An edition of Constant touch (2013)

Constant touch

a global history of the mobile phone

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a global history of the mobile phone

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Icon, Distributed to the trade in the USA by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Language
English
Pages
275

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Cell phones, History

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Cover of: Constant Touch
Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone
2013, Icon Books, Limited
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Constant touch
Constant touch: a global history of the mobile phone
2013, Icon, Distributed to the trade in the USA by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
in English - Revised and updated edition.
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

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 è Mobile, Männer 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?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270) and index.

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London, Minneapolis, Minn

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
384.5309
Library of Congress
TK6570.M6

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 275 p.
Number of pages
275

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OL27160242M
Internet Archive
constanttouchglo0000agar
ISBN 10
1848315074
ISBN 13
9781848315075
OCLC/WorldCat
962883094, 815366372

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