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Tech Life

Mobile phones

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What do you look for when buying a mobile phone? And what do you do with your old phone? Have you thought about trading it in and recycling? Your needs might vary, depending upon where in the world you live. We explore the options. Also this week, find out about the digital repatriation of historical artefacts.

(Photo: A pile of mobile phones. Credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

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0:48.8

Hello and welcome to TechLife, the program about technology making an impact on your life.

0:55.7

I'm Shona McCallum and this week we are looking at some of the reasons you choose your mobile phone handset.

1:01.7

In some parts of the world, it's to solve this problem.

1:05.5

So most people almost never have bank accounts.

1:07.9

They put the money under the mattress.

1:09.8

And once you've found a mobile phone that suits your needs,

1:12.9

what do you do with your old one? It's estimated there are billions of unused old phones

1:18.5

gathering dust in the back of people's cupboards. I speak to one woman who's trying to change

1:23.3

that. Plus, find out all about the digital repatriation of historical artefacts.

1:51.6

Right, it's only a couple of weeks since I spent 24 hours in Barcelona for TechLife reporting from Mobile World Congress, the biggest phone conference in the world.

1:57.4

Now, many of the devices I saw were expensive and glitzy,

2:02.0

and it got me thinking,

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