Research Paper Stage- 3 Smartphone Case with a built in battery and sound amplification By Prithvi Ravikumar Under the Guidance of Dr. Balaji Sethuramasamyraja IT285 Advanced Manufacturing Systems Fall 2016 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Smartphones are the most trending gadgets that everyone has nowadays. Almost everyone use smartphones today. Smartphones have lot of uses with people which include calling, texting, internet and lots and lots of uses. These smart phones also have lot of accessories like headset, cases and etc. In cases or covers are the important one to protect the smartphones from damage or scratch. There are lot of smartphone cases available in the market from rubber to hard plastic covers. It is very important to find a good cover for your smartphone to keep it safe from damages because the smartphones in these days are very slim, therefore the probability of slipping down the smartphone is high. Also to save money as we have some high end smartphones that are costlier. People nowadays are more used to smartphones from maps to internet that they can’t even stay without a mobile for one hour so it is very important to keep our smartphone safe with a good smartphone cover. Smartphones are the ones which we are going to hold every day where we use that for everything nowadays. Apart from all other uses of the smartphones people use it for entertainment too. Music is something everyone likes. Music can change your mood and relax. People started listening to
Phones and computers help the human population communicate faster and more efficiently. Saving millions of people time and money everyday. No longer do people have to meet up somewhere to make plans, instead a few taps of the thumb and anyone can invite fifty people to a party/social event. People do not have to drive miles to ask someone a simple
Cell phones bring people together. “The idea behind Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram is to make us feel connected all the time” (Document 1). Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram can help us keep in touch with our friends (Document 1). Facebook connects more of us to more of our friends and family in more places than we have ever been connected before. (Document 1). Along with this I can say that cell phones are a useful tool.
Mobile phones have improved a lot since it was first introduced and now nearly everyone owns a mobile phone. It keeps you connected with friends, family and co-workers. This is very good in case of an emergency you can quickly contact someone for help and keeps you safe. A mobile phone is packed with so much technology such as a music player, digital camera and even a GPS.
The first mobile phones, due to its “smaller” size, would still be considered very large in today’s world. Many of the early cell phones were considered “car phones” because they were shaped like a brick and could not fit into one's pocket. The first cell phone was called the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x and was commercially available in 1983. The cellular technology to call these phones was analog frequencies. In the early 2000’s, cell phones became smaller is size and the software got faster. The introduction of the Blackberry popularized the use of the technology allowing more and more people to be involved. Cell phones became popular with the introduction of text messaging, short messages that can be sent to another person. Texting has become an easier and quicker form of communicating with others. Teenagers and children grew to love this feature as a main form of communication. They took on this mainly because it is very private and did not have to be loud in a situation that was not appropriate. “Today’s teens will carry the technology with them as a part of their repertoire of communication possibilities. Where older generations, when
Cellphones are most common in society. The ease of access allows us to have the world at our fingertips 24 hours a day and we never have to unplug. We can surf the web, book a flight, check the weather, and message a friend 1000 miles away without leaving our bed.
Like Solnit, I believe society, especially the younger generation, has suffered greatly with the expansion of the Digital Revolution that we are now living in. One of the main perpetrators in my opinion is the emergence of the smartphone. Considering that presently there are over four billion mobile phone users in the world right now, and that 3.5 billion people with access to the internet in 2016, a 900% increase since the year 2000, it is no wonder that our society has changed drastically in these past few years. Thanks to smartphones, the vast population of the world now have easy access to the internet from their back pocket. In recent years smartphones have become the most popular way to surf the web, so with that in mind I have chosen the smartphone as an object which will signify how our culture has changed in recent history.
Technology is more present than ever in the modern day society. While technology has evolved in the past years its use has become an important part of the daily life of a person. Many persons revolve around their phone as their phone has become the center of their life. The cell phone industry has taken over the life of many persons and amongst this person it includes students. Technology is often seen in the shape of a cell phone while technology various from cell phones to computers cell phone are amongst the most used model of technology.
