12 Things you don't know about a mobile phone
Published on 19 March 14
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#1 The first mobile phone was built in 1973. It weighed 2.2 Pounds (1 Kilo Gram)
#2 The first commercially available mobile phone is DynaTAC 8000x in 1983
#3 The first commercial automated cellular network was launched in Japan by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in 1979.
#4 2G was first launced in Finland by Radiolinja on the GSM standard in the year 1991.
#5 The first SIM card was made in 1991 by Munich smart card maker Giesecke & Devrient for the Finnish wireless network operator Radiolinja.
#6 The first SMS from phone to phone was sent in Finland in 1993.
#7 The first game on a mobile phone was a Tetris game on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994.
#8 One of the first examples of distributing and selling media content through the mobile phone was the sale of ringtones by Radiolinja in Finland, in 1998.
#9 The first commercial mobile payments systems was launched by mobile operators Globe and Smart of Philippines in 1998.
#10 The first mobile news service, delivered via SMS, was launched in Finland in 2000.
#11 3G was launched in Japan in the year 2001 by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT).
#12 The world's largest individual mobile operator by subscribers is China Mobile with over 500 million mobile phone subscribers.
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