Record breaking mobile phones

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Who would have thought that the mobile phones that you can buy from a Vodafone Store Near Me such as https://kingcommunications.ie/vodafone-stores-near-me/ could be record breakers? Well there are over 200 entries in the Guinness Book of World Records that relate to mobile phones. Here are just a few of them for you to take a look through.

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  • The largest collection of mobile phones is recorded by Carsten Tews from Germany. In the collection there are 1,563 different mobile phones with the oldest one being 33 years old.
  • Many of us remember the days when mobile phone signals weren’t that strong and you might have to hang out of the window to be able to hear the person you are calling. Now that technology has improved we are able to make phone calls in even some of the remotest of locations. In May 2007, Rod Baber proved this by making a phone call on the top of Mount Everest at over 8,848 metres above sea level.

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  • The most popular phone ever sold over 250 million units and was the Nokia 1100. This record was recorded in 2003 and has yet to be beaten.
  • Mobile phone games are incredibly popular and you can find everything from the classic card games and sake right through to more modern versions of strategy and brain training games. However there is one game that has dominated the charts since 2010 – Tetris. This game has been downloaded over 100 million times by October 2010.