Are Our Handphones the Key?

Today almost everybody, including schoolchildren, carries a mobile phone. In fact, mobile phone users in Malaysia have reached the five million mark, surpassing fixed-line users at 4.6 million.

Mobile phones have not just become a must-have item due to their affordable price, but also due to their extensive features such as short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), built-in digital camera, games, Internet browser, MP3 player, and mini personal digital assistant (PDA).

Personally, besides making and receiving calls, the only other function I use on my Nokia 8910i is SMS. With broadband and Skype at home and at the office, I am finding it harder and harder to justify dialing out. In other words, my "handphone" (mobile phone in Malaysian speak) is more for receiving calls which have been increasingly replaced with SMSes of late!

Wi-Fi phone, ala Motorola's CN620, perhaps..

All hail the iPhone!

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