7 Best Practices to Overcome Mobile Application Usability Issues
Did you know, exactly 45 years ago, on April 3rd of 1973, the first mobile phone was launched by Motorola? Inventor of that Motorola mobile was Martin Cooper who made first call to his professional rival, Joel Engle, head of research at Bell Labs. The name of the first mobile phone was “Cooper Phone.” Now, let’s blow your mind with the facts that may be unknown to you till date. It took 10 hours to charge for 20 minutes of battery life. Yes, you heard it right, it took 10 hrs to load for 20 minutes of battery life of the phone which weighed 2.5 pounds and was the size of a 10-inch brick. Who knew at that time, that one day, mobile phones would rule the world with its versatility and usability. Leave alone the prediction, no one in one’s wild dreams thought that, till 2018, there would be 4.57 billion users of ‘that tiny electronic & communication device.’ Because currently there are 7.7 billion people in the world, more than 60% of people or 6 out of 10 people use mobile phones. According to Statista, an online statistics and survey platform, here are some of the fantastic facts about mobile devices:
In 2019, the number of mobile phone users is forecasted to reach 4.68 billion.
An estimated 62.9 % of the population worldwide already owned a mobile phone.
The mobile phone penetration is forecasted to continue to grow, rounding up to 67 % by 2019.