Increasing use of 3G mobile phones can change the way people communicate and create new social trends and tribes, a behavioural study has suggested.
The ethnographic study by Future Laboratory said the combination of still and video cameras on modern phones, and the advent of high speed data transfer, can inspire a generation of users to express themselves creatively in different ways.
Researchers studied the phone habits of 10 groups of friends between the ages of 16-35 over six weeks in a range of UK cities.