teens are taking advantage of the autonomy and freedom that new technologies afford them. "Technology is not changing teens - they are in control, they are taking advantage of the advances,"

that an estimated 940-980 million phones will be sold this year. "Next year, if growth in the market continues at about the current rate, there will be more than a billion brand new handsets sold around the world - it is a massive market

Mobiles embody the convergence of several technologies that lend themselves to educational use, including electronic book readers, location-based services, annotation tools, applications for creation and composition, and social networking tools.