Japanese Schoolgirls to gadget-crazy

Mobile phone revolution has come early to gadget-crazy Japan, and 80 percent of Japanese now own at least one. There are over 100 million users with advanced third generation mobile. But it was not students and businessmen, who kicked into high gear cellular technology. It all started with the pager. Originally intended for men salary, pager with teenagers arrested in the early nineties, and millions and millions of colored versions called “Pocket Bell” have been sold. Professor Mizuko Ito, a cultural anthropologist known for his research on how teens use technology, Bells Pocket suggests that young people were the first viral tech. Although basically just a pager, what was different was how Bell Pocket adolescents start using them. Instead of punching in a phone number for a call back, the children began sending messages to each other using the primitive numbers