Amazing Technical Facts about Cellphones

Top 10 Amazing Technical Facts of Cellphones

#1 Bell Labs conceived the idea of the cellular phone in 1947.

#2 Citizens of Norway can submit their tax forms by SMS.

#3 Catholics in the Philippines are not allowed to confess their sins via text messaging because the Bishops feel that e-mail and fax confessions are not secure enough.

#4 The Nokia 5160 series included an edition with Disney characters Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald.

#5 CDMA technology uses multiple channels simultaneously. It does this by assigning each user a code that is used in the multiplexing of data.

#6 Michael Faraday’s exhaustive research into whether space could conduct electricity had an incalculable effect on cellular phone development.

#7 Cell phones went public in 1977, when Chicago began public cell phone trials with 2000 customers. Japan began testing cellular phone services in 1979.

#8 Dr. Mahlon Loomis of Virginia, a dentist, may have been the first person to communicate through wireless via the atmosphere.

#9 Nearly 45 countries, including India, have banned the use of cell phones while driving. In Ireland, you can be fined $380 and/or face imprisonment for three months.

#10 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology was originally developed for miltary use in the late 1960s.