October 9, 2014
OUTNUMBERED
There are 7.2 billion people in the world, and more are being added at the rate of two per second. That’s pretty impressive, though not quite as impressive as what we’ve been able to achieve recently. After all, it’s taken us 200,000 years to get here. Mobile phones have been around for only 30 years, and yet in the time it takes us to make a new person, we’re making 5 mobile phones. And for the first time ever, the amount of active mobile phones in the world has overtaken the amount of people. We have just been outnumbered: all hail our new Android (or IOS) overlords!
It’s not surprising that attitudes are changing. We have moved from a world where your phone was static, fixed in place either in your home, on your desk or outside on the street, to a world where everything is portable. The latest advancements seem set to move an object that sits in your bag or pocket (assuming it doesn’t, ahem, bend) to one that you wear about your person in the form of a watch or a pair of glasses. And while it used to be the domain of spies, criminals or cheating spouses to own a second or third device, there are now plenty of reasons why you might want to own another phone.
Take travel, for example. If you’re headed overseas, you might feel that the fee charged by your provider to unlock your current smartphone handset is too expensive when compared with the price of standard cellphones these days. You may wish to travel with something ordinary to deflect attention from potential thieves, or it may be that you’re traveling to a place where recharging your power-hungry smartphone may not be possible every two days, and you want something that will last a little longer. You may even wish to upgrade your phone in order to travel, taking advantage of all the useful apps that are now available, such as maps, online restaurant reviews or translation software.
Here at Telestial, we are happy to be contributing to the world’s overpopulation of mobile phones. We believe in offering the greatest possible choice of options to our customers, at affordable prices.
