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A Third Of New Cellular Customers Last Quarter Were Cars (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the connected-things dept.

Ina Fried, reporting for Recode: With the U.S. smartphone market saturated, most of the growth in the cellular industry is actually coming from other kinds of devices including tablets, machine-to-machine connections and lots and lots of cars. In the first quarter, for example, the major carriers actually added more connected cars (Editor's note: amounting to a 32 percent capture) as new accounts than they did phones.

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  1. Don't use a cellphone while driving by penguinoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't those engineers know anything?

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    1. Re:Don't use a cellphone while driving by cashman73 · · Score: 3, Funny
      and the remainder within reach of your girlfriend.

      I think you are forgetting that this is Slashdot you're posting at.

  2. Every Parents' Worse Nightmare by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were allowed to drive themselves. Now they have cellphones. Won't be long before they're at the drive in, making out and having babies.