadgets.

1. Scientists from the Harvard Business School (HBS) found a relationship between the size of a mobile device, a person's posture and their behavior. Briefly summarizing their findings, we can say that the owners of large gadgets behave more confidently than the owners of devices with small screens. The main reason for this is in posture. Small smartphone causes the body to involuntarily hunch and contract. But using a gadget with a large display allows you to be in an open position, which gives you confidence. You can also hide from the wind, or, in which case, use your smartphone as a paddle or shovel.

2. A smartphone is a very intimate thing for the owner. Therefore, it should not be surprising that even during sex, people do not let go of it. Every tenth smartphone owner checks for updates while making love. A study on this topic was conducted recently in the United States, most likely, in Russia, the situation is about the same.

3. Smartphones are usually blamed for provoking various diseases. For example, it is argued that long conversations on a cell phone can lead to partial hearing loss, because the user constantly turns up the volume against the background of the surrounding street noise. A dirty case provokes skin problems. This is facilitated by the fact that the part of the face that the device touches often sweats during a conversation. Long conversations in uncomfortable positions lead to neck and back pain.

But the most interesting "disease" from a smartphone was invented in South Korea. Local scientists have suggested that the fascination with mobile devices and entertainment gadgets provokes the emergence of "digital dementia", which manifests itself, in particular, as an inability to concentrate.

4. Despite the particular popularity of replacement panels for smartphones these days, in fact, the fashion for multi-colored cell phone covers began back in 1998. It was then that the Nokia 5110 appeared, for which it was possible to purchase various panels. Today, every major brand has a “chameleon smartphone” in the lineup, but only one manufacturer (Highscreen) puts several replacement panels in the kit, the rest offer to purchase them for an additional fee.

Highscreen Omega Prime XL is sold with three caps in a set - black, white and lemon yellow. You can change the image instantly and completely free. And this is not the only advantage of the device - the Highscreen Omega Prime XL is equipped with an excellent 5.3-inch display, a powerful quad-core processor and also supports two SIM-cards. Also in early August, a smaller version of the smartphone with a 4.7-inch display appeared on sale.

5. The American company TalkTalk Mobile has conducted an unusual study in order to create a psychological portrait of smartphone owners on different operating systems- iOS, Android and BlackBerry. The conclusions are as follows: the owners of iPhones pay great attention to their image and spend a lot of money on it. They consider themselves more attractive than other pipe owners. They travel a lot and communicate on social networks.

BlackBerry smartphone owners are more business-like - they communicate a lot on e-mail and earn $ 4,000 more per year than other smartphone owners. They are also distinguished by the ability to build long-term relationships.

People with Android smartphones, on average, have better manners and cook better. They also watch TV more often than others and drink more alcohol - as measured by the volume of alcohol consumed per week.

V the last days on many domestic news sites the sad headline "Russia is on the 50th place in the speed of mobile Internet" flashes. Behind it is usually a free retelling of the text from kommersant.ru:

OpenSignal: Russia takes 50th place in the rating of the speed of the mobile Internet

British company OpenSignal has published a study on the state of mobile communications around the world. Analysts have compiled a rating of the countries with the fastest mobile Internet in 3G and 4G networks. South Korea tops the list, followed by Singapore, Hungary, Australia and Denmark. Russia took 50th place after Kuwait. The last two lines of the rating are occupied by Costa Rica and Afghanistan.

This text knocks down the ardor of patriotic feelings a little. But if you look at the results of the study on a map, you can see that Russia is ahead of almost all of Africa, Latin America and most Asian countries in terms of this indicator. And it lags behind the United States only slightly. Data visualization is an ingenious invention against wordplay.

This article will show three maps from the above-mentioned Open Signal report and 7 more with the results of other interesting international studies (2014-2016) on the topic of mobile technologies.

1. Average internet speed 2016

In South Korea, it is 41.3 Mb / s, in Canada - 18.3 Mb / s, in the UK - 13.7 Mb / s, in the USA - 12.31 Mb / s, and in Russia - 8.3 Mb / s.

2. The proportion of the time of connection to 3G / 4G of the total time of connection to the mobile Internet

Residents of Russia - 73.11%, South Korea - 98.54%, USA - 91.69%, UAE - 85.85%, Afghanistan - 79.42%, and for Ukrainians - 44.81%.

3. The share of Wi-Fi use time from the total time of Internet use on a mobile device

In Holland - 70.05%, in Denmark - 56.15%, in Italy - 49.10%, in Russia - 42.18%, in Iran - 36.88%, and in Ethiopia - 15.55%.

4. Most Popular Smartphone Brands

And this map shows which smartphone manufacturer is most famous in different countries... If you look through the gallery, you can see how much the world has changed since 2010, when the first association with the word smartphone was the word Nokia for most people. Today, it occurs only among residents of Mozambique and some neighboring states.

