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40 years ago the first cell phone call was made by Martin Cooper of Motorola, and he called his chief rival, Joel Engel of Bell Labs, who was also working on developing a cell phone.

We've come along way since the first commercially available cell phone went on sale for $3,995, dubbed, "The Brick" (Motorola DynaTAC 8000X) which was 13x1.75x3.5inches and weighed 11 times more than the iPhone 3GS, and was like a anchor compared to the iPhone 5 which comes in at just 112 grams.

The Brick had a battery of letting a user talk for an astonishingly long time, 35 minutes.

Google Maps has become the top app in the App Store in a little over three hours after its release Wednesday, with over 10 million downloads as iOS users seek to dump their Apple Maps.

"We're excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world," said Jeff Huber, SVP of geo and commerce at Google.

The much awaited launch was well received by iOS users who had quickly found that the new Apple Maps that came with iOS 6 was not working as deisgned.

While most still have the mindset that being hacked involves your desktop or laptop computer, increasingly, its actually smartphones that are are giving up your secrets to intruders.

The newest trend for hackers is being spreadheaded by mobile apps which often collect and use personal and priviate information about you, sometimes in unintended and inappropriate ways along with harvesting your credit and debit card information stored in your phone's contact info or from the phone's cache from other legitimate purchased you've made.

Here's some striking statistics you should be aware of:

Apple has announced that it has sold over 3 million of its newest iPad and iPads Mini's, which is more than was sold during opening weekend of the previous iPad, or iPad 3 as some have called it.

Apple did not break down the numbers between the iPad fourth edition and the iPad mini.

News of this surpassed analyst expectation of between 1 and 1.5 million.

Apple launched the iPad mini to get back a segment of the market in the 8 inch tablet size dominated by Amazon and Google and to keep ahead of Microsoft's new 'Surface' tablet.