Chinese Mad About Mobile Phones

Spend some time in the Shanghai metro and you will be impressed not only by its efficiency and cleanliness, but also by the number of thumbs racing over mobile phones, send text messages to friends. The text messages while it is yet to take off in the U.S., where the low price of local calls makes it easy to just dial and talk, in China, SMS messages are in fashion. (And if you wonder how people send text messages in a country which has no alphabet and more than 50,000 characters, is actually easier - and faster - than you think. Subscribers write in pinyin, the Chinese transcription, and then choose the character you want from a list. And 'quick and accurate.), but not only messaging that makes mobile phone subscribers in China happy. Mobile users in the People's Republic are also enthusiastic about the leaf color ring back tones, tunes that play while the marker is waiting for the call recipient to respond. General Services ring tones are very popular, giving the suppliers of mobile phones and web sites of many reasons to smile. In fact, China Mobile, the ring-back tones and color that has a turnover of 6.99 billion yuan (about U.S. $ 872 million) last year, more than 2.5 times the amount generated l 'years before. No wonder that Internet companies in China are also struggling to fill up with melodies for users to download. Although China's population is over one billion, much of the country's new prosperity is on the east coast. The mobile phone usage, however, is popular worldwide. China has a relatively low rate of mobile phone usage on a per capita basis but by virtue of a population of over 1.29 billion, is ranked world number two, mobile phones on the market, second only to United States with over 75 million subscribers.