Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The future of mobile technology: learning 'on the run'? (04 Jul 2005) Mobile phones are used in Asia in strikingly innovative ways. In Japan, there have been stories of schoolgirls writing messages on scraps of paper, photographing them with their phones and then e-mailing them to friends. In Korea the third biggest national newspaper, Oh My News, gets most of its content from citizens who e-mail text stories or photos from their mobiles. Only a few steps behind, the UK seems to have developed an insatiable appetite for mobile technology. Mobile phones are replaced on average every 18 months, and a recent report from the consultancy mobileYouth found that one in three children aged between 5 and 9 owns a mobile phone: the average age of first phone ownership is now 8. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/vision/vision_01_04.htm Read 134 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Next Sustainability Wave (Book Excerpt)     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy