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Article: Battling for the palm of your hand - Mobile phones.(The changing mobile-phone business)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Just as mobile phones have changed dramatically in recent years, the industry that makes them is being transformed too
NEXT time you pick up your mobile phone, try to imagine how futuristic it would look to someone from ten years ago. Back then, mobile phones were far less sophisticated devices. Brick-like, they had tiny monochrome screens and ungainly protruding aerials, and they were only used for one thing: talking to other people. Today's latest models, in contrast, are elegantly shaped pocket computers. Your current handset may well have a large colour screen and a built-in camera; as well as being a telephone, it can send and receive text messages, and may ...