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The Mobile phone functionality is unlimited. Today the mobile phone no longer is a communication tool for most user. It can be use for various of purpose such as entertainment, navigation, photography, internet browsing, and etc. Recently the mobile phone has been use as school axes textbooks at UK.

Here is the news:
“A school is getting rid of textbooks and encouraging pupils to download homework onto their mobile phones instead.

The new Hackney City Academy wants to eliminate the need for heavy rucksacks and is introducing curriculum texts that pupils can access through their mobile phone SIM cards and home computers.

The scheme for ‘E-books’ has been launched primarily to save on the huge costs of buying and replacing hundreds of books every year.

Academy headteacher Mark Emmerson is pioneering the E-books in his school, which is due to open next September.

Researchers at the University of Aberystwyth’s computer department and text book publishers are developing the online editions and expect them to be up and running in time for the school to open its doors.

Mr Emmerson said: ‘It will be as simple as downloading a ringtone to their SIM card, something practically all teenagers will now know how to do.

‘You see people on the trains reading E-book versions of novels they have downloaded all the time. We are simply applying the same technology in the class room.

‘The majority of pupils have their own mobile phones and access to internet at home. Homework requires usually only one or two pages of a book at a time, so it won’t require too much information.

‘Instead of pupils taking home a copy they simply go to a site and download the relevant information.’

Mr Emmerson said that traditional paper copies would still be available for pupils without mobiles and home computers. Internet access in the school would also be available to every pupil.

Textbooks will still be used by teachers and will be in school, but they will be very much as reference books not standard issue to pupils. Pupils will use PDFs of the pages they are working on in class or computers.

‘We will still have some textbooks, but providing copies to every pupil is too expensive’, Mr Emmerson said.

‘This scheme will harnesses the latest technology and provide the ideal solution. We are only encouraging pupils to use their phones just for their homework. They still won’t be allowed to use them in school.’

Health campaigners have highlighted the dangers that carrying over-loaded rucksacks can have on children’s developing spines, while the lockers which line the corridors of every school are often seen as a security hazard.

Textbooks will be put on the schools internal internet site and pupils will access this online either on their laptop or phone.

It can then be saved to the SIM card, or downloaded to a computer, and used at any time by the student.”

Well, the is just a part that a mobile phone can do. And yet, mobile phone still have other function can be developed. The possibility is unlimited. Let’s see how a mobile phone change the world in the future.