"Golden" Technology
Mobile phone industry became a gold mine for many companies. The statistics that knows it all informs that today it is the biggest segment of the consumer electronics market. In other words, mobile phones are the most popular thing among all the electronic devices. In big cities every one out of two citizens has at least one mobile phone.
It will be excessive to say that mobile operators today are among the richest and most influential companies in the world. They are actively used by businessmen and average people. Mobile communication goes cheaper every year and becomes more and more attractive. Thus, mobile operators obtain more and more customers. Local telephony becomes very unpopular.
Such prevalence of mobile phones makes their use extremely effective in advertising. People get a number of SMS with persistent offers to buy something. Sometimes it is really annoying.
Mobile phone producers invent more and more new technologies every day. They make it a universal thing that replaces other electronic devices on the market. Playing MP3 tunes made it a worthy rival to i-pods and music players. Introducing Internet technologies they start to replace common PCs and modems. You can now make pictures of good quality and share them immediately.
Upcoming technologies are far beyond the limits of imagination. It seems mobile phones decided to crowd out everything else.