Fun Mobile Phone Facts

Many businesses these days are run primarily on mobile phones. Naturally, this doesn't present a problem from a call answering perspective as we can just as easily transfer calls to a mobile device as to a landline. We can even send any messages to your mobile phone as a text message.

Here are a few fun facts about mobile phones:

• The first mobile phone call in the United Kingdom was made in 1985. Comedian Ernie Wise of Morecambe and Wise fame, called Vodafone's Newbury, Berkshire offices from London.
• There are more than 4 billion mobile phones in the world, and over 1 billion of those are smartphones.
• The most commonly number which is dialled accidentally by your mobile phone is in your pocket or bumping around your handbag, is 999. Not really surprising when you consider that most of us lock our phones so that's the only number they can call...but a bit annoying for the emergency services!
• Mobile phone internet use is expected to overtake desktop internet use by 2014. Already the majority of local internet searches are from a mobile phone.
• Need to bling up your iPhone? A British jeweller created the iPhone 4 'Diamond Rose' which features 500 diamonds with over 100 carats between them, including a 7.4 carat rose diamond on the home key. Not a phone you'd casually stick in your pocket, with a price tag of £5 million!
• New phobias have risen since mobile phones have appeared. Have you ever felt horribly uncomfortable just because you haven't got your mobile phone with you, it has run out of charge, or has no signal? There's a name for that - 'nomophobia'.