See ya later aggregator
Overheard: 12-year old standing on a street corner, talking into his cellphone: ‘Hey. I’m standing on a street corner. What are you doing?’
Being one of the minority of Western Europeans (less than 30%) who do not own a mobile phone – and now at the point in a 300-page translation on mobile data services where I’m certain it will never end – I can state with impunity that I shall live most contentedly without having access on a 5-inch screen to Dunkin Donuts coupons, Disney ringtones, value-added x, BSC, BTS, CDMA, SIM and roaming and WAP, hotspots, i-mode and B nodes and a further reminder of Microsoft’s ubiquity, m-commerce, -booking, -banking, -auctions, the latest cricket scores and pollen counts and hungry virtual pets, karaoke, GPS, pornographic SMS, low-res streaming videos, skins, logos, badges and battle mail Kung Fu, astral charts, intimate relationships with vending machines and parking meters, personal planners and a list of nearby pit stops, market alerts, spam alerts and weather reports, news flashes, MMS, UMTS, GPRS, MVNOs, an increased sense of urgency and reliance on a device that emits Beethoven’s 5th in polyphonic sound.
I shall stand on street corners, un-m-reachable. Leave a message.
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