For centuries, persuasive literature has used a variety of tactics to sway the audience’s thoughts. From appealing to emotion, to appealing to logic, authors have devised a way to not only change what a reader thinks, but how they think. In the article, The Argument Against Headphones, author Virginia Heffernan discusses both the advantages and disadvantages to the usage of headphones. However, she predominantly stresses the drawbacks of said usage throughout the writing. Heffernan repeatedly uses the main tactic of fear to influence how the audience thinks of headphones in a negative manner.
Cell phones have allowed everyone to have communication wherever they go. Special pant pockets and compartments for bags were made in the mid-nineties designed for a place to put a cell phone (The History of the Mobile Phone). Fashion isn’t the only thing that cell phones have changed; it affected commercials, movies and music. Commercials and movies have been changed because as time has gone on, more and more people have, or are interested in having a cell phone, so the cell phones show up in more and more movie and commercials (The History of the Mobile Phone). The face of music has been changed because now cell phones allow anyone to download music from anywhere instead of having to buy music at a store (The History of the Mobile Phone). Interactions from the crowds at concerts are different because instead of the crowds using lighters, now people can just pull out their
The main need it fulfills is instant communication. Whether it be a phone call, a text message, or even video chat, telephones have the ability to let the user communicate with anyone around the world instantaneously, which is an amazing feature. Telephones are also able to fulfill the need for entertainment. When using smartphones, consumers have the option to listen to music, play games, watch movies/TV shows, and access social media. Sine phones are able to provide the consumer with all these different types of entertainment, it eliminates the need for consumers to have multiple sources of entertainment, because all these forms of entertainment are on a phone (i.e no need for an iPod to listen to music to, because you can download music onto your phone). Another need a phone can fulfill, is the need for a camera. Instead of carrying a bulky camera wherever you go, consumers can just bring their mobile phone with them, and take pictures and videos. This is very convenient because it reduces the amount of items you need to carry with you. It also eliminates the process of downloading your pictures onto a computer to view them, because instead you can view them right on the spot. The phone also fulfills the need for an alarm clock, a map, a compass and a calculator. It also is able to keep track of your health, gives you current news updates, and you are able to keep track of different stocks. These features
The smart phone has become more than that of just an accessory only to be seen among the rich and wealthy it has become a social standard were ones personality can be understood by one’s phone. Now a day it appears as though almost every one owns a mobile phone and the teachers can tell. The smart phone can access the web from almost any location and there special phone that are used only for social media. Speaking of social media the ability for one to communicate with a far away relative was never more of a dream until recently. Well it was just in the late 90s when phone were the size of dinosaurs, extremely expensive and the only thing they could do was call. Now they are smaller than the computers back, ten times stronger and at a quarter of their size. It is safe to say that phones are going to be as common as
The launch of the iPhone in 2007 transformed the humble mobile phone from a one-trick tool for communication into a catch-all platform whose functionality is constantly evolving. The smartphone … is now a pocket-size PC,” the editors wrote. “It facilitates instantaneous personal connections that make phone
Cell Phones are objects that we see all around us every day, at all times of the day. However, everyone uses their cell phones in different ways for different reasons. The younger generation of this era does not know how it was in the past without such advanced technology like we have nowadays. Depending on the way that the owner of the phone uses it, shows how important it really is in their daily life and its importance in the owner’s lifestyle. In my opinion, cellphones are important to everyone of all ages because they inform us when there are amber alerts or weather alerts, to stay in contact with others just in case of an emergency, and to get around places with the use of google maps or other apps that are meant for maps.
This change has made people able to access and communicate information and entertainment with ease and move on without a thought. People most likely carry their device from room to room, car, office, etc less aware of the things going on around them. The most common devices used are phones and tablets. These devices are used almost everyday all day by people and have become a problem among teenagers and adults. Phones are a big problem in classrooms or work, but it has not had much of an effect compared to on the road distractions.
The earliest smart phones integrated email access and allowed the phone to be used as an address book, pager, and fax machine. Cell phones more recently picked up the name “mobile device” as the purpose has shifted to more of a multimedia device rather than just a phone used for only direct communication. Cell phones have come a long way since then. They have continued to evolve and have become a huge part of our life today.