One little gadget, 3.3 billion subscribers -- half the population of the planet! It may fit in the palm of your hand, but the cell phone packs a powerful punch. By the year 2010, an estimated 90% of the world will have cell phone coverage. So what does that mean to all of us who are the foot soldiers in the mobile revolution?

This fast-paced [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] documentary will take you rural India, where there’s no electricity but children play mobile games to learn English. You’ll travel to a remote corner of Rwanda, where the "village phone lady" is helping fellow villagers cross the digital divide and climb out of poverty. In San Francisco, you’ll meet the high tech maverick who invented the technology that created the camera phone.

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