Well here in Europe most people are now using ear pieces for making/receiving calls on their mobiles - driven by the recent stories of potential radiation health risks from emmissions. A by product of this is that the mobile is not up to your ear when you make/receive calls and you can use the address book etc while a call is in progress. Early next year the first bluetooth based ear pieces and other peripherals will appear and then even the wire to the ear piece disappears - we've tested a prototype ear bluetooth based ear piece...very cool indeed! I know US friends are almost always amazed at the number of mobiles that are in use here in the UK - we're at 32% now with 50% predicted by the end of 2000. This level of penetration has been driven by a Europe wide digital mobile standard - GSM and the fact that here the 'calling party' pays. The pace of development in Europe is truly amazing...it is the one area where Europe is way ahead of the US. If you have a WAP 1.1 compliant mobile take a look at http://www.onfone.cwcs.net/wap/tt.wml which is a WAP application we are developing that allows you to get UK train times on your mobile. Cheers Andrew
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Well here in Europe most people are now using ear pieces for making/receiving calls on their mobiles - driven by the recent stories of potential radiation health risks from emmissions. A by product of this is that the mobile is not up to your ear when you make/receive calls and you can use the address book etc while a call is in progress. Early next year the first bluetooth based ear pieces and other peripherals will appear and then even the wire to the ear piece disappears - we've tested a prototype ear bluetooth based ear piece...very cool indeed! I know US friends are almost always amazed at the number of mobiles that are in use here in the UK - we're at 32% now with 50% predicted by the end of 2000. This level of penetration has been driven by a Europe wide digital mobile standard - GSM and the fact that here the 'calling party' pays. The pace of development in Europe is truly amazing...it is the one area where Europe is way ahead of the US. If you have a WAP 1.1 compliant mobile take a look at http://www.onfone.cwcs.net/wap/tt.wml which is a WAP application we are developing that allows you to get UK train times on your mobile. Cheers Andrew