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From the Official Google Blog:

There are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it’s safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented. (more)

How in health care do we tap the power on mobile devices featured in this pre-android deployment post on the future of mobile phones – smart alerts, augmented reality, mainstream crowd-sourcing, remote sensoring, development tool, and – I love this – trusted valet?

Trust is the most important currency in the always connected world, and your phone will help you stay in control of your information. You may choose to share nothing at all (the default mode), or just share certain things with certain people — your circle of trusted friends and family. You’ll make these decisions based on information you get from the service and software providers, and the collective ratings of the community as well. Your phone is like your trusted valet: it knows a lot about you, and won’t disclose an iota of it without your OK.

I hope it can help us know our health as well.