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I have often found myself having to dodge cellphone users in deep conversation while shopping in a store.
eetimes has a great article on this aspect of mobile phone use… “While driving, mobile talkers normally require two full lanes and a half-dozen car-lengths–front and back–to accommodate their car, their phone, their life-or-death discussion, their career, their personal importance, their bustling, affluent lifestyle and their total obliviousness to the traffic that careens around them at 75 mph.”

and “Women use their mobile phones as ’symbolic bodyguards’ when feeling vulnerable in public places“

 Sociology of the Mobile Phone has also some amazing insights into mobile phone use within different cultures “Thus, cell phones have become popular even in rather “technophobic contexts like Italy, where computers and other modern technologies have a difficult stand (Fortunati 53), and especially in Scandinavian countries where people traditionally are introverted and silence in talk is highly valued (Puro 2002).”

Dr Sadie Plant has some good observations too.
“A number of males also confessed to being inhibited when their companions displayed mobiles of a higher specification or aesthetic quality than their own. Others said they had been keen to display their mobiles while they were top-of-the-range or state-of-the-art, but had stopped doing so when their models fell behind.”

Meanwhile if you are tired of all the loud voices of cellphone penumbra carry some shhh cards by coudal