These are some of top mind blowing facts about your smartphone.
let's dive in, Number One NASA use them as cheap satellites the smartphone industry has pushed the boundaries of low cost high performance solutions so far that the average smartphone has more computing power and memory than the average satellite in addition to this smartphones already have a GPS multiple accelerometers motion sensors radio receivers and more for well under $1,000 NASA noticed this unique anomaly in modern technology and in 2009 they created project "PHONESAT" this project is an ongoing experiment that uses smartphone as a satellites onboard computer they have been multiple versions launched as new phones are released the orbital lifespan is said to be one year, pretty awesome.
Number Two, smart phones are the fastest growing industry in history and today the industry is worth over 300 billion dollars to really understand just how big that is we have to compare it to the next closest thing Humanity has seen the PC market compared to the PC market the smartphone industry has been growing at a rate of 4 times the maximum rate of PC growth in January 2014 for the first time in history mobile phone internet usage over took PC internet usage, that's not all in the period between 1975 and June 2008 1 billion pieces were sold this includes desktops, laptops, servers and everything combined, in comparison smartphone sales top 1 billion in just 2013 alone the sales have been so rapid that even on YouTube some smartphone reviews have been made celebrities in their own right.Smartphones are only getting more popular with low-cost high-performance options such as the Nexus 5 and Sony Xperia Z , samsung galaxy s6,s7 and htc and other companies phones and in addition to this so-called developing nations are absolutely loving smartphones India has the fastest growing smartphone market in the world it's all pretty interesting stuff and it's really only just been taking off in the last year or so.
Number Three, smartphones are actually slowly changing the world, in 2014 mobile traffic is almost 15% of the continent of Africa , in egypt 70% of people say they don't even touch desktop or laptops to access the web they only use my phone, in may 2012 a study from the University of Colorado found that the average person belonging to Generation Y (smartphone generation) has the phones with them 91% of the day and they're very likely to use their phones to meet up with each other settle arguments or solve unexpected problems Generation Y and Z basically my and your generation has grown up with the internet and the smartphone was basically the next logical step some say that it's making this generation less social but that's really up to the individual, in addition to this smartphones have made colossal dentss in the sales of point and shoot cameras, camcorders, newspapers, print media in general books, portable gaming systems, MP3 players and basically most things you can think of. Now of course the smartphone wouldn't have been able to do this by itself it's the smart phone plus the collective knowledge of everyone through the internet that has caused this shift.
Number Four, you are smartphone is more powerful then you think this will blow your mind for this fact we have to go back on a journey through time and space, so the year is 1946 and on this is the first-ever general-purpose fully electronic computer was created its name was "ENIAC" , this computer took up an entire room and required a large amount of energy just to complete 385 calculations per second, now in 2013 the Snapdragon 800 chip that is not uncommon in most smartphones can do 28 billion calculations per second, in other words it would take 72 million eniac computers just to make up the power of one smartphone chip.
These were some of the awesome facts about our smartphones, i hope you likes it.
