On Friday, the mobile phone celebrated 20 years of growth and development, which means that, thankfully, phones have gone from the size of a briefcase to a tiny, multi-featured smartphone.

On 7 September 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications.

According to the GSM Association there are more than 2.5 billion accounts that use this mobile phone technology.

Adoption of the technology shows no signs of slowing down with many developing nations becoming keen users of mobile handsets. [BBC News]

For some of us, it’s difficult to even imagine life without mobiles. It’s become something of a lifeline; finding information and planning our social lives wouldn’t be the same without this ubiquitous means of communication.

It seems fit then that today, hundreds of mobile industry people are getting together in Helsinki for the Mobile Monday Global Summit. Some pics of the event are already being posted on Flickr. Well, what did you expect from a bunch of mobile geeks?

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