The Daily Telegraph ran two amusing articles in its Sept 27th 2007 edition. Answering a question during a fringe meeting at the Labour conference, Alistair Campbell recalled receiving an SMS message from his erstwhile leader, Tony Blair, about his mobile.
The text apparently read “This is amazing; you can do words and everything.” The second article was all about a new generation of writers in Japan who are now tapping out entire novels on their mobile phones. Stories, called Keitai novels, are proving extremely popular with half the top 10 fiction best sellers for 2007 starting life on mobiles. The success of the stories is due to the intentional use of short sentences and less complicated expressions. STUART