And in tech, handset makers were moving higher, on reports that Nokia 's CEO is calling for handset sales to increase during 2003, fueled by new subscriber growth in the U.S., China, Russia and eastern Europe.
Fifteen hundred men kept busy during the peak moving season The French type instrument which the Bell System calls "handset" is increasingly popular.
From handset 1, call handset 2. Answer the call on handset 2. Put handset 1 on "speaker phone" and then "mute".
This engineering sleight of hand involves using the existing copper wires that make up most telephone wires a single twisted pair of copper wires carries most of today's telephone calls between handset and phone company central office.
As devices like the iPhone have demonstrated, a phone today is more than a phone: Beyond simple calls, handsets play music, take photos and serve up Web video of skateboarding dogs.
According to the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority, Motorola has been banned from calling their Atrix handset "the most powerful smartphone in the world" in marketing and promotional materials.
"So what happens is the cellular phone system thinks I'm calling from my handset and doesn't ask for the password because that feature is turned off by default," Mitnick explained.
MTV Networks' president, Van Toffler, calls mobile handsets "the new holy grail of electronic devices" and likes to say that the next Steven Spielberg is going to develop for them.
The mobile phone industry often calls its handsets "the third screen," a teensier successor to the TV and the PC.
At the moment, few people in Burma, also known as Myanmar, can afford mobile phone handsets and call charges.
