An Age of Magic

Locked or unlocked…?

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I was browsing in a phone store the other day and noticed that despite them being well and truly a part of everyday life, cell phones are still pretty darn expensive. I am not a cell phone-owning person myself but I did see one or two models which certainly appealed to me - if for no other reason than aesthetic ones…

Why though do people still pay the high amounts of money for phones with restricted use rather than going for the     unlocked cell phones which allow you to use a SIM card from another carrier - maybe even at a cheaper price…?

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It pays not to be wealthy in Mexico

Apart from the shocking levels of crime in it’s cities and border towns, and the high numbers of young women who are abducted and murdered each year, the increasing rate of wealthy Mexican’s being kidnapped is being met with an interesting way of fighting this.

So fearful are many people about this problem that they are now having tiny GPS devices implanted into their bodies so that they can be traced by satellite should they be kidnapped.

This is very like the former British Home Secretary David Blunkett’s idea of micro-chipping every newborn baby instead of introducing the ID card…

But I suppose it does have a point and if it works then maybe some parents will look at doing the same to their children; imagine if children like Madeline McCann were wearing a ‘chip’ - maybe she would have been found by now…?

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