Cars Losing Out To Phones As Status Objects

Phones are now the dominant technology with which young people...now define themselves. What sort of phone you carry and how you customise it says a great deal about you, just as the choice of car did for a previous generation.

That mobile phones are taking on many of the social functions of cars is to be welcomed...A chirping handset is a much greener form of self-expression than an old banger. It may irritate but it is safe."