TY - BOOK AU - Agar,Jon TI - Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone SN - 9781848315075 (hbk.) AV - HE8635 .A33 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Icon KW - Cell phones KW - History N1 - 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? ER -