Required Reading: TIME Releases "Wireless" Issue

Submitted by Kate Meersschaert on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 10:09am.
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TIME Magazine has released their "Wireless" issue and it should be REQUIRED reading for anyone developing for, thinking about or using a mobile device. The Qualcom-powered "Mobility Poll" found here as an interactive infographic should be a priority read. Pick-it-up, check-it-out, click-through and read-on for a few initial paragraphs of what will, I believe be the seminal state-of-the-mobile union...

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water; for millions, this is the first phone they’ve ever had. In the U.S., close to 9 in 10 adults carry a mobile, leaving its marks on body, mind, spirit. There’s a smart-phone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you’re going. Thumbs are stronger, attention shorter, temptation everywhere: we can always be, mentally, digitally, someplace other than where we are.

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Sharon Hsiao's picture
Sharon Hsiao Says:
Thu, 08/16/2012 - 5:29pm

yeh, i was just discussing the interactive infographics with Janice yesterday.
I think it'll greatly empower the mobile readers.

here's a cute little site, to create interactive infographics.
http://infogr.am/
might worth exploring a bit.


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Fred Rossoff Says:
Thu, 08/16/2012 - 11:47am

"A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon."

I know this is meant to sound triumphalist, but it's actually really depressing when you think about it.


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Daniel Um Says:
Thu, 08/16/2012 - 11:25am

Very good article! Thanks for share.