The future has arrived. Only it is evenly distributed.

I've written often that the smartphone, in combination with the mobile web and social media creates a great leveling in access and opportunity; one unlike *never before* in history. All will have equivalent access. This will, in my view, prove the catalyst to a shift in the global economy and culture on par with the transition to agriculture.

Less grand but a datapoint I like to use nonetheless, in the US the smartphone is destroying our notion of a 'digital divide' as disproportionately more Blacks and Hispanics use smartphones than whites.

Now via the Telegraph, a story about a "Islamic smartphone". 

An Indian company has launched an 'Islamic smart phone', featuring a full copy of the Koran, a GPS application which points to Mecca and a calculator for Zakaat charitable donations.

India is the world's fastest growing mobile phone market with more than 850 million subscribers, including poor rickshaw drivers and farmers.

According to the 'Islamic' mobile's creators Muslims are under-represented among the growing ranks of Indian mobile phone users, but they believe their new phone will bring them into the digital world.

"India has around 180 million Muslims and the penetration of mobile phone in that community is less. But when a compelling product or service is available, it has a potential to increase the number of users. So far, we have had a tremendous response for the product," said Anuj Kanish, who has launched the 'Enmac' in India.

"Religion has a very important place in Indian society, so has the mobile phone. Our aim was to bring a device which caters to both the sections, the product is a combination of both technology and religion, the first of its kind in India," he said.