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[eljay]

Kung may alam kayong trivia about cell phone paki-post nyo na lang dito para dagdag kaalaman din sating lahat.....pwede po english o tagalog basta tungkol sa cell phone...


sampolan ko na po:-)



Did You Know?

...that In 1973 Martin Cooper invented the first cell phone. It weighed two pounds! Because they were so big and expensive, at first cell phones were only used by the military and businesses. By 1983 they were smaller and much less expensive and used by more people in the general population.:dance:

[mikiong]

Trivia:


Nokia's one billionth phone sold was a Nokia 1100 purchased in Nigeria.

Nokia Corporation is currently the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, with a global device market share of approximately 36% in Q1 of 2007.



Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first modern portable handset. Cooper made the first call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. He made the call to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. Bell Laboratories introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947 with the police car technology. However, Motorola was the first to incorporate the technology into portable device that was designed for outside of a automobile use. Cooper and his co-inventors are listed above.

By 1977, AT&T and Bell Labs had constructed a prototype cellular system. A year later, public trials of the new system were started in Chicago with over 2000 trial customers. In 1979, in a separate venture, the first commercial cellular telephone system began operation in Tokyo. In 1981, Motorola and American Radio telephone started a second U.S. cellular radio-telephone system test in the Washington/Baltimore area. By 1982, the slow-moving FCC finally authorized commercial cellular service for the USA. A year later, the first American commercial analog cellular service or AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) was made available in Chicago by Ameritech.

Despite the incredible demand, it took cellular phone service 37 years to become commercially available in the United States. Consumer demand quickly outstripped the 1982 system standards. By 1987, cellular telephone subscribers exceeded one million and the airways were crowded.

[crazy-fox-06]

-The first cellular phones to be created were very large and bulky. This made them difficult to carry around. The first cell phone came to the market in 1984 from Motorola and weighed 2 pounds. It was a DynaTac 8000X which was selling for $3, 995. A few years later, in 1991, the Motorola MicroTac Lite was created which cost $1,000.

-When the first cell phones were made in 1984, there were many health risks. Cell phones emit radiation that could be harmful. No testing had been done prior to releasing these phones to the public. The radiation could possibly lead to brain cancer with long-term use.

-Cellular phones give off an electromagnetic energy which is a type of non-ionizing radiation. This is similar to the radiation naturally found in thunderstorms. The RF electromagnetic energy that cellular phones create can penetrate through a body. The main factors for the depth of penetration and how much is absorbed come from how close the phone is held and how strong its signal is.

[AxssDn3!D]

Nokia never uses number 4

Nokia has just announced two new devices from their N-Series family, i.e. Nokia N75 and N95. They are absolutely very cool devices. They are marketed as multimedia computers, no longer as smart phones or mobile phones.

Anyway, there was a question that pop up in my mind, why the numbering jumps from N73 to N75 and from N93 to N95. Where are N74 and N94?

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Is “4″ unlucky number for Nokia? Honestly, I don’t have the answer. What I do know, “4″ is not a good number in Chinese tradition. Why? Because it is pronounced as “shi”, very similar to “death”.

[crazy-fox-06]

-The “Special” tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for “SMS”. Similarly, the “Ascending” SMS tone is Morse code for “Connecting People” Nokia’s slogan. The “Standard” SMS tone is Morse code for “M” (Message).

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-The ringtone “Nokia tone” is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named “Gran Vals” by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega - something we already knew, but "Grande Valse" was changed to “Nokia Tune” around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the “Nokia Tune.”

[blay27]

"hi Joel" the first 2 words na unang unang sinabi gamit ang phone. -1 vs 100

[hellside]

Cell phone trivia


Is it really a phone?


Technologically-speaking the cell phone is closer to a radio than to a landline telephone. It is related to the walkie talkie and CB radio, except with a cell phone both parties can talk simultaneously.

Of course, it’s way more sophisticated. Where the walkie talkie has one channel and a CB radio has 40, a typical cell phone can communicate on 1, 664 channels.




So, why is it called a cell phone?


The wireless communication used by mobile phones is called ‘cellular’ because of the system of base stations (reception and transmission equipment used to connect the phone to the network) used to divide an area into ‘cells’. Cellular calls are transferred from base station to base station as a user travels from cell to cell.



Who invented it?


The basic concept of cellular phones dates back 1947, when researchers at Bell Labs looked at car phones and realized that by using small ‘cells’ (range of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones. However they lacked the technology to make it work.

Dr Martin Cooper, a manager at Motorola, is generally credited with inventing the first modern portable handset. It was the size of a brick and weighed 850 grams (today’s phones weigh less than 100g). The first call on a portable cell phone was made in April 1973 when Cooper phoned his rival at AT & T’s Bell Labs to announce he had beaten him to it.

The first public trials of the cellular system took place in Chicago in 1978. In 1979, the first commercial operational cellular phone service was implemented in Tokyo, Japan. The first American commercial cellular service was made available in Chicago in 1983.



How many people use cell phones?


With over 1 billion phones expected to be shipped in 2006 (that’s not counting the estimated 1.5 billion cell phones already out there) and a global population of 6.5 billion people, just about everyone who can afford one has one.

Figures for 2005:
Worldwide 1.35 billion
China 383 million
USA 194.5 million
Africa 80 million
UK 63.6 million
South Africa 27.4 million
Australia 18 million
New Zealand 3.5 m (4 million people and 45 million sheep)



Biggest cell phone network operators?


UK-based Vodafone has 171 million subscribers or 471.5 m if you count the proportion of its minority stakes worldwide. The biggest single operator is China Mobile with 235 m subscribers.

In South Africa, Vodacom leads the pack with 15.8 m, MTN with 9 m and CellC with 3m. Over 9 000 users sign up per day (mostly prepaid)

The SA market is currently worth R 23 billion and will grow to around R 54 billion by 2007.



What does 3G stand for?


The G stands for generation. The analogue phones of the 1980’s are designated first generation or 1G. The early 90’s saw the introduction of the GSM standard, or digital, the second generation of cell phones. Technological advances led to dramatic reductions in size and mass during this period.

3G phones became more widespread after 2003 and have high-speed data transfer capabilities. 3G phones may look more like PDAs (personal digital assistant or handheld organisers such as the Palm Pilot), with features such as video conferencing, advanced personal calendar functions and multi-player gaming.



Smelly cell phones?


Siemens's CL75 is the first cellphone with a fragrance. Siemens is also developing a cell phone with a tiny sensor chip that will alert users if they've got bad breath or offensive body odour.



World’s largest cell phone manufacturers?


1st - Finland's Nokia with an estimated 30.4 percent of the market in 2005
2nd - US-based Motorola with 16.8 percent
3rd - Korean company Samsung at 13.3 percent
4th - Another Korean brand, LG Electronics, has 6.2 percent.
5th - Japanese-Swedish combo, Sony Ericsson with 6 percent
6th - Germany’s Siemens with 5.5 percent of the market