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The tech company IBM is widely credited with developing the world’s first smartphone – the bulky but rather cutely named Simon. It went on sale in 1994 and featured a touchscreen, email capability and a handful of built-in apps, including a calculator and a sketch pad. Despite this, Simon suffered from a number of issues, such as reportedly ...
Jaskiran Warrik and Shreejit Borthakur. September 10, 2024. World’s first mobile phone call was made on 3 April 1973 by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper to the landline of a rival who was racing to develop the cellphone.
Xiaomi, the Chinese mobile phone company learning from history Xiaomi, the rapidly growing Chinese mobile phone company, is determined not to repeat Kodak’s mistakes. The leadership appears humble enough to accept that disruptive innovations can come from anywhere.
Quartz dug up these and other technology “firsts” that paved the way for modern life as we know it. The first mobile phone call, the first website, the first tweet. Enjoy. 1971: Computer scientist Ray Tomlinson sends the first email and chooses the @ symbol to separate the user from the host name in the mailing address.
In South Korea 95% of adults own a smartphone, and 5% have a regular mobile phone. By contrast 75% of adults in India don’t have a smartphone, although 40% do have a mobile phone. The digital divide. South Korea is the world leader in smartphone take-up – it is the only country where 100% of the adult population have a mobile phone.
In many parts of the world, phone calls and text messages still dominate usage. Constant telepresence makes it easier than ever to be nomadic. The home or office phone number is far less important than the mobile number. One need only look at the rise of distracted driving laws to see how “basic” communication continues to be a significant use.
Now there are more mobile subscriptions than people on the planet, reports Statista. There were more than 8.58 billion mobile subscriptions in use worldwide in 2022, compared to a global population of 7.95 billion. Today marks the 50th anniversary of a momentous phone call. On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper was standing in a ...
In 2021, overall media consumption among U.S. adults is estimated to be around 666 minutes per day, or 11.1 hours—a 20.2% increase from 2011. Image: Visual Capitalist. Although media consumption has grown overall, this is predominantly driven by mobile usage. In fact, every category with the exception of mobile has shrunk from their ...
The second generation introduced digital voice service that was less likely to be dropped, available to many more people and ultimately cheaper to use. 3G ushered in the mobile internet, mobile computing, and the proliferation of apps. 4G (often called LTE) made possible all we have come to expect of mobile broadband: streaming video and audio ...
Growth in Africa has stalled; both the IMF and the World Bank have cut their 2019 economic growth projections for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to 3.5% and 2.8%, respectively, with growth in 2018 at 2.3%. Poverty has increased — 437 million of the world’s extreme poor are in SSA — and 10 of the 19 most unequal countries in the world are in SSA.