Most mobile phones in this day and age have an option for predictive texting – a system whereby using the alphanumeric keypad on your phone, you can tap in messages one key press at a time, as opposed to the older way of hitting the “2” key twice to get a letter B, and so…
More infoIt often seems difficult to imagine yourself in a world without mobile phones, even if to all intents and purposes we were all doing exactly that not so long ago. But when you think about the prevalence in the present day of the cell phone, it is clear that if they were taken away tomorrow…
More infoThere was a time, and it was not too long ago, when the idea of a phone that takes pictures would have been the stuff of a James Bond storyline. Sure, it would be nice to have, we thought. But when you think about it, is a phone that takes photographs any more sensible or…
More infoThere is no disputing that for the best in technology, the user will need to pay a higher price. If you want a better mobile phone, you need to pay more for it. That’s just common sense. But if you aren’t greatly concerned about whether your phone can send email, surf the internet or provide…
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The environment is an important issue to a great many people, and any time that someone makes a political or lifestyle decision in the modern day, there is always an environmental question to answer. Certainly it comes into play with mobile phones, as when thrown away they can be a major environmental hazard, with many…
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Mobile phones were, not so long ago, something that only people with plenty of money would own. The image of the city banker with a mobile phone, yelling “Buy! Buy! Buy!” into his handset is one of the great cliches of the 1990s. In 2014, a mobile phone is one of the most commonplace things…
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In this day and age, just about everyone has a cell phone and there are so many models on the market that “brand loyalty” has become an issue. Some people change their mobile phone every few months, slavishly taking up every new development – phones get thinner, smaller, more colorful, more powerful and more desirable…
More infoAs technology develops to service a market hungry for the next innovation, there are always going to be people who are so struck by the brilliance of the new technology that they come to see it as a human need as important as oxygen, food or water. People develop addictions to technology which may not…
More infoith the popularity of text messages since the end of the last century came the birth – or at least the mutation – of “text speak“. This was a way of shortening words so that a message could be sent containing as much information as 160 characters would allow. For some people, it was a…
More infoBack when the idea of mobile phones for all was still a science-fiction idea, most of us would probably have imagined that the thing which would get cell phones into the “everyday accessory” category would be the way that they allowed you to make phone calls wherever you went in the world. However, it could…
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