5 Outrageous Mobile Phone Rumours that People Actually Believed!
Did you know that a duck’s quack doesn’t echo? Or that feeding pigeons rice makes them blow up? No, of course not! There are thousands of myths out there which prove just how gullible people can be- are you one of them? How many of these crazy mobile phone rumours have you believed? Go on, admit it…
1. Charging Phone in Microwave
This is one myth that has been circulating for some time- only made worse by the infamous trickster 4Chan telling us about the magical iPhone 6 feature called ‘Wave’.
Running out of juice? No problem- just pop it in the microwave for a quick blast. Fingers crossed it will emerge with a full charge. Alternatively, it could end up like this…
2. A Nokia 1100 Can Break into Banks
One of the biggest phone rumours of the noughties was that the good old Nokia 1100 could be used to hack people’s bank accounts.
After hackers claimed that the phone could be reprogrammed to transfer money from other people’s bank accounts, the price of a Nokia 1100 handset shot up to an incredible $32,000!
3. iOS Makes your Phone Waterproof
OK, so if you are in possession of a Samsung Galaxy S5, a Note 4 or a smartphone from the Sony Xperia Z range, the idea of having a waterproof might not be quite so ridiculous.
But for those of you who downloaded an iOS update in the last year, you may have been surprised to realise that the Apple software doesn’t, in actual fact, make your iPhone waterproof. Unfortunately this guy found out only too late…
4. Unlock your Car with your Phone
If you’ve ever locked your keys in the car by accident, you might have heard about this little trick. Rumour has it that if you press the unlock button on a spare set of keys down the phone, the radio waves emitted will instantly unlock your car. Except, in reality, this doesn’t happen.
So next time you accidentally lock your keys in your car, you might want to use your phone to call a locksmith instead…
5. Your Phone is Indestructible
While a number of iPhone and Samsung users will already know that phones are very much destructible, those with slightly more old school handsets might boast a little more confidence.
Remember the Nokia 5210? It’s a rubber clad mobile that can apparently bounce, swim and fly through the air, all without so much as a scratch. Well that’s what some users believed, until…
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