28 November 2006

Upward Mobility : Ultrafast networks and whizzy features are about to turn your cellphone into—well, your right arm

Park Hyun-A is someone you might want to watch.

A 21-year-old student at Korea University in Seoul, she'd like to be a marketing executive for a telecom or fashion company someday and enjoys playing matchmaker for friends looking for the perfect mate.
But what's really intriguing is the way Park uses her Samsung mobile phone. Each day she waves it over a reader at a turnstile in the train station to pay her fare.
Then, during the long ride to school, she flips open the screen and rotates it 90 degrees to watch satellite tv.
On the same screen, Park pages through an e-book version of Joachim de Posada's Don't Eat the Marshmallow...Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life. She sends an average of 66 text messages a day, snaps pictures of cute guys and sends them to friends, and plays an online game in which she runs a virtual fruit store. "I can hardly think of my life without my handset," Park says.


Alors, demain, tous mobiles ?!!


BusinessWeek.com (l'article complet)

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