Richard - thanks for sending this around. However, this is so very
American-centric ;) Clive clearly has not visited India much, the
fastest-growing mobile market today. With per-second billing there
for phone calls, people are chatting away much more so than they are
texting. And interruptions are fine - the social tolerance for an
unannounced call is very different in other parts of the world. This
would be a very rich field of inquiry - the prevalence of calling and
social uses of it and how they change with different tariff schemes
and cultural contexts. Wonder wether anyone has written intelligently
about this aspect of phone use particularly. It certainly makes a huge
difference in regard to designing appropriate mobile services!
Thanks!
Katrin
On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:30 AM, <richard.l...@telenor.com> <richard.l...@telenor.com
> wrote:
Dear all,
Here is an interesting piece by Clive Thompson on voice calls, etc.
It is interesting that a device that was originally designed to talk
into has morphed into a texting, picture taking, net-surfing, all
purpose electronic item.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/st_thompson_deadphone/
Rich L.
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