Top Ten: Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World.
Posted over on All About Symbian are my Top Ten Reasons Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World; the top three were…
- The first cameras required you to stand still while the picture was being taken. More than one hundred years later, you need to call ‘stop’ and have everyone freeze while your camera application opens up.
- The hip and cool thing to have in the 1950’s and 60’s was a transistor radio, with a tinny speaker, pushing out the hits of Dusty Springfield, Johnny Cash for all to hear. Now we’ve left the personal stereo era behind and are using our phones speakers to push out our achingly retro hip sounds… invariably of Dusty Springfield and Johnny Cash.
- The expense of the telegraph meant that messages were kept short. If you go over 160 characters today, you’ll still get charged double.
- At the start of any call, you’ll be shouting ‘can you hear me?’ and ‘yes, I can hear you’ while thinking isn’t it wonderful that we can use VoIP to call someone on a crackly line over the Atlantic ocean?
The rest of the list can found over at All About Symbian.
May 2, 2008; Links to my Articles;
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Top three? That’s four :P