It has been over 50 years since the first mobile telephone call has been made. I was literally a baby when that call was made and although mobile phones were not commonplace in my childhood, I can certainly remember the ‘brick’ and have watched with interest as phones have become smaller and smaller and the number of us who use them got larger.
Another amazing fact which I heard was that there are now more mobile phones in use than people on the planet! That quite frankly is astounding, there are over 11 billion mobile phones and about 8 billion people! The difference of 3 billion phones is down to those who maybe have work phones and personal ones. It is estimated that 12.4 billion calls are made each day and over 23 billion text messages sent in their various forms.
The numbers are staggering, and we use apps for so many different things from tracking our steps to paying for our parking to the restaurant we chose because we can view the menu on our phone at work. You begin to wonder how we all functioned before their invention!
