Monday, February 28, 2005
Mobiles 'part of social fabric'
The BBC reports the not unspprising fact that mobile phones are a critical part of our everyday lives. They also had a recent report that suggested that the only contacts book that people had was in their phones, and that if they lost their phones then they would lose their friends too.
I think that the key issue with phone numbers is that there are one or two you know really well - your parents, your partner - and you can enter that as quickly as navigate a menu of names, so you do. But for your friends, you never know their numbers - we don't access people via numbers any more, thankfully; we look them up by name and dial them. This means having cool numbers is now no longer necessary, or even useful, and number portability isnot so vital for people.
The BBC reports the not unspprising fact that mobile phones are a critical part of our everyday lives. They also had a recent report that suggested that the only contacts book that people had was in their phones, and that if they lost their phones then they would lose their friends too.
I think that the key issue with phone numbers is that there are one or two you know really well - your parents, your partner - and you can enter that as quickly as navigate a menu of names, so you do. But for your friends, you never know their numbers - we don't access people via numbers any more, thankfully; we look them up by name and dial them. This means having cool numbers is now no longer necessary, or even useful, and number portability isnot so vital for people.
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