The Mobile Phone Museum collection features over 2100 individual models from more than 200 different brands. All devices on show have been donated, catalogued, labelled and photographed.
What an awesome project👏
Check out some of these collections; including ugliest phones, James Bond devices and 1980's handsets...
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We are getting better at typing on our smartphones.
Our average typing speed on a phone is now 38 words per minute compared to 52 on a PC or laptop.
The gap is more narrow for young people, who can type about 10 words per minute more than older people.
The increased amount of time that we spend on smartphones has made us more efficient at typing. On average, millennials (born 1981 - 1996) spend 48 minutes per day texting, while baby boomers (born 1946 - 1964) spend 30 minutes per day.
Autocorrect has allowed us to type much more quickly, by correcting mishits and compensating for our inability to spell. Interestingly, studies have shown that predictive text actually slows us down. Participants that used autocorrect scored 43 words per minute, compared to 35 using predictive text, and 33 using no assistance.
This is because it takes longer to look at a word, assess whether or not it's the word that we want, and the tap it, than it does to just type it. We also tend to only use predictive text for longer words, which take more effort to spell and type.
Where it does come in handy is when typing phrases that we use frequently. Our phones keep a record of our typing habits, so if we use the same phrases often, we can just tap-tap-tap to finish a sentence. Your keyboard will remember all your corrections, and even when you ignore a correction, so that it can better-match words to similar sentences in the future. It continuously adapts to your typing habits. Therefore, it may be a feature that only pays off in certain situations, or when used regularly.
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Time and attention are our most valuable resources. In a world where technology seeks relentlessly to consumes our time and attention, we can be left feeling overstimulated, unproductive and anxious.
Making a few changes to our smartphone habits is a major key to maximising our productivity in all areas of life.
This article shares some great ideas on what you can do to utilize your phone to improve your life, not control it.
This is a long and detailed article, so use the table of contents to find what might apply to you, or read it in stages.
This is specifically for the iPhone and iOS, but all the same principles apply to Android devices.
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This was the moment, 24 years ago, that mobile phones became multi-use tools, with the addition of a calculator, calendar and games, i.e. Snake.
Finnish company Nokia had 51 per cent of the global market share in 2007, and was the leading mobile phone manufacturer for 14 years.
To this day, 8 of the top 10 best selling mobile phones are Nokia models. The Nokia 1100 tops the list. Released in 2003, Nokia sold 250 million units.
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MagSafe wireless charging is good because you don't have to worry about your phone not charging because it wasn't quite lined up with the charging pad, which often happens with regular wireless charging. When it's on, it's secure.
It works well with compatible accessories like cases and car mounts, though many users have trouble getting it to work, suggesting that the precision and quality of manufacturing is inconsistent at this stage.
Perhaps around 10% of iPhone 12 and 13 users actually utilize MagSafe, but this will increase as more people upgrade to the new models, and MagSafe compatible accessories become more abundant.
