What cell phone was popular in 2012?

First place goes to the Samsung Galaxy S III – the most popular phone among you, the GSMArena readers, this year. Sure it had more time than most, being launched in May, but its 20.1 million hits still make the margin of its victory quite impressive.

What phones did they use in 2012?

The Most Important Phones Of 2012

  • LG Optimus G.
  • HTC One X Plus.
  • HTC Droid DNA.
  • Motorola Droid RAZR HD and RAZR MAXX HD.
  • Galaxy Note II.
  • Google Nexus 4.
  • iPhone 5.
  • Nokia Lumia 920.

What year did smartphones become popular?

Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid 1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile phones than wired devices.

When did cell phones become widespread?

When did cell phones become popular? Cell phones became popular during the cellular revolution that started in the 90s. In 1990, the number of mobile users was around 11 million, and by 2020, that number had risen to a whopping 2.5 billion.

When did cell phones get Internet?

1996
The first mobile phone with Internet access The first mobile phone with Internet connectivity was the Nokia 9000 Communicator. It was launched in Finland back in 1996, but in truth the viability of accessing the Internet was at first limited by very high prices by the operators.

Is the cell phone addiction a new issue?

It is not a new issue at all. But the increasing trend of cell phone addiction and poor psychological and physiological health of adolescents urged to write this letter. Many studies have been done using different human behavior as dependent and independent variable.

How is cell phone use linked to depression?

Li et al. (2016) did a prospective cohort and proposed that insomnia and risk of depression are associated. De-Sola Gutiérrez et al. (2016) revealed that the problematic cell phone usage had been associated with sleep deficit, depression, anxiety, and stress.

How many people in the world use a cell phone?

Around the world, smartphones were used by 1.85 billion people in 2014 which is expected to be 2.32 billion in 2017 and 2.87 billion in 2020 (Cha and Seo, 2018[8]). Such too much dependency makes us “Mobile addictive”.

Which is a positive predictor of cell phone addiction?

Their cross-sectional study proposed that depression and anxiety were also a positive predictor of smartphone addiction. They also revealed that with depression scores were a more powerful predictor as compared to anxiety.