International holidays - Mobile phone birthday

Every year, April 3 is celebrated around the world as the birthday of the mobile phone It is impossible to imagine the life of a modern person without this device A smartphone is a means of communication, a device with which you access the Internet, record messages or take photographs This is interesting: Researchers of extraterrestrial civilizations believe that we received advanced technologies such as wireless communications and mobile phones from aliens Ufologists are confident that access to similar alien devices became available to people after the UFO crash Wireless telephony has interested scientists for many years One of the engineers involved in research in this area was an employee of the American company Motorola Inc Martin Cooper He spent many years improving bulky car phones, trying to make them lightweight and ergonomic It was Cooper who made the first cell phone call to his colleague at rival Bell Telephone Laboratories on April 3, 1973 Cooper happily announced that he had contacted his friend on the phone It was very different from modern gadget models The progenitor of today's mobile phones had an impressive weight (1 kg) and dimensions - about 4 cm thick, 225 cm long and almost 13 cm wide The first devices went on sale in the United States in 1983 The cost of each was $4,000 This is interesting: The average person looks at their smartphone about 110 times a day and cannot imagine their life without this device The fear of being without a mobile phone is called “nomophobia” It affects 47% of US users, each of whom claims that they could not live without their smartphone Modern models of gadgets are very different in functionality from the handset, which was invented back in 1973 Today, using the phone, people not only make calls, but also take photographs, access the Internet, exchange files, watch movies, control household appliances, listen to music and send money A modern smartphone is a computer in miniature Most Chinese mobile phone users access the Internet using smartphones, not PCs, which the majority do not own This is interesting: The power and performance of a single cell phone exceeds the combined performance of the computers that powered Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon landing The device with the ability to access emails went on sale in August 1994 IBM Simon model from Mitsubishi Electric Corp became the first communication device to combine the functions of a computer and a telephone The phone cost $1,099 It could work as a pager, alarm clock, receive calls, fax messages and e-mail The device, in fact, was the first smartphone, although this word began to be actively used in 2000 after the Ericsson R380s entered the market At the same time, users had the opportunity to take photographs using their phones Sharp, together with the Japanese cellular operator J-Phone, released a smartphone with a built-in camera in 2000 This is interesting: Mobile phones use different operating systems to operate Despite the popularity of the iOS-based iPhone, 80% of all existing smartphones run on Android The price of mobile phones has been constantly decreasing since their invention And if the first model was sold for $4,000, today a smartphone can be bought for $30 A Digma phone costs 2,000 rubles, VERTEX Impress Funk for 2 SIM cards costs 1,870 rubles The appearance of two GSM modules has increased the list of smartphone options The first device with two SIM card slots was Benefon Twin, released in 2000 Switching between them was done manually The constant increase in the number of functions and memory capacity in modern phone models allows us to confidently say that they are worthy competition for bulky PCs Compact and convenient smartphones are appreciated by the majority of the world's population That is why April 3 is the birthday of the mobile phone