CMN 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iphone 3G, Whole Language, Language Shift
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3 pockets/ identifiers of mobile media: portability (phones, tablets, mobility (laptops, internet connectedness (cars etc. ) Provider to user: texted creating in order to service provider to contact their customers for plan updates or changes to your account etc. Popular because: cheap (easy to set up, numbers were already on the phones, and people liked it, competition (different cellphone companies and manufacturers creating new plans, revived the competitive aspect of cellphones) Phones as a platform for other things (see add-ons ) Reason to always have your phone on you. Games, ringtones, tv voting, other languages: how to make phones more portable and more desirable as an everyday use including the potential for different uses and innovations. Based on sms: brower interface online, but accounts were created by phone number, (tweets were texted to your feed), people could also choose to receive your texts or not.