The New York Times just ran a great article about the enormous cell phone market for regional Mexican music.
Because fans of regional Mexican music tend to be working-class immigrants and their United States-born children, they don’t fit the typical musical consumption patterns of the digital age. They most likely don’t own a home computer, don’t use a credit card and don’t have broadband at home, all prerequisites for an iTunes account. Instead they buy prepaid phone cards with cash and use their cellphones as mobile, personal jukeboxes, often downloading ring tones from their cellular providers for about $3 each, three times the price from iTunes or Zune.
Yet another example of an unexpected use of mobile technology!
cell phones are forever changing and becoming more necessary every day. up until novemeber i used a regular cell phone i could only make calls and text message. when i bought the iphone it changed everything. i am a finance major and also a heavy trader. since im in school and work through out the day i can not watch different markets and updated news articles and corporate announcements, so being in school would sometime force me to lose money on sharp declining companies. When i learned how to use the iphone, i also got updated minute by minute articles from bloomberg media, auto stock watchers, and most importantly i can trade different securities right from the phone itself through etrade. like los pikadientes earning money and making their mark on music through a cellphone, i have also recently learned of the ever growing importance of cell phones and how they can effectivley change our lives through my ability to make money while learning in class and during other activities i do during the day
Developments in technology have always aimed at becoming smaller and more efficient. The development of the iphone would be a great topic for sociological research. Not even Steve Jobs could have imagined the explosion of developing applications for the iphone platform. The downside to this is the complaint that everyone without an iphone notices and those with one are oblivious to. The more time you spend with your eyes glued to the iphone, the less time your eyes are open and aware of the things that are literally going on right around you. As a tool for traders, travelers, and those on the go there is clearly no comparison. But where do we draw the line between those uses and the not so important ones like “GottaGo” – It’s an app designed to get you out of a bad date or an awkward conversation. You can use GottaGo to ring you up with a fake phone call that looks real to your unsuspecting date. All you have to do is set the time like you would an alarm and it will call you, with faked caller ID and everything. It’s a little sick no?
new technology brings us many advantages, i am amazing that cell phone right now could be developed as a small computer that people can do everything using that. i am using a regular cell phone which is used for make a phone calls and make text massage, and my friend is using an iphone that he could search online using it the difference is both of us on the history class, the class is running a movie, he uses iphone to search more information about that movie, so he know what’s going on about the movie and he got a good mark on the summary about the movie….