38 Infographic Explores Mobile Phone Evolution – Facts & Figures (History & Statistics)

Mobile technology has shown tremendous growth in recent years and now rivals other outlets as one of the most powerful forms of mass media. While mobile phones will not be the death of print, television or the Internet, it has proven to be a huge and unique new platform for delivering content.

Interesting Facts About The Mobile Phones:

The first mobile phone device was invented by Motorola and the device was named as DynaTAC 8000X.
The first text message was sent in 1992.
SMS is still king of mobile messaging with five trillion messages sent in 2009. Despite the popularity of mobile email, IM and MMS, SMS is predicted to exceed 10 trillion in 2013.
There are 4.16 billion people who owns a mobile phone.
That up to 60% of the radiation emitted by a typical cell phone, (enough to cause heating), will be absorbed by the user’s head?
78% are from developing markets while only 22% are from developed markets
Mobile marketing is the third screen for media marketing behind television and PCs
In Malaysia, market penetration for mobile devices is higher than television and PCs
Symbian (Nokia) makes up the highest market share of mobile operating system
If you have a Nokia mobile set and you are going out of battery and also you are expecting a very important call. Do not worry, simply by dialing the code *3370# , the battery of your Nokia set will upgrade up to 50% by using a built-in reserve battery. This is very helpful in the situation when mobile battery is about to finish and you do not have any other means to charge your set.
he biggest handset manufacturers are (in no specific order):
- Apple
- LG
- Motorola
- Sony
- RIMM
- Nokia
- Samsung
The top five mobile network operators worldwide that derive more of their revenue from data than other operators are all Asian: Smart Philippines, Globe Philippines, SoftBank Japan, NTT DOCOMO Japan, KDDI Japan. Also four of the top five MNOs for monthly churn (loyalty) are also Asian. Also includes top five for subscribers, revenues, monthly average revenue per user (ARPU).
Mobile phones can be used almost anywhere in the world, although the common cell phone technology is just one form of mobile phone. In some places, satellite phones are needed to reach out to the rest of the world.
Manufacturing a mobile phone uses as much energy as 39.79 gallons of petrol. (source: http://www.esu-services.ch/download/faist-2005-umts.pdf)
Mobile subscribers are growing rapidly. There will be 5.8 billion mobile subscribers worldwide by 2013 (Portio Research). No other media channel offers anything like this reach.
Half a billion people accessed mobile Internet worldwide in 2009. Usage will double within five years as mobile overtakes the PC as the most popular way to get on the Web. But with 233 million mobile Web users in China alone, is this estimate conservative?
By 2011, over 85 percent of new handsets will be able to access the mobile Web.* Please note that this does not mean smartphones – you do not need a smartphone to access the mobile Web (but it does make for a richer experience).
Handset figures show strong growth in smartphone sales (Gartner), which will be 29 percent of all cell phones by 2014 (Ovum). This means a richer mobile Web experience for mobile users.
More and more phones now support 3G and even faster networks based on High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) (IE Market Research). That means faster downloads.
Meanwhile 60 percent of the world’s population is now covered by a next-generation High Speed Packet Access mobile network (3G Americas). That means better access to high-speed downloads.
Mobile data is expected to balloon: a) revenue-wise, analysts expect data to be bigger than voice by 2011 (Pyramid Research); b) volume-wise, as mobile Internet users will be sending and receiving more data in one month than in the whole of 2008 (ABI Research).
No matter how bad the world recession becomes, mobile services revenue e.g. those useful value-added services offered to customers by operators, will continue to increase (ABI Research).
As the mobile Web matures, so brand expenditure on mobile advertising is predicted to be bigger than spending on SMS marketing in 2009, then will quadruple by 2014 (Juniper Research). Estimates for expenditure on mobile advertising and marketing worldwide ranged from US$1.4 billion to $7.5 billion in 2009, all analysts forecast rapid growth. But with annual mobile advertising expenditure of US$1.14 billion in Japan alone, are these estimates conservative or is Japan still light years ahead of the rest of the world?
Japan has much higher mobile Internet penetration than the US or Europe. This high usage of the mobile Internet (and mobile data generally) means mobile advertising/marketing is considerably more advanced than elsewhere. (http://mobithinking.com/blog/why-japan-is-mobile-king)