ABSTRACT
So far I have focused on the production of cell phone culture, considering narratives of its early history, especially as a portable voice telephony artefact, and then reviewing, in chapter 3, how influential corporations, in particular Nokia and Vodafone, made important contributions through their ideas of use, branding, and advertising. In this chapter, I wish to turn to another, interlinked aspect of the ‘circuit of culture’, cell phone culture – namely consumption.
