subject: Mobile Phones Taking Connectivity To A New Level [print this page] There was life before the mobile phones arrived. Most certainly. But then it was not possible for a teenage daughter inform her worried parents back home that she is simply caught up in traffic and that would reach home in another 30 minutes or so. Neither was it possible to keep your boss informed regularly of the progress made when you are working away from office.
You will think twice or thrice before making that long pending call to your uncle staying at Worcestershire as the costs involved are intimidating. The list of such possibilities is seemingly endless.
But the arrival of mobile phones changed all that. Everyone now carries a handset that, at the very least, can receive and make calls. To say that mobile phones changed the way we live, interact and conduct business, would be stating the obvious. The Nokias, the Samsgungs, the LGs, the HTCs, Apple iPhones, and Blackberries have combined together ensured that connectivity remains the least of our problems irrespective of where we are and where to we need to connect to .
According to one data released recently, in the UK alone there are about 76 million mobile phones in use currently. Put together in 2008, these mobile handsets made about 111 billion minutes of calling. Aren't these figures staggering. Supporting these mobile phone handsets and the network carriers O2, Orange, 3 Mobile, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Virgin are a plethora of cheap mobile phone deals. Now, these mobile phone deals come to you in different forms contract deals, SIM only, SIM free, and Pay as You Go deals.
These deals have been very successful in lowering the prices of the handsets and the network connection. Now, it is very much possible to obtain a Blackberry, HTC, Motorola Samsung or Nokia smartphone for anything ranging between 20 to 100.
