Literature Review

       I found a book – “Mobile Internet for Dummies” by Michael J. O’Farrell (and four others), a journal – “Comparing Internet and Mobile Phone divides” by Ronald Rice and James Katz and a website - http://soni2006.hubpages.com/hub/Effects-of-cell-phone--mobile-phone-use-on-our-brain-and-memory. I will evaluate these sources and show the main points I will use in the report.

     The book “Mobile Internet for Dummies” by Michael J. O’Farrell has five quotes I have found to use in my report.

·         “Gartner Group estimates that consumers around the globe will spend $32.2 billion on music for their handsets by 2010, an increase from $13.7 billion in 2007. Those numbers represent an incredible growth rate” (O’Farrell, et al. 2008, p259).

·         “Gartner Group expects that by 2010 more than 1 billion camera phones will be shipped worldwide” (O’Farrell, et al. 2008, p260).

·         “Admit it: Sending a text message to vote for American Idol is fun. Although standard text messages cost only 15 to 20 cents apiece, they add up fast if you’re a power messenger” (O’Farrell, et al. 2008 p266).

·         “If you subscribe to a service for ringtones and wallpaper with premium-rate text messaging billing, it can cost $5 to $10 per subscription alone”  (O’Farrell, et al. p266)

·         “The term mobile Internet applies specifically to services and Web sites designed to be viewed on mobile devices that have small screens and use low bandwidth”  (O’Farrell, et al. 2008 p271)

   These quotes will be quite useful, as I will be able to describe how much society is prepared to pay for items found on their mobile phone’s internet and how much they use the mobile internet. The last quote will help me to define what the general idea of mobile phone internet is at the beginning.

        The journal “Comparing Internet and Mobile Phone divides” by Ronald Rice and James Katz will provide two quotes for my report which are shown below.

·         “Early adopters of the mobile phone were more likely to work fulltime” (Rice and Katz, 2002).

·         “the multivariate analysis found Nonusers to be less likely to work fulltime, have less income, and not be married” (Rice and Katz, 2002).

These quotes will be useful as it shows results from a survey the authors fulfilled. These quotes show both sides of this subject – what is likely to happen to users and non-users of mobile internet in their future lives. I will use these quotes to help describe the impact on the lives of people from mobile phones.

        The website http://soni2006.hubpages.com/hub/Effects-of-cell-phone--mobile-phone-use-on-our-brain-and-memory will provide three quotes for my report.

·         “Recent study even tells that even reproductive organs are adversely affected by waves that come from cell phones”

·         “Drivers who listen to cell phone conversations are distracted even if they do not talk, exhibiting similar behaviour as people who have been drinking”

·         “It is better to use a mobile operator which works on a lower frequency, as higher frequency can have higher ill effects on our brain.”

      I will use these quotes to show how mobile phones can affect human behaviour. These quotes are quite useful, because they can be used to predict how users will act in the future as a result from using mobile phones.

Overall I believe I have gathered an extensive and diverse amount of quotations to use for my report, all of which present great value to the report.