Smartphone Usage Among Students

“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.

As technology continually advances, smartphones are becoming more like computers. However, we need to keep in mind the primary purpose a phone can provide in

Over the last four decades, mobile devices have become the trademark of our society.cell phones and other mobile devices have inundated our society At any given time; we can see drivers talking or texting in a moving vehicle. According to Brenner (2013), 87% of American adults and 78% of teenagers own a cell phone. The scary part is that almost two-thirds of

In the essay “There’s No Place Like Home,” Joel Kotkin describes the new increasingly popular trend of “localism”. Localism is the idea that adults and children become accustomed to where they are living and are more prompted to stay there. The basis of his premise states “the longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with those places” (490). The comfort and familiarity people feel in their community leads local businesses and institutions to survive and prosper. The cause of new localism is primarily based on age, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased centralization of family life.

Mobile is a compulsory for everyone which can be bring to anywhere without geographical boundaries with multiple usages as people in Malaysia have a busy work life, and they might not have time to get in touch with agent to make enquiries or booking for their travel. There are different travel applications available in cell phone, for example application for hotel booking, flight ticket information, transport, introduction of travel destination, deals and etc. Thus, mobile become an essential thing in their daily life, they can manage to plan and make booking for their travel without any time and geographical boundaries. This is a more effective and efficient

Worldwide demand for Smartphones was robust as a result of the availability of high-speed wireless networks, mobile access to corporate intranets, and the broad acceptance of e-mail and text messaging for both business and personal communications.  The Smartphone industry was projected to grow from 10 percent of the global mobile market to 30 percent over five years. The growth is clear when considering in 2007 that the US enjoyed a 100% increase in user numbers with a 53% increase worldwide. Sales of units are predicted to be 500 million for 2008 and 2009 globally.

“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.

In today’s society, the use of mobile devices has taken over our lives in every way possible.

Due to advances in technology, smartphone availability and use is far more widespread than in the past. According to a study done by Ericsson[1], Singapore

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

At first, I was going to analyze and write about smartphones, however I found it more efficient to write also about a particular smartphone to narrow it down from such a broad technological artifact, such as answering who designed it, what for, what their position and the impact they want to have on society was, and their future visions. Therefore, I chose the iPhone as the centerpiece of smartphones I will be analyzing and an emphasis on applications. However, some of this information is relevant and interchangeable to all other smartphones. IPhones and smartphones allow us to access constant information and offer it the way we want it, as it is completely customizable now to fit our learning style. They keep us organized, send information to us in different ways, even shape and offer solutions such as for politics, economies, problems whether individual ones or globally. Smartphones capitalize on shared knowledge and has opened the door to inventors and those who have the knowledge to make our world a more connected place and lives easier by sharing it with us to use. We are able to communicate with other people far off, through space-time compression or shrinking-space to gather news and information.

Before 2007 electronic devices served customers to interact with the world, was primarily laptops, desktops for emails, web browsing, chat and e-commerce. Starting around early 2008, there was gradual shift towards tablets and smartphones. Critical question to probe and understand is what elements of the environment drove this structural shift. From a technology perspective tablets and smartphones use low powered CPU’s and RAM compare to their laptops and desktops brethren. They use both Wi-Fi and Cellular antenna to connect to World Wide Web. Cellular service provider’s data speed, which is the primary source for smart phone speed seen considerable improvement from 2G to 3G and further to 4G3.

Pew (2017) examined the change in ownership of smartphones over time in the United States, the relationship to owning other mobile devices, and the prevalence of smartphone dependency. American are increasingly connected to the “digital” world via smartphones and other mobile devices. According to Pew research surveys in 2017 over 95% of Americans own a cellphone of some kind while 77% own and operate a smartphone. The percentage of smartphone ownership has increased tremendously compared to the first survey conducted in 2011, where only 35% of Americans had a smartphone. Smartphone ownership also exhibits a wide variation based on age, household income and educational attainment while maintaining a correlation with ownership of other mobile devices.

In the history of smartphones, the revolutionary technologies have made a agreat transformation from the giant brick-structure smartphones in 1995 to slim and stylish form factor nowadays. Over the past few decades ago, smartphones become more abundant, for instance, 300 million units were sold world-wide in 2010 [] while one out of two Americans started using smartphones mobile phones in the year 2011 []. This has caused Smart mobile operating system (OS) to become a blazing hot issue, after Apple reintroduced the term “Smart” in a phone in the year 2007. An Android phone manufacturer, Samsung, sold 319.8 million units 32.2 percent, a 15% increase from 2012 whereas Apple sold 153.5 million iPhones worldwide with a 15.5 % market share. In the year 2013 alone, global smart phones shipments boost up 41 percent to reach a record-high 990 million units according to the Thomson Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news.

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.