4.26pm BST Those in favour need to press 1 on electronic handsets, those against press 2. Voting ends in one minute.
More than 500 of the club's members queued in the full summer heat outside the Palace theatre to vote in a secret ballot, via electronic handsets.
Voting was anonymized by using electronic handsets and TurningPoint© software to analyse the results in real time.
Today, Mr. Goodfellow's invention and its fate are a curious but significant footnote to the bitter patent battle between NTP, whose only assets are the Campana patents, and Research in Motion, which has come to dominate the market for wireless electronic mail handsets.
Almost all the handset's electronic bits are replaceable, with spare parts sold via Fairphone's website — although the core chipset is not offered as a spare part, given it's the most expensive component and repair costs would likely put off any buyers.
Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that oversees the nation's railroad train services, has been training conductors since November to use the Apple handset as an electronic ticket scanner on a few routes, including from Boston to Portland, Me., and San Jose, Calif., to Sacramento.
Even seasoned observers of the technology industry could not hide their surprise when it was announced on Monday, August 15th, that Google, the online giant, would buy Motorola Mobility, a maker of handsets and other electronic devices, for a whopping $12.5 billion.
The San Diego company's software and chip designs are the electronic guts that make mobile handsets work.
The venture aims to develop a payment system using a technology called Near Field Communication, or NFC, which involves the wireless transfer of encrypted account and payment information from a mobile handset to a retailer's electronic cash register.
Some 20m phone subscribers are already gripped by Japan's "mobile Internet" craze.V-Sync, a music and digital-content provider based in a trendy part of downtown Tokyo, has developed a matchbox-sized gadget that can be attached to the battery socket at the bottom of a mobile handset to create an instant electronic purse.
The company also manufactures and sells automobiles and related products, handset components, LCD and other electronic products.
