section_path: Culture and popularity
section_name: Culture and popularity
paragraph_text: Culture and popularity
  
  Mobile phones are considered an important human invention as it has been one of the most widely used and sold pieces of consumer technology. They have also become culturally symbolic. In Japanese mobile phone culture for example, mobile phones are often decorated with charms. They have also become fashion symbols at times. The Motorola Razr V3 and LG Chocolate are two examples of devices that were popular for being fashionable while not necessarily focusing on the original purpose of mobile phones, i.e. a device to provide mobile telephony.
  
  Some have also suggested that mobile phones or smartphones are a status symbol. For example a research paper suggested that owning specifically an Apple iPhone was seen to be a status symbol.
  
  Text messaging, which are performed on mobile phones, has also led to the creation of ' SMS language '. It also led to the growing popularity of emojis.