10 Fascinating Facts About Mobile Phones

10 Fascinating Facts About Mobile Phones

Chances are you don't leave home without your mobile phone, but how much do you actually know about our portable telephonic devices and their fascinating history?

Do you know who Martin Cooper is? How about a textonym? What are one-quarter of U.S. mobile phone towers disguised as? Who devised the 160-character text message limit?

Take a look through our gallery of fun mobile phone-related facts and let us know in the comments which ones are new to you. And by all means, share any cellular trivia you've picked up.

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