Contents Telektronikk Future Mobile Phones Volume 101 No. 3/4 – 2005 1 Guest editorial – Future Mobile Phones; ISSN 0085-7130 Do Van Thanh Editor: Per Hjalmar Lehne 3 The mobile phone: Its evolution from a communication device to a universal companion; Do Van Thanh and Ivar Jørstad (+47) 916 94 909
[email protected] 22 Mobile telephone history; Tom Farley Editorial assistant: 35 Mobile phones and fashion in post-modernity; Gunhild Luke Leopoldina Fortunati (+47) 415 14 125
[email protected] 49 Interest in future net-based services for a sample of Norwegian interviewees; Rich Ling Editorial office: Telenor R&D 60 Mobile multimedia and users: On the domestication of mobile multimedia; NO-1331 Fornebu Ilpo Koskinen and Esko Kurvinen Norway 69 Infrastructure for a mobile workforce; (+47) 810 77 000 Ole Tom Seierstad
[email protected] www.telektronikk.com 78 Flexible service integration with BREW; Richard Savage Editorial board: Berit Svendsen, Vice President Telenor 85 What’s next in mobile telephony and will it succeed? Nordic Nigel Wilcox Ole P. Håkonsen, Professor NTNU 96 OMTP – Open Mobile Terminal Platform; Oddvar Hesjedal, CTO Kyivstar GSM Lars Wendt and Do Van Thanh Bjørn Løken, Director Telenor Nordic 100 Reading emails on mobile phones; Graphic design: Do Van Thanh, Ivar Jørstad and Tore Jønvik Design Consult AS (Odd Andersen), Oslo 123 Fetching home music – Sending photos home; Layout and illustrations: Do Van Thanh, Ivar Jørstad and Do Van Thuan Gunhild Luke and Åse Aardal, Telenor R&D 131 The role of