I agree with what other reviews have said, this read was not what I was expecting. Perhaps a change in title? This was a very detail oriented play-by-play from the perspective of a professional in the technology field as the iphone took over and revolutionized the smart phone discipline, and the second and third other effects of that.

Not quite my style of read, often seemed like a "flight of ideas", add the author shares his memories, but perhaps I am the wrong audience for this book

An interesting look at the history of telecommunications and how we've used and depended on cellphones for the last few decades. I write this knowing I will be checking my Android device shortly for a weather update and any new emails about my work.

This was not the book I thought it would be, but it was still pretty interesting. It could be renamed, The life and times of the smartphone as it is a biography of how mobile tech grew and changed. It was a bright eyed young kid and is now an angry teenager, but there is hope, it will grow out of it.

Thanks to Net Galley for this ARC. I learned a lot.

Read if you: Want an intriguing memoir of the heady early days of the iPhone, Tesla, and many more innovate and complicated tech breakthroughs of the past two decades.

Rory Cellan-Jones is a British journalist, so it was interesting to get his take on the rise of American and Asian tech companies during a time in which European companies, which previously enjoyed dominace, were falling behind (Nokia, etc).

Many thanks to Bloomsbury Continuum and NetGalley for a digital review copy in exchange for an honest review.

Always on by Rory Cellan-Jones is an amazing book which I couldn't put down.

It starts from a personal point of view on how the tech build up plus the rise of apple and the competitive phone industry. Nokia, Blackberry, iPhone to iPhone and Google Phone. To the rise of social Media and how that became quickly important to have in business and personal. To the rise of Facebook/Myspace and something called Bebo. Then you have the constant debate of 5G whats really going on. Also how tech during a pandemic Helps us.
( This goes up to now 2021)
I really liked the personal point of view written plus experiencing, I learned immensely , also its nice to read from a point of view with someone who experienced this rise of technology as well.

Great book would highly recommend!
Publish dates July 13 2021!

This Arc was given to me by netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Always On
Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era
by Rory Cellan-Jones
Bloomsbury USA
You Like Them
Bloomsbury Continuum
Computers & Internet | Nonfiction (Adult) | Science
Pub Date 13 Jul 2021 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2021

Thanks to Bloomsbury USA and NetGalley for this ARC. We are looking to improve our computer/internet sections and was a helpful read. I can't wait until it is published.

4star