These days you can pretty much do anything on a mobile phone. From internet browsing to social networking, direct text communication and photo sharing to making travel plans and restaurant reservations, watching movies and listening to (and even making) music, and a whole lot more. In some countries, like Japan, people can even watch broadcast television on their mobiles.
We’ve reached a point in technical evolution where the mobile device is a handheld computer first and a telephone second. And as far as technology goes, nothing else has reached the same level of global saturation, with well over 50 percent of the world’s population now wired with a mobile phone.
The guy from IBM who told Apple’s Steves back in the day that no one would ever want a computer in their homes must really feel like a visionless asshole at this point. And if he doesn’t, he sure fucking should. Not only do people have multiple computers in their homes, they carry computers in their pockets.
Mobile phone have not only replaced land lines in many homes and helped techno-hipsters find each other while they’re out on the town, but they’ve been used to break news, fuel revolutions and keep an eye on public processes. The evolution of the mobile handheld is one of the most impressive advents of technology of all time, though it seems largely taken for granted by the generation who uses it most, probably because the technology has come of age along side the kids who adopt it the quickest. Even my generation, the oldest ages of X, has adapted pretty quickly to this marvel of modern science; we think nothing of taking out our iPhones, Blackberrys, Palms, etc. and tracking down our friends via GPS, making a restaurant, hotel or flight reservation, checking real time traffic and weather, or downloading some music.
Or, in this case, throwing a quick post up to a blog. There are mobile apps and SMS/MMS options for Tumbler, Blogger, in this case WordPress, and more, and because I’ve been dying to try it out ever since I installed the WP app on my BB Storm, I figured I’d wax philosophic on the impressive nature of mobile capabilities. But then again, you’re probably aware of all this anyway, so I’ll shut up about it.
Oh, and these photos? The Art Blakey record is what I was listening to when I wrote this, and I just thought the chrome 9 was some gangster ass shit to post for no reason in particular, except that I wanted to test the image posting capabilities of the WP Blackberry app from the phone’s camera and SD card gallery, respectively…
