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Are mobile phones truly an exclusive fashion accessory? What does your handset or accessories say about you? Do you attach stigma such as social status to certain mobile phones products or is stigma attached to how these products are used – like caviar in the world of delicatessen?

What positive and negative affects do mobile phones cause in social situations? All too often I see groups of kids on a table in a restaurant – spending their time texting, bluetoothing or downloading – instead of interaction vis-a-vis. It begged the question: Are mobile phone manufacturers focusing their product development efforts too intently on software driven media platforms? If so, is the new gen mobile phone computer simply a hardware extension of the viral social media fad that is facebook, MySpace, Digg, Twitter and StumBl, etc?

Interesting…however, on the flip side, there are the over talkative types, who for some reason manage to natter on the phone to their boyfriend(s), and also to their best friend sat opposite, whilst giving the order to the waiter and finishing an SMS on the spare pay as you go phone. This excitable tech-socia gadegetrat may jut words out like a flapping seagull desperateley trying to attack custard whilst it is being churned by the electronic whisk – and in some cases give the impression that her face, underneath the lavish layers of foundation, could possibly looks somewhat like the rollover from a meat raffle! They may utter things like:
‘Who answered?’, ‘What did he text?’, ‘I’ve barred her!’, ‘Let’s phone jack them!’, “You seen the new ____ handset that looks like a torch and turns into: ‘a zippo lighter?’, ‘A DVD player?’, ‘A Nintendo MINI-WII-MK II????’”. Well how about the one that slides out into a “Bluetooth tea tray that boils the kettle remotely from where you are standing?”

So…
Can you see the potential usage for a mobile phone so small? Will there be a more practical degree of phone functionality for the new world of Konnectivity?

Could you imagine the manufacturers of these new mobile phone models adapting the core basic device functions to control other house hold appliances? Or perhaps buy special keys such as barcodes or infrared signatures that flash up from the LCD screen or Bluetooth device? Could these potential mobile phone features be used to scan into, for instance, a cars ignition?

By simply phoning certain telephone or connecting to the required data centre – could it be possible to purchase (pay as you go style) a 4 hour licence to instantly drive your any car you walk up to on the street? Just imagine being handed the electronic laser keys for the new Mazda MX10 parked 5 feet away from you! Imagine simply waving your handset across the digi lock transponder (with the use of mobile phone top up, or credit downloads) and stepping into the vehicle.

Imagine being signed up as the named driver for the next few hours that you have booked and have all financial agreements and legal documents granted by the exclusivity of your life and a touch of a button!

Carrying your mobile phone handset would be like carrying your passport, your drivers ID, your ‘Heart Condition Travel Insurance
documents, payroll and bank account all in a single secured device!

Travelling from A to B would be amazing! It would be like the bicycles in Amsterdam! Pick one up and drop it off like trolleys at the supermarket! Except this would be with cars! And many types of cars! Imagine using your mobile phone to step into every car you can think of whilst travelling across town! Get in on the clubs VIP list, get discounts at top restaurants and much much more!!!!

This seems extremely futuristic, but scarily not an absolutely absurd notion! If mobile phones do develop into such flamboyance then the mobile phone will become the most desired fashion accessory and status symbol of the decade!!!!

- On the flip side – You never know! Soon the purpose of a mobile phone could be forgotten! Like a teenybopper singing along to that new hit that you recogise to be the butchered rendition of a fundamentally solid tune that came out 15 years ago!
- Ignorance in ten years time could spin the mobile phone fashion back round to its full cycle! We may hear statements of grandeur like: – “Wow this phone is soooo cool! You can actually talk to someone straight through this speaker receiver! This is so simple and easy to use – it’s totally retroically worth coining up a new buzz word phrase for, like: ‘This is rit! Rit in stone!!’”

Yes the era of the noughties has brought about the explosive cannon ball of next-gen mobile phones!

In fact, mobile phones grew so popular a few years back that mobile phone manufacturers had to wise up! The market was saturated!

Now companies tend to limit the sheer variety of next gen mobile phone handsets and focus on quality.

Like a lost text message- this new digital era is lost on people like me.

As a teenager of 17 with my very first Nokia 3210 (I must admit I felt a bit dapper) and my instant addiction to the most frustrating mobile phone game in the world (Yes you guessed it: Snake!) I could not have possibly invisioned the boom of rapid celluar division that has become today’s mobile phone market!

I see eleven year olds glammed up in their war paint entering the nearest Starbucks attempting to lure in the older boys with their glitzy kooky dress sense and of course the latest and shiniest accessory of social statement waving in the air. “Yes…I got this! It comes out in the high street shops in two days time, but you see Rhonda I’m going out with Loz who’s mates with Nat who I know really has a thing for me and he works at this depot where he can get me everything before anyone!” Haha – I have it first! And it’s because I’m popular and everyone loves me oh and hold on I gotta stop talking about myself for one second because someone’s trying to skype me on my new G-Tan-F 80 mobile phone handset which actually beams UV rays out of its liquid based silicone screen to tan your face as you have that 2 hour skype conversation with Gary from Maths class! And it really works – see?” And oh my have you seen the new Teenteets Colfast Bluetooth indieGO hands-free headset that truthfully treats and whitens your teeth better than any expert cosmetic dentist?”

Now, I may jest, however, if the continuing boom in handsets sales is to spur as rapid a development as the last 5 years in the mobile phone industry, then these concepts might not seem so radical!!!! Scary huh?

I just find it very amusing that 10 years ago hardly anyone but the privileged had mobile phones. Nowadays mobile phones are so accessible that most people have on average about four handsets laying about doing nothing whilst the latest funky new mobile phone upgrade kindly lands itself in the post every few months.

Cars and houses used to be a social symbol, now in the fast paced life we live in, where no-one wants to be pinned down, information flies freely, to be intercepted,to be syndicated, to be used abused, confused and amused – and as strength in communication is the key to all social power, the mobile phone is the definitive tool and is becoming the ultimate fashion statement in the next era to come. In the future you could lose your handset and at the same time lose your whole identity. But be able to buy it all back from the mobile phone providers, who may conveniently store the only licensed backup copy of yourself in their virtual floating database, for –of course- a standard lifetime contract with fixed fees. Can mobile phone manufacturers make all mobile phone battery packs, head sets and chargers environmentally friendly? In the future, will mobile phone handsets be able to operate from sustainable and renewable sources?
If technology advances in this direction – then who is to think that mobile phone text messages will not become the new form of sustainable currency? Watch who you buy from, because you might have to flash more than a few digits!

Well ranting over! …Until the next exciting babelicious episode of utter mobile phone dogwaffle.

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