– TTP MD Tom Milbourn said the handsets of the future won’t be ‘swiss army knives’, but more like phone plus one – a phone plus a camera, a phone plus web browser and so on. He also predicted that new mobile applications are likely to be adaptations of successful desktop programmes like iTunes and Napster.
— Incidentally, at lunch I met a telecoms guy working in Kuwait. He told me that in conservative Kuwaiti families the convention is that teenage girls and boys don’t mix, but kids are using bluetooth to introduce themselves by discreetly sending their phone numbers to each other. “Do you want to receive incoming item ‘possible love’?” I rather liked that. Online networks like MySpace are increasingly being used for the same thing.
This article originally appeared in MediaGuardian.
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