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To the chagrin of many teachers, cell phones are very much a part of a teenager's life. A cell phone is a modern day Swiss Army knife, capable of performing many different applications, from taking photographs, playing games, listening to music, and yes, even making phone calls. But these days, a cell phone's primary function, especially in
·the halls of CCI, is text messaging. Students can be seen walking down the hallways with the eyes transfixed to their cell phone carefully constructing a message to their peer whose only a stone throw away. The cell phone is the ultimate communicate tool, and when asked what technology students cannot live without, many will immediately respond with their cell phone.
Interesting Focls oboul Cell Phones - There are over 3.3 billion subscribers of cell phones
world wide.
I_By the year 2010, about 90% of the world will have cell
phone coverage.
j-One research firm estimates there will be 2.3 trillion text 1 messages sent throughout the world, earning cell phone
companies over $60 billion in revenue.
- Early portable phones required a huge amount of power. 1 That's why most of these phones were installed on
1 vehicles .
- Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola is the man credited with corning up with the main idea for the modern cell phone
1 as we know it today , in the 1970s.
- The first cell phones weighed over 2 pounds and had a price tage of $3995.
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