Cool Facts
- Most newer digital cellular phones have some sort of entertainment programs on them, ranging from simple dice-throwing games to memory and logic puzzles.
- Approximately 20 percent of American teens (more girls than boys) own a cellular phone.
- Cellular phones are more popular in European countries than they are in the United States -- about 60 percent of Europeans own a cell phone, compared to about 40 percent of Americans.
- The GSM standard for digital cell phones was established in Europe in the mid-1980s -- long before digital cellular phones became commonplace in American culture.
- It is now possible to locate a person using a cellular phone down to a range of a few meters, anywhere on the globe.
- 3G (third-generation wireless) phones may look more like PDAs, with features such as video conferencing, advanced personal calendar functions and multi-player gaming.
