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related: communication, smartphone editing: [|Planeta.com]

In 2012 75% of the world has access to a mobile phone.

Buzzword Bingo
app - bluetooth - **cellphone** - communication - credit - foursquare - geolocation - geotag - hype - ipadio - iphone - landline - location - mobile - privacy - ** QR Code ** - skype - smartphone - SMS - telephone - tracking

Recommended Listening
[|The great Indian phone book] - On the day that telegram services are finally laid to rest, a landmark study documents how the mobile phone is bringing deep changes to Indian society and democracy.

Cellphone Literacy
Do you know how to block calls?

Headlines
[] [|Are guidebooks facing extinction?] [|Reflections on the Handheld revolution by 2014] http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/solar-screen-recharges-mobiles-on-the-go-20130227-2f4vv.html

Core Skills
Can you insert and remove the SIM Card?

Local Travel Movement
Do smartphones facilitate the discovery of local tips whilst travelling?

Smartphones could facilitate traveler-local interaction and an appreciation of all things local if ... and this is a big if ... locals know how to make effective use of services such as Foursquare. We should also pay attention to how locals are already using their cellphones.

An example. Ten years ago much of rural Mexico did not have telephone service, or the only phone was a shared public phone next to the mayor's office. Today much of the population - and particular the under 25 crowd - have cellphones.

If you really want to see smartphones used effectively, I'd propose the following research 1) Assess how cellphones are currently used in a locality 2) Provide face-to-face training, an introduction to services such as Foursquare

In other words, we have to build the capacity to build the capacity. If we don't bring locals up to speed (literally and figuratively) and learn from them what they would like visitors to discover, then our techno information will be quite superficial.

Recommended Listening
[|Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite: your modular mind] - Evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban argues the modular mind is much like a smart phone. [|The rise of geo-location] - The rise of smartphones has led to a massive increase in geo-location based services. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of providing your location? And in a geo-located world will we ever be off the grid? [|Ditching the Landline] - Have you ever thought about ditching your landline phone? It seems more and more people are disconnecting their landline phones and going mobile only - we'll find out how many and why. [|Mobile PNG] - The social impact of new technology - is the mobile phone helping the fractured population of Papua New Guinea to form a national identity? [|New mobile phone technology that can save rural lives] The software is freely available for Android enabled phones, and an early version can be downloaded from servalproject.org

Care
[|How to Dry Out a Cell Phone]

Quotes
Like them or loathe them, mobile phones are taking their place beside a map and compass as essential rucksack items. Until now it’s been about personal safety and making calls, but for a new generation of walkers, mobiles are becoming a source of information – even when out walking. [|Phone on, walk off]

We are the first generation to say 'I lost my phone.' - [|Melbourne International Comedy Festival]

Caveats
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SMS http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/programs/sms.htm

Questions
How can you send or receive text messages between a computer and a cellphone?

Misc [|Alcatel OT-105A manual] Alcatel OT-105A Official Page

 [|New mobile phone technology that can save rural lives - Bush Telegraph - ABC Rural]

http://www.servalproject.org/

Quotes
Today, almost three-quarters of the world's people carry a wireless phone. That activity generates immense commercial databases that reveal the ways we arrange ourselves into networks of power, money, love and trust. The patterns allow researchers to see past our individual differences to forms of behavior that shape us in common. Unlike a conventional land-line telephone, a mobile phone usually is used by only one person, and it stays with that person everywhere, throughout the day. Phone companies routinely track a handset's location (in part to connect it to the nearest cellphone tower) along with the timing and duration of phone calls and the user's billing address. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704547604576263261679848814.html

In Case of Emergency
We all carry our mobile phones with names and numbers stored in its memory. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this 'ICE' (In Case of Emergency) Campaign.

The concept of 'ICE' is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As mobile phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE' (In Case Of Emergency). The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones with patients but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognised name for this purpose.

In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialling the number you have stored as 'ICE'. For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2, ICE3, etc. http://www.bushwalkingholidays.com.au/newsletter.shtml

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