Constant Touch : A Global History of the Mobile Phone /
Agar, Jon,
Constant Touch : A Global History of the Mobile Phone / Jon Agar. - Revised and updated edition. - x, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index.
pt. 1. World in bits. What's in a phone? -- Save the ether -- The cellular idea -- pt. 2. Different countries, different paths to mobility. Born in the USA -- The Nordic way -- Europe before GSM : La Donna eÌ Mobile, MaÌnner sind nicht! -- GSM : European union -- Digital America divided -- Mob rule : competition and class in the UK -- Decommunisation = capitalist power + cellularisation -- Japanese garden -- For richer, for poorer : India and China -- pt. 3. Mobile cultures. Txt msgs -- TxtPower -- Two organisations in the Congo -- M-Africa -- The Nokia way - to the Finland base station! -- Mobile phones as a threat to health -- Cars, phones and crime -- Phone hacking : a very British scandal -- Phones on film -- pt. 4. Smartphones. Intimately personal computers -- 3G : a cellular world made by standards -- Apple -- Apple's rivals -- Blood on the smartphone -- Smartphone culture -- Cellular war -- The revolution will not be mobilised -- Oases of quiet -- Perpetuum mobile?
9781848315075 (hbk.) 1848315074 (hbk.)
Cell phones--History.
HE8635 / .A33 2013
Constant Touch : A Global History of the Mobile Phone / Jon Agar. - Revised and updated edition. - x, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index.
pt. 1. World in bits. What's in a phone? -- Save the ether -- The cellular idea -- pt. 2. Different countries, different paths to mobility. Born in the USA -- The Nordic way -- Europe before GSM : La Donna eÌ Mobile, MaÌnner sind nicht! -- GSM : European union -- Digital America divided -- Mob rule : competition and class in the UK -- Decommunisation = capitalist power + cellularisation -- Japanese garden -- For richer, for poorer : India and China -- pt. 3. Mobile cultures. Txt msgs -- TxtPower -- Two organisations in the Congo -- M-Africa -- The Nokia way - to the Finland base station! -- Mobile phones as a threat to health -- Cars, phones and crime -- Phone hacking : a very British scandal -- Phones on film -- pt. 4. Smartphones. Intimately personal computers -- 3G : a cellular world made by standards -- Apple -- Apple's rivals -- Blood on the smartphone -- Smartphone culture -- Cellular war -- The revolution will not be mobilised -- Oases of quiet -- Perpetuum mobile?
9781848315075 (hbk.) 1848315074 (hbk.)
Cell phones--History.
HE8635 / .A33 2013