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In this ultra modern-age, we cannot imagine our lives without a Smartphone. Over the past few years, they have become a kind of addiction. Our day starts with mobile phones and ends with them. But how well do you know that favourite friend in our pocket?

Here’re a few amazing facts about mobile phones that you probably did not know:

1. Martin Cooper, engineer of Motorola made the first call from a mobile phone on April 3, 1973, on the streets of New York. More surprising is that he called on of his biggest rivals in the sector; engineer Joel Engel, from AT&T, just before giving a press conference to announce that he made the call first time from a mobile phone.
2. The first “Smartphone”, Ericsson GS88 “Penelope” model came in the market in the year 1997.
3. We all know about Nokia 1100, but very people are aware of this fact that Nokia 1100 was the bestselling electrical gadget in history with more than 250 million pieces sold.
4. Having an addiction to mobile phones is called nomophobia. It is very common in the present period. Around 200,000 million human beings are suffering from this phobia and as the fear of certain people who are afraid to leave their home without their mobile phone.
5. “Ringxiety” is a term, under which people get the feeling of hearing the phone when it is actually not ringing, and another one called, “phubbing“ that describes the behaviour of a person who ignores everything around him due to the use of the mobile phone.
6. Data says that on average, we check our mobile phone about 150 times a day. It is very likely that people who are suffering from nomophobia do this a lot more often than average, data says that we check our phones every 6 minutes on average.
7. You will shock to hear but it is a fact that there are more mobile phones than people in our world because the number of people who have a mobile phone in the world is very high. Each user has about 1.5 phones on average that means the number of mobile lines is located close to 7,500 million, and the world is populated by 7,350 million people.
8. In the year 2012 Apple created history after selling more than 340,000 iPhones on a daily basis, which are around 4 per second.
9. If you are health concise and take extra effort for hygiene, and then it is bad news for you. You need to be careful while using your mobile phone because a mobile phone holds 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
10. Apart from bacterial infection radiation is another big issue with mobile phones. These radiations can cause insomnia, confusion, headaches, ringxiety, nomophobia, telephone phobia, and frigensophobia.
11. It may sound odd in some ways, but it is a fact that you can charge your phone by using urine, scientists developed it.

Life as an entrepreneur is full of challenges. Sometimes, it looks like you do not even have time to take your meal or take a breath. It is important to keep yourself healthy and fit while maintaining your dream.

Here is the advice on developing the habits every entrepreneur needs for a healthier lifestyle:

• Make your Schedule

Schedule your doctor appointments, date nights with your significant other and important business meetings. We cannot achieve our best possible versions when we are suffering from personal health issues. Make a weekly plan and include an exercise block, mainly at the same time each day.

• Sleep is the Foundation

We cannot deny from this fact that rest is our foundation to maintain fitness routines and function at our peak performance level as an entrepreneur. Schedule your sleep for a fixed time period. Healthy sleep can help you keep your waistline under control. It also boosts your creativity, productivity and energy levels. To ensure you are getting enough quality sleep, don’t work in your bedroom. Work only at the office, read on the couch and use your bed only for sleep.

• Take care of Diet

Healthy food is the first need for a healthy body. But in a hectic schedule, entrepreneurs hardly get time to take care of their diet.

The hardest part of eating healthy is the time it takes to cook healthy meals. You save your time by cooking all your food that are used as snacks on Sunday and then store it in a tight container. This way, you don’t have to think about what to eat every time you come home. It will cut the possibility of eating fast food.

• Eat Clean Meals

The meals you make must contain protein, vegetables, and eight healthy fat or crab. Eat chicken, salmon, and eggs hold a lot of protein. If you want to gain healthy fat, take avocados, almonds, and olive oil.

• Control Your Portions

Don’t over think the number of times you should be eating in a day. The people whole eat every three hours, they end up overeating, thinking that they are being healthy. Instead, eat when you get hungry but focus on your portion size. Each meal should b the size of a fist to fist and a half. Eating healthy is good but eating more than limit is not injurious.

Steve Jobs says to hold walking meetings Instead of sitting at the card talking, get some activity in while conducting business. Walk to your favourite lunch spot; invest in a treadmill or standing desk.

To put it simply: Sleep, exercise and nutrition are essential if you are serious about building a profitable, sustainable, scalable business. A lot of entrepreneurs overwork them and never get sleep, or they complain that they are too busy to take care of themselves.

Make your health a priority so you can make a better decision. Pamper yourself and lookout for new ways to make money and develop your business.

Every year, 25 November is observed as International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to spread awareness for women’s safety. Still, the number of incidents and crime rate against women are increasing especially in the metro cities where women have to stay out for long. As per the report of Cornell University, around 85 percent of women had faced some or the other kind of harassment before moving out of their teenage years.

As women have to travel late at night sometimes, it is vital for them to stay alert and safe. The government takes major steps to ensure women’s safety. These days, Smartphones are going mainstream and are supporting us to improve our lives in different ways. Even in women’s safety, they can play a major role in avoiding untoward incidences.

So, on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we are presenting here some amazing mobile apps that women should consider installing on their smart phones:

• Women Safety

Women Safety sends an instant message to the emergency numbers and emails to preconfigured contact email IDs with the location and a link to Google Maps. In order to add more valuable information to the sender, it captures two pictures from the phone’s camera from the front camera and the back camera, along with a video or audio clip.

1. bSafe

bSafe provides the guardians and friends a channel by which they can know the live location of the user. It also allows you to leverage the SOS service in distress situations that will send the message along with GPS location to all the emergency contacts. Besides, it records and sends audio and video messages to the guardian group.

2. My SafetyPin

If you are stuck at a crossroad and looking for the best optimal and safe route to your destination My SafetyPin works great. In case, you are caught in an unfamiliar or unsafe location, it will send alerts to family friends who would track you then.

3. Himmat Plus

Launched by Delhi Police, Himmat Plus was is a highly recommended safety app for women. If you are moving along and facing unpredictable issues and emergencies especially when they move around alone, you must use this app.

The moment you feel unsafe, select the panic button so that your precise location will be instantly shared with the Delhi Police unit along with audio or video content.

4. Chilla

A wonderful women safety app, Chilla can detect the scream of women in danger, even if the phone is in her purse or pocket. It can easily be triggered by only a shrill scream or by pressing the power button 5 times. Once it is triggered, it sends a text to the guardian with location and automatically places a call.

5. Smart 24×7

Safety 24X7 helps the user to call the police by pressing the panic button. Besides, the option of calling some pre-designated contact is available on this app. If the GPRS does not work, the location is sent via SMS. Apart from calls, it also clicks photos and records audio-video of the situation.