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What's Your Tech IQ? (Take The Test Here)

Andy C

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What's Your Tech IQ? (Take The Test Here)

You may think you’re a tech-spert, but would you know the duration of the longest phone call ever made? Or how to boost signal on your smartphone?

We recently collated a list of common myths and misconceptions about tech, along with a combination of facts and stats (some true and some false) and polled 2,000 people to see how many questions the average person would answer correctly

So far, not a single person has managed to get a perfect 10/10!

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The 'Tech IQ' Test

So, do you think you’ve got what it takes to beat the 2,000 respondents who failed to achieve 10/10? If so, then choose true or false for the following questions, and test you Tech IQ today. (Answers can be found at the bottom of the page).

1. The longest phone call ever made was 54 hours long?
A. True
B. False

2. More megapixels mean a better camera?
A. True
B. False

3. 3G uses less data than 4G?
A. True
B. False

4. The World Record for the fastest time to type an SMS message on a QWERTY keyboard (264 characters) is 56.5 seconds?
A. True
B. False

5. The first mobile phone call was made in 1973?
A. True
B. False

6. As of 2017, there have been 1 billion smartphones shipped globally each year?
A. True
B. False

7. A smartphone has been invented that has a built-in radiation detector?
A. True
B. False

8. Modern smartphones are around 25,000 times faster than the computers that help to put man on the moon?
A. True
B. False

9. The world’s largest functioning smartphone measures 4.57 x 3.42 x .74m?
A. True
B. False

10. The first SMS message ever sent was to wish someone “Merry Christmas”?
A. True
B. False

'Tech IQ' Test Answers:

  1. The longest phone call ever made was 54 hours long – TRUE
    According to Guinness World Record, the longest ever phone call for a team of two was 54 hours and four minutes long and was made in 2012.

  2. More megapixels mean a better camera – FALSE
    Camera quality is more to do with the quality of the lens and sensor. More megapixels do mean a higher resolution image, however unless you’ve zoomed in or plan on printing the image, you probably won’t notice the difference.

  3. 3G uses less data than 4G – FALSE
    4G doesn’t use up any more data than 3G, however it’s likely that because of the difference in speed, users may eat up data quicker as they load more pages.

  4. The World Record for the fastest time to type an SMS message on a QWERTY keyboard (264 characters) is 56.5 seconds – TRUE
    Grace Pak from the USA typed a 264-character text on a QWERTY mobile phone, in 56 seconds. The sentence was “The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell (UK), who filed his patent for the telephone on 14 February 1876 at the New York Patent Office, USA. The first intelligible call occurred in March 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, when Bell phoned his assistant in a nearby room and said, 'Come here Watson, I want you.'”

  5. The first mobile phone call was made in 1973 – TRUE
    The first call made on a mobile phone was made in April 1973 by Motorola employee, Martin Cooper. He stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey.

  6. As of 2017, there have been 1 billion smartphones shipped globally each year – FALSE
    According to data from IDC the official figure is closer to 1.5billion.

  7. A smartphone has been invented that has a built-in radiation detector – TRUE
    The Pantone 107SH has a button that, when pressed, provides a reading of ambient radiation, which is accurate to within 20%.

  8. Modern smartphones are around 25,000 times faster than some of the computers that help to put man on the moon – FALSE
    *The Apollo Guidance Computer wasn’t particularly powerful by modern standards, with around 64Kbyte of memory, operating at 0.043MHz. However, an iPhone XS operates at around 2.39GHx, meaning the correct figure is actually closer to 55,500 times faster than the Apollo Guidance Computer.

  9. The world’s largest functioning smartphone measures 4.57 x 3.42 x .74m – TRUE
    The phone was a scaled-up version of the Samsung SCH-r40 and was unveiled in Chicago in 2009.

  10. The first SMS message ever sent was to wish someone “Merry Christmas” – TRUE
    The first text was sent by engineer Neil Papworth back in 1992. Using a computer, Neil sent the message to Vodafone Director, Richard Jarvis.

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