5. Index of availability of mobile Internet

GSMA Intelligence has been measuring the Mobile Connectivity Index for several years now. The value of this indicator depends on four criteria - the size of the 3G / 4G coverage area, the availability of prices for mobile devices in relation to the income of the population, the level of computer literacy of residents and the amount of content in their language. you can find out all the details of the calculation.

Canada has the value of this index - 81.1, the USA - 82.6, and South Korea - 80.7. And in Ukraine - 55.5, in Mongolia - 52.5, in Sudan and Ethiopia - about 25. Russia is relatively close to the leading countries - 66.3

6. 4G coverage

As you can see, LTE has taken over the world. But there are still quite a few Green Spots (3G), and some poor African countries live without mobile Internet (turtle GPRS does not count). Areas where LTE does not exist, but in countries where they are located, are indicated in pale red. For example, in Greenland, only the outskirts of the city of Nuuk (the capital) are marked in red. Russia is painted solid, which is not entirely correct.

7. GSM bands

The most curious detail on this map is the painted in green Japan and South Korea. In these countries, every subscriber has access to 3G. And 2G networks are no longer active. If your phone doesn't have a 3G module, then it won't catch the Japanese network. For owners of outdated mobile phones, there is a phone rental at the airports.

When traveling to other countries, you can safely use any device. Even Siemens A55 (2002) supports three frequency ranges. But the 1996 Motorola StarTAC only works in GSM 900.

8. The love of fun among iOS users

And on this map, the results of a study of the popularity of entertainment applications by iOS users in different countries are plotted. As you can see, our people are even more inclined to have fun than the Americans. And in China, India and Saudi Arabia life is completely sad.

The researchers consider the applications from the categories Entertainment, Food and Drink, Games, Music, Sports, Travel "fun", and "serious" - "Business", "Education", "Finance" , "Productivity", "References" and "Utilities".

9. Popular mobile messengers

In Russia, the most popular messenger is WhatsApp (as in most countries), in Belarus and Ukraine - Viber, and in our friendly Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan - Telegram. It's amazing how uniform the colors of the South American countries are.

The brightest point on the map is South Korea, where CocoaTalk is used by 93% of the country's population, as it is developed by a local company.

Versatile and fashionable modern smartphones could easily replace our players, phones, watches, calculators, alarm clocks and other everyday devices. Now almost everyone can tell about these devices, regardless of age, cultural and taste characteristics. But there are also facts about smartphones that are less known in our world and about which device owners may hear for the first time.

1. More than a billion smartphones were released in 2016, and in the first half of 2017, more than 647 million units were produced.

2. The most expensive elements of a smartphone are the screen and memory.

3. Every 10th smartphone user, even while making love, does not let go of this device.

4. In South Korea, a smartphone “disease” was invented - digital dementia. It has been proven that if you get carried away with using a smartphone, then a person loses the ability to concentrate.

5. More than 20 billion apps are downloaded to smartphones every year.

6.Today there are more smartphones than toilets in India.

7. The Finns have created a new sport - smartphone throwing. This is due to the fact that they are tired of struggling with addiction to modern gadgets.

8. Japanese people use a smartphone even while taking a shower.

10. At the heart of every smartphone is an operating system.

11.People when buying a smartphone today pay more attention not to hardware, but to software devices.

12. The term “smartphone” was coined by Ericsson Corporation in 2000 to refer to Ericsson's own new phone, the R380s.

13. The price of the first smartphone was about $ 900.

14. Literally "smartphone" is translated as "smart phone".

15) A smartphone has much more processing power than a computer that takes astronauts to the moon.

16. Nomophobia is the fear of being left without a smartphone.

17. More than 250 thousand patents are based on smartphone technology.

18. Approximately 110 times daily, the average person looks at their smartphone.

19.Most smartphones in Japan are waterproof.

20. About 65% of smartphone users do not download applications on it.

21. Approximately 47% of Americans have not been able to live a day without using a smartphone.

22 the first smartphone was a commercial touch device, which can be controlled both with the stylus and with the ordinary touch of your fingers.

23. Modern smartphones are "power hungry" devices.

24.The very first thin smartphone is considered to be a gadget made in Korea. Its thickness was only 6.9 millimeters.

25. The weight of the world's first smartphone was only 400 grams.

26. A disorder in which a person is afraid to answer calls on a smartphone is called telephonophobia.

27. There are only 2 types of the most expensive smartphones in the world. This is a Vertu gadget and a customized iPhone.

