Happy birthday!! Mobile Phone calls hits 40 years old

Believe it or not the first ever mobile phone call was made on April the 3rd 1973.

A senior engineer named Marty Cooper at Motorola called a colleague at a rival telecommunications firm and announced he was calling from a “real cellular telephone”

The DynaTAC 8000x was slightly bigger than today’s tech; it weighed 2.5 pounds, measured 10 inches long, and was soon nicknamed “the brick”, the battery lasted a mere 20 minutes and took 10 hours to charge. His Inspiration was star trek captain kirks flip up communicator.

Motorola engineer Marty Cooper

In 40 years, the industry has come a long way. Research firm IDC predicts 900 million smartphones will be sold in 2013 – along with roughly the same number of more basic feature phones. And the phone has become a key advertising platform – UK mobile advertising grew a staggering 132% in the first six months of last year to £181.5m, according to Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The mobile phone has revolutionised the world, countries where land lines are a rarity can conduct business, a report shows that both Africa and India’s GDP has increased by 5% because of the mobile phone.

In a world of 7 billion people, 6 billion own a mobile phone.

Here are some interesting facts and figures for all website owners:

  • 47% of consumers confirm they use their smartphone to search for local information such as a local store they want to visit. 46% of consumers look up prices on a store’s mobile site, and 42% check inventory prior to shopping in the store
  • 62% of shoppers search for deals digitally for at least half of their shopping trips
  • 80% of mobile users prefer locally relevant advertising and 75% are more likely to take an action after seeing a location-specific message
  • 41% of smartphone owners have made a purchase from their mobile phone. Of those, 16% bought apparel; 15% food and beverages; 11% toys and games; 11% electronics; 8% home goods; 4% sporting goods; 4% books; 3% jewellery; and 8% other products
  • 56% of us use our mobiles to sign into social media sites such as facebook and twitter

Stats courtesy of http://www.rapidmarketplace.com

So tell me, do you have a mobile friendly website? If not, it’s time to make a change.

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