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Mobile Phones And Its Effect On Different Levels

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Mobile phones use has increase dramatically throughout the past two decades. It is estimated that the number of worldwide mobile phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants have jumped from 3 in 1997 to 97 subscribers in 2014 (ITU 2014). While in developed countries mobile phones have exceeded the number of people (BBC 2007), the growth rate of subscribers in developing countries is reported to be the largest (BBC 2005). Mostly due to insufficient landline infrastructure. As a matter of fact, some predicted the “death” of the landline due to the takeover of cellular phones as a disruptive technology (Thompson 2005). Moreover, mobile phones have not only put the landline market under threat, but also personal computers; it has been indicated that the ratio of search queries sent from mobile devices to those from personal computers have increased rapidly and merely between the years 2010 and 2011 (Church et al., 2012). The introduction of the mobile phone has consequently introduced a number of impacts on different levels. Namely economical, environmental, human health and human behavior. In this report we are particularly concerned with the latest. As mobile use expand among groups and by individuals, the number of features and functionalities within a single handset is also increasing. And with the introduction of new trends, functionalities and social media, mobiles use has thus increased, vice-versa. The integration of built in cameras, location services, wireless

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