You are out and about and your phone runs out of power – what are your options? Something you see a lot in Asia but not …
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Extended aerial pokes through the trees – extending network coverage to distant villages.
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Drive due south out of Kampala and in 70 kilometers or so you’ll arrive at the town of Kyotera, our research base for the next …
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Txting from the summit of Mt Fuji. Despite, or perhaps because of being the tallest mountain in Japan – 3776 meters, someone decided to put base …
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On the last night of my most recent trip to India spent an evening trying to understand India’s informal mobile phone repair culture by visiting …
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The second hand phone market in Ji Lin city is a history lesson in phone design, covering everything from the original brick-like Motorolas & Nokias …
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Mural in Kreuzberg, Berlin – mobile phone joins television as symbol of mindless consumerism.
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Top-up phone credit via vending machine. Remarkably graffiti-free for Berlin.
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