Cell Phone Communication: Is It Getting Colder?

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Cell phones have become such an integral part of our everyday lives that mobile providers are endlessly picking their best brains in search of new and different ways we can use them. While the list may be endless and limited only by the boundaries of imagination, the recent research done by Nokia into how people use their mobile phones and what they want from them in the future reveals some chilling news.

Apparently 72 % of cell phone users in Saudi Arabia yearn to have their cell phones communicate not with their distant relatives, camels or business associates but rather with their refrigerator! Yes, you heard it here first; their refrigerator! According to Nokia, almost one in two people currently use their mobile device as their main camera and nearly half yearn to find a way to connect their mobile device with their home electronics. Isn’t then, the refrigerator the very next step? What would that appliance tell its owners if it could? Would such a conversation mark the onset of still another encounter of the God-knows-what kind?

Or is the entire matter merely one small step for cell phone users and one giant step for…frozen vegetable and leftovers? The answer, my friends, is not blowing in the wind as Bob Dylan used to say. It lies instead behind the refrigerator door where apparently, anything can happen.