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can i say now that the mobile phone is
a part of Asia life?

"It is relatively robust, relatively small, you don't need a desk, you don't need to be a in particular place.

"And you don't have to be literate to use them or speak English. These are all constraints when it comes to operating a computer," she explains.

80 homes in 16 cities in countries as diverse as
India, Malaysia, South Korea and China.

In many of these places,
the mobile phone has emerged
as the predominant form of new technology.
China alone has more than
200 million mobile phone subscribers.

In Malaysia, about a third of the population
of 24 million has a mobile and the percentage
is even higher in countries like South Korea.

"We can learn lessons from why
the mobile phone has been successful in Asia

Dr Bell told BBC News Online.