1. In Mexico, the drug cartels are capturing technicians and making them build a private cell phone network for them. – Source
2. In 2011, a Norwegian boy escaped from wolves by playing a heavy metal song by Megadeth on his cell phone. – Source
3. Hacker Kevin Mitnick, Dubbed the “most dangerous hacker in the world,” spent 8 months of his prison sentence in solitary confinement because law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he could start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone. He listened in on FBI phone calls during the three years he evaded the FBI, left them doughnuts when he narrowly escaped raids and was chased down by a helicopter. – Source
4. Nokia is developing a method of harvesting radio-waves, which would recharge your phone while it’s on standby. – Source
5. Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888, but it proved unusable as he was receiving over 100 wrong numbers a day, mostly from babies playing with the phone. – Source

6. 90 to 95% of mobile phone sales in Japan were waterproof because Japanese young girls are so fond of their mobile phones they even use them in the shower. – Source
7. While Mother’s Day is the busiest for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls (a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for). – Source
8. If your phone’s GPS tracks itself going over 1,200 mph at an altitude higher than 60,000 feet, it legally is required to deactivate the tracking as it probably means it is being used to guide an intercontinental missile. – Source
9. Carlton Rich, a convict used his one phone call to call his girlfriend, who then called the same jail, with Rich himself on three-way. He pulled an impersonation of a prison official In New Mexico granting himself bail. Rich also orchestrated a fax confirming his release. He was released, but arrested again three days later in the same city at his girlfriend’s house. – Source
10. In 1993, IBM released a mobile phone with touch screen and E-mail. – Source

11. A wanted pimp had such a sophisticated pattern lock on his android phone that the FBI was unable to crack it. They had to serve Google with a warrant to try and help them. – Source
12. A woman in France received a rather substantial phone bill of 11,721,000,000,000,000€ (6,000 times the GDP of France itself). The phone company suggested she pay it off in multiple installments and only admitted their error after further pressing. – Source
13. In 1971, John Draper, a former phone phreak used a whistle found in a Cap’n Crunch cereal box to hack AT&T. This gave him authorization into the phone companies system, essentially giving him operator like control, with the ability to place free long distance calls around the world. – Source
14. Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, returned to Earth by ejecting from his space capsule at 7 km, parachuting down the rest of the way sans-ship, walking up to a farmer and daughter asking to use the phone to call Moscow. – Source
15. 112 is an international mobile (cell) phone emergency number that redirects you to the local emergency services. – Source

16. The first message sent over the Washington-Moscow hotline (aka “Red phone”) was “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1234567890”. To make sure all keys on the teletypes were operational. – Source
17. Google gives its live traffic feeds by using anonymous cell phone data. They collect the speed at which phones are moving and use that data to indicate traffic congestion – Source
18. In 1996, after a rash of unexplained pay phone thefts in Malaysia, authorities discovered that the fishermen were using them as bait. Fishermen would cut off the handsets, connected them to high-powered batteries and lowered them into the water. The electricity passing through the microphones produced a high-pitched sound that attracted fishes into their nets. – Source
19. One ton of mobile phone waste contains 60 times more gold than one ton of gold ore – Source
20. Cell phones have zero effect on airplane equipment. It is the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) that doesn’t want them to be used on airplanes. It is because when you make a call at 10,000 feet, the signal bounces off multiple available cell towers, rather than one at a time. This means too many airline passenger might clog up the networks on the ground, – Source

21. You can use your cell phone’s camera to see if the battery in you television’s remote still has some juice in it. This only works on remotes which use infrared LEDs to communicate with devices. Phone’s camera can detect these infrared flashes when the remote is used.
22. Starting with an old cell phone, a teen used craigslist to keep trading up, ultimately ending up with a Porsche Boxster S convertible. – Source
23. In Japan, Sony sells a mouse that doubles as a phone for Skype. When the phone rings the user simply opens the mouse, cell-phone style, and starts talking. – Source
24. A random phone booth was placed in the Mojave Desert in the 1960s in a location several miles from the nearest paved roads and buildings. A movie filmed about it in 2006. – Source
25. In a 1982, on an episode of SNL, Eddie Murphy decided the fate of a live lobster using two phone lines put on screen. Over 500,000 calls were made, causing such a spike in traffic that AT&T set up communication with the television networks to warn them of future disruptions, which still exists today. – Source

25 Amazing Facts About Mobile Phones Which Will Shock You

We can’t imagine our lives without a mobile phone now. We are addicted to them, our day starts with them. Google’s Google Now, Apple’s siri and Microsoft’s Cortana became a part of our life, they made our lives simple and they help us in many ways. Now let us see the amazing facts about mobile phones.

1. Have you ever used Nokia 1100? Be proud, it was the bestselling electrical gadget in history with more than 250 million pieces sold.
2. $4000 is the cost of first mobile phone in US, in 1983.
3. In 2012 Apple sold more than 340,000 iPhones per day, which is around 4 per second.
Also see amazing facts about Apple Inc., and evolution of iOS.
4. Be careful while using your mobile phone, it has 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
5. Is your phone water proof? 90% of mobile phones in Japan, are waterproof.
6. Insomnia, confusion and headaches are caused due to mobile phone radiation. Experts have identified ringxiety, nomophobia, telephonophobia and frigensophobia as conditions that can effect people.
7. This sounds odd, but you can charge your phone by using urine, scientists developed it.
8. The first mobile call was made by Martin Cooper in 1973.
9. Do you know that the present mobile phones have more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 to land on the moon.
10. In Britain more than 100,000 mobile phones are dropped down in the toilet every year.
11. In 1993, world’s first Smartphone was debuted at Florida’s Wireless World Conference by BellSouth Cellular, it has a LCD touch screen display. This was designed by IBM and named as Simon ,priced at $899 and only 2000 Simmons are made at that time.
12. In U.S., the mobile phone towers and antennas are often disguised. Engineers have developed ways to install the equipment into telephone poles, clock faces, church roofs and even in signs. Even mobile phone tower is often disguised as plastic trees.
13. 70% of mobile phones are manufactured in China.
14. Around 80% of the world’s population has a mobile phone.
15. More than 90% of adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach all the time.
16. There are more mobile phones than PCs, the ratio is 5 times.
17. More than 4 billion people own mobile phones. But only 3.5 billion use a toothbrush.
18. Within 3 minutes of delivery, 90% of text messages are read.
19. More than 80% of adults in U.S. own a mobile phone.
20. What is your monthly mobile phone bill? 142,000 pounds is the highest ever mobile bill by Celina Aarons.
21. According to Guinness World Records, Sonim XP3300 Force is recognized as the toughest phone. It survived an 84ft drop without any operational damage.
22. Mobile phone industry is the fastest growing industry in the world.
23. iPhone 5 Black Diamond is the costliest phone in the world, which costs $15 million. It will take nine weeks to build, made of 135 gram solid gold of 24 carat and the chassis was inlaid with 600 white diamonds.
24. 74 % of smartphone users use their mobile phone to help with shopping, of which 79% ultimately making a purchase.
25. Mobile phone users mostly spend their time on games and social networking(49% and 30% respectively).