Japan is showing one of the hottest new trends in cell phone use – reading. Today’s cell phones in Japan are filling with books, as users are enjoying reading on their tiny phone screens. Several mobile Web sites are offering novels of all sorts right there on their cells.
A few lines show up at a time, making users scroll quite often on their phone in order to enjoy their book. The screen here is only about half the size of a business card. The latest way to do this is that cell phone novels can be downloaded in short installments and then run on handsets.
This is probably one of the up and coming technologies for America as well. Who has time to sit at home and read a book? Along with the Kindle, which allows you to upload books in a flash and read anywhere that you might find yourself, the cell phone reading craze will offer flexibility, mobility and instant gratification.
Look for this technology to hit the American cell phone soon. It certainly beats mobile gaming and other features for intellectual pursuits!
When I was a kid I loved hearing my grandparents tell me how different the world was now then from when they were kids my age. I always tried to imagine a world without telephones, television, movies, cars, air travel, and who knows what else. In the past 40 years and even less, the world has changed again in even more incredible ways. Because of computers and mobile phones and other related devices the way we communicate, acquire information and entertain ourselves bears almost no resemblance to how those things were accomplished just a few decades ago. Back in the mid to late 1980s I actually read a book which supposedly explained why “You Do Not Need a Computer.” The book argued that there was very little a computer could do for you that you couldn’t do for yourself with just a nice pen and a pad of paper. Well we have certainly come light years from that moment in time.
