An iStorm in a teacup

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I had to laugh the other day when I caught the end of a film from the late 1980s - big hair and even bigger mobile phones. As time has passed, the size of mobile phones has decreased at the same rate as their sophistication has grown. At what point did a mobile phone metamorphose from a device that makes phone calls, to a multi-media handset that stops just short of making the tea?

Take the new iPhone for example. You can store and view photos and videos, listen to your favourite songs, surf the web, send emails, take pictures…oh, and you can also use it to call your mum. Our appetite for gizmos and gadgets is evident; over half a million iPhones were sold in the first weekend after it hit the shops. But what about those people who don’t want all-singing, all-dancing technology? What if you only want a phone, plain and simple, or you’re among the 21% of households who prefer not to have a mobile phone at all? The great thing about technology is that it is constant...

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