28. About 1,140 calls per year are made from a smartphone.

29. The world's first smartphone was launched 20 years after the first mobile phone appeared.

30 In rural India, 100 million people have a smartphone.

31. About 64% of young people choose a smartphone for themselves on the principle "the same as my friend's."

32.Brazil has seen strong growth in smartphone sales over the year. Sales growth is about 120%.

33. Approximately 83% of young people use a smartphone as a camera.

34. About 18 thousand messages are sent every year by a teenager in the UK.

35. Every 3rd smartphone holder consult with friends before buying it.

Fact 1. Did you know that the first smartphone (not a phone, but a smartphone) appeared in 1994? It was a device with a black-and-white display, rather heavy, with a tiny screen resolution, which did not have even a third of the functions it performs now. And at the same time it cost $ 900! Now for that kind of money, you can buy the latest model of some flagship.

Fact 2. Did you know that, on average, every six minutes a person glances at the screen of their gadget? We can no longer imagine our life without this, they say that every tenth owner of a smartphone does not part with it, even while lying in bed with a loved one. Maybe they are corresponding with each other at this time, what do you think?

Fact 3... Did you know that most of the apps installed on our smartphones are useless? Every tenth application is sent to the trash immediately after installation, but those that remain either do not open at all, or open once or twice a month, although it seems to us that we cannot do without all this.

Fact 4. Making calls is the most unpopular feature in a modern smartphone. Most often, the owners of these gadgets use the function of photographing, in second place is Internet surfing, then there is communication in social networks, listening to music and watching videos, sending messages, and in the most last- phone calls.

Fact 5. Did you know that a smartphone can be a source of illness? Firstly, a huge amount of harmful bacteria accumulates on its surface. Secondly, constant focus on the screen can impair vision, and loud conversations in conditions of constant external noise can lead to hearing impairment. In addition, some scientists claim the emergence of the so-called "information dementia", one of the manifestations of which may be pathological absent-mindedness.

The question of who invented the telephone today does not make anyone think for a long time. "Of course, Alexander Bell!" - almost any of us will say and ... will be mistaken. Five years before Bell, a device with an absolutely similar operating principle was invented by Antonio Meucci. But he did not agree to pay $ 10 for the registration of the patent - maybe because of stinginess, or maybe because he did not fully believe in his invention. As a result, Bell got all the laurels of the "father" of telephony.

Bell’s phone didn’t ring at first, but whistled.

Bell himself was an amazing person. He deeply believed in God and created his invention, among other things, in order to communicate with people who had already gone into another world. And I sincerely believed that it was possible. The inventor himself could not appreciate the charm of the device that is associated with his name: both he and his wife were completely deaf.

Bell's second idea, apart from actually inventing the telephone, was a fiasco. It was necessary to come up with the first word that a person would say when answering a call. Bell proposed a variant of the "Ahoy" that greets each other in the German navy. But the word did not catch on, but the more sonorous version of Edison - "Hello!" - everyone liked it. In some Slavic languages, including ours, it was transformed into "Hello!"

On average, each of us uses our phone more than 1,100 times a year.

The first of the statesmen to actively use the telephone was Herbert Hoover. He installed it in his personal account in 1929.

The record for the fastest SMS belongs to the citizen of Singapore, An Yan. He typed a message of 160 characters in just over 40 seconds.

The year of birth of the first SMS message was 1992, the birthplace is Britain. The text of the SMS was typed on a computer and sent from it to a cell phone.

Environmentalists urge mobile phone users not to throw them away, but to recycle them. So far, the calls are of little use: the number of "sotik" lying in landfills around the world, every year, arrives at 40 tons.

The role of the first telephones was played by people with loud voices. In the 4th century BC, they were hired by the Persian king Cyrus. Such messengers occupied the highest parts of the terrain: the tops of the hills and the tops of the outpost fortifications. When it was necessary to convey news from one end to another, they did it in a chain, shouting it out. Whether the principle of the "damaged telephone" known to us today worked, history is silent.

The first interplanetary call was recorded in 1969, when President Nixon contacted American astronauts on the moon. True, this fact can be considered historically reliable only if the Americans really flew to the moon ...

The first person to "test" a mobile phone on the street was a Motorola employee, Martin Cooper. And he acted in a very American way: he called not his wife or his friend, but a rival firm AT & T. Joel Angel, who answered the call, remained enviously silent throughout the conversation. And Martin sang like a nightingale, telling how great it is to call on a portable telephone that you hold in your hand. And, of course, he gloated.

The first mobile phones appeared on sale back in 1984. But they were incredibly expensive - over $ 4,000.

Because of extreme temperatures Antarctica on the mainland has no permanent population: only tourists and researchers visit it, and then only for a short time. But this does not prevent Antarctica from having its own telephony code (+682) and even its own domain on the Web - .aq.

A special phobia is dedicated to the fear of telephones, phone calls and conversations - telephonophobia.