10 shocking facts about mobile phones

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You must have often wondered that you are getting too dependent on your mobile phone but remember, you are not alone. There are hundreds of thousands of people around the world that make cell phones a very special yet peculiar gadget.

Lets have a look at 10 things about mobile phones that is both shocking as well as interesting.

1. 90 percent of mobile phones in Japan are waterproof because youngsters use them even in the bathroom.
2. Can you believe that you can also charge your phone by using urine? Yes, scientists have developed it.
3. In the year 2012 Apple sold more than 3 lakh 40 thousand iPhone per day, which is around 4 per second.
4. In 1983, the first mobile phones went on sale in the US at almost $4,000 each which translates close to into Rs 2.5 lakh today.
5. Former Motorola inventor Martin Cooper made the first handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 4, 1973.
6. Since its launch in late 2003, over 250 million of Nokia 1100 handsets have been sold, making it the world's best selling phone handset and the best selling consumer electronics device in the world.
7. Funny it might sound, but every year 100,000 mobile phones are dropped down the toilet in Britain.
8. The dependence on mobile phones have become so intense that researchers have even developed a questionnaire that can determine if you suffer from nomophobia or a fear of being without your mobile phone.
9. Have you ever thought how dirty you mobile phone could be? Research says that it has 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
10. Can you imagine the computing power of today's mobile phone? It is more than the computers used for the Apollo 11 to land on the moon!

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