We've been bowled over by the insightful comments coming through from our recent post mobile phones: how do you use yours?. From the usual keeping in touch, alarms and alerts, you've given us tales of budding photography, phones and wrist watches roled into one, and even the futuristic suggestion that we ditch our mobiles and have tariffs for telepathic communication. Wow.
The future of mobile phones and how we use them is a topic that fascinates us folks at The Feed and since the start of 2009, we've seen a flurry of newsy stuff that shows the shape of things to come.
Mobile phones are entering an age of progressively more powerful chips. This has exciting implications for web browsing through your mobile. With recent statistics showing that Orange users alone are accessing a mind-boggling 166 million social networking pages on their mobile every month, imagine what that figure could grow to if the average browsing speed was improved.
With this in mind, it's not difficult to understand why we're becoming a two-mobile nation. A recent poll shows that most of us have two handsets, usually one for work and one for personal use. Perhaps this is simply another indicator of our increasingly 24/7 society, but in the face of economic hiccups, we're clearly not willing to give up our handsets.
So it's unsurprising that recent government legislation now allows us to use mobiles in most hospital wards. With the exception of intensive care units and the like, Parliament has recognised how important it is for patients to stay in touch with their family and friends. Perhaps this is all the evidence we need to show that a mobile is more than just technology: it connects us to loved ones with an unrivaled immediacy, that is important when life moves so quickly.
As it's Friday, we found a fun video (above) that traces the history of the mobile phone, from as far back at 1985.
Enjoy :)
