Could you live without your phone?

Facts and Statistics

75 percent of the British population bring their phones to the bathroom. 4 out of 5 consumers aged 25 or below use smartphones to shop. By 2014, mobile internet is predicted to take over desktop internet usage Worldwide mobile payment transactions surpassed $171.5 billion in 2012, up 62% from $106 million 2011 and set to surpass $200 billion in 2013 The Galaxy S4 sets a new record for Samsung, generating sales quicker than any of its predecessors. It is estimated that the phone is selling at a rate of four units per second In comparison, it took 50 days for the Galaxy S3 to reach 10 million. The S2 and S waited five months and seven months, respectively, to achieve the same number On the 3rd of April 2013 we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the first public mobile phone call. Kids receive their first mobile phone, on average, at age 12 More than half (53%) of kids report that they have ridden with someone who was texting and driving. In 2000, just half of UK adults said that they had a mobile phone that figure now stands at 94%. Outgoing call volumes from landlines and mobiles both decreased in 2012. The volume of calls from fixed lines fell by 7.7% to 103 billion minutes while mobiles declined by 1%.

History and Development of the mobile phone

1940
Next came the SCR-300 radio transceiver, developed for the U.S. Military by Motorola. This time a portable FM radio, it weighed anywhere from 32 to 38 pounds with a 3-mile range. It replaced the SCR-194 and 195 with nearly 50,000 units used in World War II by Allied Forces

1999
One of the most popular mobile phones in history was the Nokia 3210, with over 160 million sold. It was one of the first to allow picture messages, but only preinstalled ones like "Happy Birthda,y" and was one of the first to be marketing toward young people

2007
In 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone, a revolutionary touchscreen smartphone. It wasn't the first smartphone, but it was the first to get the user interface right, eventually adapting 3G technology (which was already available since 2001).

2013
The revolution of mobile phones in the past 70 years has been incredible weve gone from backpack radio transceivers, to portable devices as small as 10 centimeters in length that can call people, send texts, surf the web, send emails, take high resolution photographs, shoot videos, play games on and much morejust imagine the developments in technology we will see in the next 70 years.