Cell Phones

In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.

"Cell phones allowed people to connect on the go, and smartphones have transformed the way we share information. Discover the landmark shifts in phone technology-and the people-that have shaped modern communication"--

Mobile Phones and Tablets Repairs is a 364 page complete manual that answers all the basic and professional level questions for entrants into mobile computing devices technical support segment. The book takes the reader one step at a time, combining a strong theoretical knowledge base about mobile devices - how they function, description of their internal components, their internal electronics with tutorial on basic foundation electronics for repairs and merged it with descriptive easily practicable tutorials on both hardware and software related repair procedures for mobile phones and tablets. Information about cell phone hardware and software repair tools is covered with product listings and guides for success. If there is any complete guide-book on computer repairs ever known, then this book is the complete guide-book for mobile phones and tablets repairs! If you are seeking for a way by which you could exchange personal services for money, then this book is for you. It is a complete Do-It-Yourself Guide book. In book stores all over the world, there are hardly complete repair guides for mobile telephones and tablets repairs although you may find many for PCs. This book is for the young people, students, or anyone seeking for a good resource for practical learning towards self reliance. In this century, the age of mobile communication and computing, it is one of the hottest tech repair service segment. Through the pages of this book, a reader would train to become a great mobile phone technician with a brighter and faster earning potential than most PC technicians. What this book teaches is practicable towards becoming also, a good PC technician. The tutorials cover Microelectronic device dis-assembly and re-assembly, troubleshooting, BGA soldering, detailed electronics fundamentals, flash programming and many more. The book ends with a chapter of information on how to set up shop and efficiently manage a mobile repair services support center. Discover the secrets of mobile phone repair with this book!

In Cell Phones in the Classroom, mobile learning enthusiast Liz Kolb starts out by sharing case studies that illustrate practical ways teachers and administrators from schools around the world are using cell phones for classroom projects, homework assignments, and communication with parents. She also includes resources such as sample lesson plans, tutorials for mobile-supported web 2.0 tools, strategies for involving students without cell phones, and guidance on planning and preparation. After reading through the case studies and lists of web 2.0 resources, you ll be overflowing with ideas for your own classroom."

Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones offers a detailed ethnographic and anthropological examination of the social, cultural, linguistic and material aspects of cell phones. With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars, this is a truly global collection with rural and urban examples from communities across the Global North and South. Linking the use of cell phones to contemporary discussions about representation, mediation and subjectivity, the book investigates how this increasingly ubiquitous technology challenges the boundaries of privacy and selfhood, raising new questions about how we communicate.

95 percent of Americans own some kind of cell phone. It has become a tool that people feel lost without when forgotten at home or elsewhere. This volume comprehensively covers the origins and evolution of cell phone technology. Readers will consider its impact on society and future uses.

As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.