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SharedPhoneStudy-Kampala-1497-thumb.jpg As you ease yourself behind your desk to start another week in front of the 'puta, think of Jan Chipcase, a Nokia employee who flits from war-torn African villages to the supreme weirdness of Tokyo to back-alleys of New Delhi and much else in his endless travels. It's all in the interests of helping Nokia "ethnographers", psychologists and designers understand local markets, apparently. I say 'apparently' because Jan hasn't actually published a paper yet explaining exactly what all this means for the humble cellphone, but he does keep a rather intriguing photo blog.

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