It Was A Revolutionary Product

According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, nearly two-thirds of the United States adults own a smartphone, which is up from 35% in 2011 (Anderson and Posts). As the acceptance of smartphones expand, many question whether it will have an adverse impact on our lives. Author Nicholas Carr indirectly criticizes the use of a smartphone; however, smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone can have both positive and negative impacts on a population.

“More than three billion people worldwide now use the internet (Time), and 80 percent of them access if from their smartphones” (Smart Insights). A smartphone is a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, and much more. There is an abundant amount of smartphone brands out there in the world and while they all cost different prices, they all perform the same job. Each person uses their smartphone for various reasons, whether it’s for work or to make calls or texts. Smartphones have changed society in various ways, both good and bad. Although countless individuals think that smartphones have ruined American society, smartphones have actually benefited society because of more safety precautions, information on hand, and entertainment.

“In 2011, 92.8 million people in the U.S. used smartphones. By 2015, 190.5 million people used smartphones” (Holt, 2016). This new technology has vastly spread throughout the world and has improved the way Americans live their lives. Cell phones have given smartphone users numerous advantages, such as connecting the world, and enabling their multitasking skills. The usage of cell phones has gone to users heads as they have become addicted to their screens.

Cell phones are as common in the market today as a wrist watch on your arm. They are always at our side whether you’re young or elderly, ready to be answered, receive text messages, check

Cell phones are having a great influence in our live and are very convenient to keep with us. Cell phones are a faster and more effective way to transfer information. Indeed, it is a resource that gives its user’s great advantages.

About 91 percent of the US population has a mobile phone. Given that fact, more than nine out of ten people reading this essay own a mobile phone. In 2000, only about 53 percent of the US population owned a mobile phone. The use of the telephone just keeps on rising, and it is very hard to tell if it will ever stop. For many, they have never known a time without cell phones. The phone has changed over time and has revolutionized the way we live. Therefore, it is very important that everyone becomes more educated on the topic. In particular, it is important to learn about the history of the phone, inventors who have contributed to the phone, and how the phone has lead to controversies in today’s society.

Our cellphones are instruments or symbols of communication. Our dependence in our phones increases overtime. We can’t get out in the house without it, it’s like everything revolves around it. People use it to contact their friends or family, explore games, do social media, send important emails and the list goes on. Every year, companies improve on making phones more useful and likewise, offers cheap alternatives, so that every person can have access to the device. Looking at a couple years back, phones are generally use for messaging and seen as an unnecessary accessories but now, people can’t live without. Based on the website called Tame Yourself, study shows that “...58% of smartphone users don’t go without checking their phones.” this explains how addicted we are on our devices.

Similar to the complexities of the Boeing 747 “super jet”, “No single person can comprehend the entire workings” of a cell phone. The cell phone found in the pocket of the majority of citizens of the world today include GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G networks, LTE, high-resolution cameras and millions of downloadable user-made applications to choose from. In fewer than 30 years, the cell phone went from a rare device only attainable by the wealthiest of the population, to a device that a large percentage of the population now owns. Whether on the streets of downtown Toronto, or a small village in poverty-stricken East Africa, it is becoming increasingly rare to find a person who does not own a mobile device.

The way we communicate is changing over time and for the worse. Why watch the news or read the newspaper, when you can view it on your phone? Why meet up for lunch, when you can make a phone call? Why write and send a letter, when you can send a text message? Smartphones enable us to connect, yet disconnect from society and the people around us. They are having an extreme effect on business, education, social-interaction, and our health and safety. Almost everyone has a mobile device, most of them being a smartphone. In addition, a recent study found that 90% of American adults own a cell phone and of those 90%, 64% are smartphone owners (Pew Research Center). This is a rising number each year and the world has become increasingly distant.

Mobile phones have become a necessity for life, and without this thin gadget, many people would feel incomplete. We now use mobile phones in our everyday life as a phone, voice recorder, diary, alarm clock, watch and for making and confirming appointments, dealing with clients etc. Mobile phones are for many, fundamental when organising their lives. Mobile phones are not simply an electronic gadget, and it is difficult to define in one way about the usage of mobile phones. With the advances of technology, mobile phones are becoming a way of life. Mobile phones are not used as just communication tools but are also considered as devices which have strong communication networks along with the other functionalities such as audio solutions, FM

For the last couple of decades, the evolution of cell phones has happened fast, and it has happened right before our eyes. The memories about having a house phone with a cord on a table or attached to the wall are still on my mind. Nowadays, however, a person needs only one device to do different things at the same time, when in the past one needed three different devices to be able to do their things, and it was time-consuming.

In the developed nations across the world electronic devices and gadgets have completely permeated modern society. Technology has become more than a convenience or novelty to the citizens of developed nations. Technology has become a necessity. The need to have the latest and greatest electronic devices has become all encompassing. Modern household now have televisions, thermostats, and refrigerators all network ready and communicating. Leading the way in this parade of modern marvels is the smartphone. The smartphone has become so integral to daily life that many people could not imagine leaving home without it. The smartphone is such a versatile device that often the phone part of it is the least used function. This device brings access to the whole world to a person's fingertips. A device capable of calling forth the sum total of humankind’s knowledge at a moment's notice. However, without the requisite education and understanding, all of that knowledge becomes an incoherent list of facts.

Mobile phones are very popular in today’s society because people can do almost anything on their mobile phone. According to a post on Ofcom, “33% of internet users view their smartphone as the most important device for getting online” (Ofcom, 2015). However, mobile phones and particularly smartphones can either help people to feel part of the current trends in society or make people feel slightly segregated from society as the trends are constantly changing.

3. It can be argues that Smartphone are increasingly becoming an everyday necessity in people’s live because of the important functions that they can do and the fact that they are all available in just one handset.

Smartphones are a type of phone that can perform many functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system that can run software applications. It can allow people to engage in those activities that they used to use on their Personal Computer while with more convenience in a mobile size. In 2008, only 10% of phones users in America are the smartphones users. But before the end of 2011, smartphones became the most popular phone device (Entner, 2010), and by 2013, smartphones overtook PCs as the most common Web access device, and the adoption rate of smartphones is 69% in developed countries today. [3]