Mike: Over the past couple of years more so and any time, cell phone technology has advanced especially in the area of smart phones. Google is entering the race for the new open source android operating system. Apple’s introduced the I-phone and there's a slew of other new technologies coming down the pipe. We’re going to discuss that with Jack Kapica from the Globe and mail, thanks for joining us Jack.
Jack: Thank you Mike
Mike: What do you think the most significant advancement as far as cell phone technology over the past couple of years?
Jack: Well it’s obviously the smart phone what they call the 3G phone which includes email and web surfing along with your simple, what was it called? Telephone calls, that’s right. That I think is the most significant thing that happened and what it’s doing is it’s driving people to use their cell phones for that use, for internet working a lot more. They're not using their computers as much because I mean at a certain point of course that’s you could use for email and web surfing but now they’re putting it on the cell phones. So I mean I'm not least surprised that people are moving towards cell phone for that. The questions of course, who does and for what reasons? And the story you’re referring to is talking about the Japanese who’ve, something like half of them have do their surfing and email on their cell phone. This is of course way ahead of everybody else. I mean the Americans are still doing on their machines. However which interesting is find other third world countries are also doing a lot of their surfing and email on cell phones as well but they’re doing that for another reason, simply because they can't afford the big boxes they got nowhere to plug them in, the cell phone is easy slip in your pocket you know you’re within the range of the power and everything’s fine.
Mike: Well its interesting just how fast that’s advance as far as the email and web surfing and what kind of impact that will have just on other types of technologies including things like laptops and desktops. Will we be using those as much because we can do a lot of these things on cell phones which makes us a lot more I guess mobile being able to be anywhere?
Jack: Well I think it’s a cultural issue that we’re discussing here not really technological one. It’s what you feel most comfortable with carry on. Now the Japanese, culturally speaking, they are very anamorite of very small things. They like miniaturization. In fact I think the Japanese have been pioneering the way miniaturization. I mean they are now mad kin about things like cell phones but Americans are still more or less stuck on big desktops and laptops. Now this is not the least of surprising, Japanese has always been kin on small cars while Americans are very kin on big cars as you know. I don’t think there's many Japanese who run hammers at home but the you know the cell phone is also, there's another cultural difference to hear that the Japanese do blogging and internet surfing and so on and commenting online using social networks and so on are an extremely polite people. They do not think it seemly to flame anybody and if they ever feel like flaming anybody they just simply cut out the leave, as a result social networking sites, blogging sites and so on tend to be a lot more polite, a lot more civil and ultimately a lot safer place to be. So as a result you tend to feel a lot more comfortable going online that way. Does this make any sense?
Mike: It makes a lot of sense to me. Jack, I want to thank you for your insights into this and thanks for joining us
Jack: Thank you Mike
Mike: That was Jack Kapica from the globe and mail you can check out more of Jack’s fine work on globetechnology.com
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