The FINANCIAL — I have just received an email on my iPhone from my friend who lives in New York, USA, thousands of miles from Tbilisi. The email said “I’m on the radio so switch on iTunes to listen to it.” In just one sentence you realize what the iPhone means to you, it has already become your computer and radio, one compact item that has already replaced much of your home technology.
Later I decide to record my friend’s show on my mobile, so the recorder is another application your mobile phone has, one more piece of technology attached to your mobile phone and a substitute for a tape recorder. While my friend is doing her radio show I decide to take some notes for her, of course with the notebook application in my mobile phone.
After the show was over, I contacted her via the Skype application on my iPhone, not even having to pay the additional costs of phoning from a landline. She advised me to download a game application from the online store and to listen to some music on YouTube.
Now I have games and music on my mobile, other substitutes for a music centre, online games or even just toys.
In the evening I decided to read my favourite book The Catcher in The Rye by J.D Salinger, I already have it on my mobile phone. However, before doing that I paid my utility bills via my mobile phone, which served as my wallet.
It indeed sounds funny, to have just one appliance which weighs a maximum 100 grams and incorporates all cutting edge technology in one.
The next day I decide to spend my time in a nice place near Tbilisi, I enter my maps application and find the roads and streets that lead to Mtatsminda Park, so my application has turned out to be quite comfortable and efficient and means there is no need for any paper maps.
I walk through the park in Mtatsminda, appreciate the beautiful view of Tbilisi, use my mobile phone to take a photo, which means I do not need camera at all, and again my mobile phone is there for me.
Later in the evening, I realise I am too dependent on my mobile phone, with news applications like New York Times, Financial Times, and BBC News I read everything on my mobile phone, I take photos and instantly upload them on facebook, I chat with my friends via Skype, travel around the city with my map application, and download the latest music and games. Moreover, by the codes of articles published at The FINANCIAL, through my iPhone application I can quickly scan them and read it online.
However, you should not forget that being so addicted to technology causes insomnia for many.
Sadly or alternatively – luckily for me, I am not the only one so addicted to my mobile, hundreds of thousands are like me.
According to data provided by Geocell, from its total subscribers, who number up to 2 million, 43.7% have Nokia brand mobile phones, after which comes Samsung – 18.56%, followed by Sony Ericsson – 11.46%.
Only 0.27% of Geocell subscribers have the Apple iPhone, while 0.14% have a Blackberry. The other mobile phone brands connected to the Geocell network are as follows: Motorola (8.07%), Siemens (4.89%), LG (2.48%), CECT (1.19%), ZTE (0.71%), Panasonic (0.58%), and other.
In 2010 in Tbilisi only, up to 10,000 iPhones were sold according to iPhone+, Go! Electronics and Elit Electronics.
And as well as all the functions listed above you can of course phone your friends and send messages from your mobile phone, the initial purpose of its creation. So the next question arises – what else can be added to your mobile phone?
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