Ever felt naked without it?

I was reading an article the other day (yes in the printed media) which got me thinking. How did we all used get by in our daily lives without mobile phones? The Chief Executive of Ericsson (the world’s largest maker of telecoms network gear) reckons that the number of people with a mobile phone has risen to 3.6 billion out of a current world population of 6.7 billion. The mobile phone or not so mobile ‘Portable bricks’ as they were back in the mid 1980’s have now become such an integral part of our lives. Used for all manner of applications from straightforward phone calls and texting to surfing the internet, satellite navigation and applying for jobs on the move. The very next day after reading the article I managed to leave home without my phone and have to say felt rather naked without it.

Colin Gilby