Chapter 2: Trends Towards Mobility We are living in a move mania. We are constantly coming or going. We fl y to meetings overseas; we commute for hours; we prefer exotic faraway places for our holidays. We spend hours and hours in cars, trains, planes, hotels, airports, and other transitory places. We are becoming nomads – again. This chapter explores us, the new nomads, by observing how we make use of a range of mobile devices, and put up with the compro- mises required by mobility. We discuss the technology advances, including miniaturization and the rise of wireless connectivity. We discuss the ways mobility infl uences content, using mobile music as a typical case. Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age J. Lehikoinen, A. Aaltonen, P. Huuskonen and I. Salminen © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd