IBM created the world's first smartphone 25 years ago
Mar 13, 2018 · The tech company IBM is widely credited with developing the world’s first smartphone – the bulky but rather cutely named Simon. It went on sale in 1994 and featured a touchscreen, email capability and a handful of built-in apps, including a calculator and a sketch pad. Despite this, Simon suffered from a number of issues, such as reportedly ...
Your smartphone has become your home, anthropologists say
May 26, 2021 · Our smartphones are instead best understood as places “within which we now live,” the report’s authors say. “We are always ‘at home’ in our smartphone.”. All of which leads them to this conclusion: “We have become human snails carrying our home in our pockets.”. Number of smartphone users worldwide from 2016 to 2023 Image ...
First Smartphone Made In The Ivory Coast For Local Users
Sep 26, 2024 · The Open G smartphone went on sale in July 2022 in the Ivory Coast and has sold several thousand units.
How AI and other technology changed our lives – a timeline
Mar 14, 2024 · More than a decade after the first smartphone had been introduced, the iPhone redefined mobile technology by combining a phone, music player, camera and internet communicator in one sleek device. It set new standards for smartphones and ultimately accelerated the explosion of smartphone usage we see across the planet today.
These are the countries where most adults still don’t have a …
Feb 27, 2019 · In South Korea 95% of adults own a smartphone, and 5% have a regular mobile phone. By contrast 75% of adults in India don’t have a smartphone, although 40% do have a mobile phone. The digital divide. South Korea is the world leader in smartphone take-up – it is the only country where 100% of the adult population have a mobile phone.
Repairing – not recycling – is the first step to tackling smartphone …
Jul 19, 2021 · The ability to repair phones will be key to conserving resources, tackling e-waste and climate mitigation, and building a circular economy for electronics. Roughly four in ten people globally owned a smartphone in 2018 and that number continues to grow rapidly. This growth is driven by steady sales of the devices – more than 1 billion each ...
Here are 5 ways digital technology is changing childhood
Jul 13, 2018 · While the first year of high school may be regarded as a default age for a child to receive their first smartphone, 39% of 8-to-11-year-olds already have them. Entry into the world of social media suddenly gives immature children a relatively independent space in which to test out "risky behaviours" that they can't necessarily understand or ...
Our love affair with smartphones has grown deeper than you think
Mar 6, 2019 · Though smartphones were once perceived as a luxury, 50% of respondents are now more concerned about forgetting their phone than their wallet. One-third would fix their smartphone before their refrigerator. And should they lose their bearings, more than 60% of respondents would prefer to consult Google Maps for directions than ask a human being.
The rise and rise of media on your mobile phone - in one chart
May 3, 2021 · In 2021, overall media consumption among U.S. adults is estimated to be around 666 minutes per day, or 11.1 hours—a 20.2% increase from 2011. Although media consumption has grown overall, this is predominantly driven by mobile usage. In fact, every category with the exception of mobile has shrunk from their respective peaks.
Here’s how technology has changed the world since 2000
Nov 18, 2020 · Similar growth can be seen on a global scale; while less than 7% of the world was online in 2000, today over half the global population has access to the internet. Similar trends can be seen in cellphone use. At the start of the 2000s, there were 740 million cell phone subscriptions worldwide. Two decades later, that number has surpassed 8 ...