Thesis: Smartphones are the new way people connect with their friends and associates.
The types of smartphones are endless, but the options are pretty much limited to either
Android phones or Apple phones. Everyone has different opinions about their phone.
Some people hate it, but some people love it. There are many factors that contribute to make Android look good just like there are many factors that contribute to make Apple look good.
Thing 1: Apple
Thing 2: Android
Topic: More secure and more users friendly. Topic: Combination of a large variety of phones and low prices.
Supporting Fact: Apple only uses their own programs.
Supporting Fact: Androids use different programs, so there is more variety.
Analysis: iTunes, and other programs are apple affiliated. This makes it so iPhones are more secure and can’t get viruses as easy, but people are forced to conform to
Apple products and their ways.
Analysis: Androids can get viruses from the many programs it has, but there is more room to play with Androids.
Supporting Fact: Easier to navigate, but no variability. Supporting Fact: Much variability, but not as easy to navigate.
Analysis: The user interface is more kid and elderly friendly. All the apps are on the homescreen.
Analysis: There are many different apps you could download, but it’s harder to navigate because not all of the apps are on the homescreen.
Supporting Fact: Cameras have a little better quality, but the zooming is not as good. Supporting Fact: Android cameras
Over the years social interaction and how school activities has been decreasing due to cell phone usage. In articles “Cell Phones are Changing Social Interaction” and “Does cell phone use really affect our communication skills” it states the different ways how social interaction became different and how people of the older generation have more ability to social interaction than young adults at this moment. To agree with these statements in “Cell Phones are Changing Social Interaction” it covers on how Cell Phones may be changing how people are changing their expectations for social interaction, Also how people of this generation use phones more than people in the older generation,and on “Does cell phone use really affect our communication skills ?” it covers on how studies show that homework is interrupted and children become distracted when they receive notifications of a new chat message,texts, or emails. So let me let you know about how social interactions have decreased due to cell phones. To start off, Cell Phones may be changing how people are changing their expectations for social interaction. According to the second paragraph on “Cell Phones are Changing Social Interaction” it states “Having a cell phone completely changed my social life. This is what my sons told me after we finally got them cell phones when they were in high school. I also have a cell phone, but don’t feel having it changed my social life. For my sons, however, the
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In this present generation, everywhere you look someone is either talking, texting, or surfing the web on their cell phone. Even children can undertake the features and tools of a cell phone. According to statistics, “Ninety-one percent of American adults and sixty percent of teens own a cell phone” (Borreli). A clear majority of induvial can say that they are part of one of those stated percentages. Likewise, many people depend on the handy device and pay less attention to the effects that cell phones have on the significance of social interactions. All things considered, cell phones have contributed positive impacts through keeping in touch with others to emergency use, as well as eroded social skills to fatal accidents resulting in negative impacts.
For America, everything is innovative. Each day our lives get easier. Especially with today’s modern technology. Smartphones were a huge advancement for America. They are basically computer in our pockets. We can use them to get in touch with someone anywhere in the world. We have a phone, calculator, calendar, clock, timer, stopwatch, compass, alarm, the news, the weather, reminders, a camera, MP3 player, and map all in our hand. No matter where we are in the entire world! America’s gift to my generation is technology.
Are smartphones bad for relationships? Almost everyone has a smartphone nowadays, but how does it affect our relationships with others? In the article “Smartphones and Relationships” by Mandy Oaklander of Time Health, Mandy states that smartphones are destroying relationships.
“Cell phones cannot help people learn! Cell phones only make children dumber. Children and adults alike are not really learning when they search for answers on the internet.” These are phrases that are most commonly used by opponents of the rapidly adjusting modern society we live in today. However, cell phones and social media are an attribute to society in many ways.
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.
Why do cell phones have such a major impact on social interaction? Most people may believe it’s a little electronic device used for communication and in some cases emergency, but in this generation, it is very far from that. The impact isn’t so much on the older generation but on young adults. And here’s why. One of the biggest reasons on why it has such an impact is on how much young adults rely on texting. Cell phones limit the way we young adults learn how to interact with people face to face because we rely on communicating through text message and social media. According to research “over 80% report texting as their preferred method of communication”. When it comes to having a relationship that can almost double the amount of time spent on your phone because you want to keep in contact with your
In this term paper will talk about Mobile Computing and Social Networks and how they totally work. It will assess the strength and efficiency, mobile-based applications provide to capture geolocation data and customer information, and quickly upload to a processing server without users having to employ a desktop system. It will evaluate the benefits realized by consumers because of the ability to gain access to their own data via mobile applications. It will analyze the challenges of evolving applications that run on mobile devices because of the small screen size. It will identify the methods that can be applied to decide which platform to support, I. e., iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, or Android. It will also talk about Mobile
With a wide range of different phone designs, more freedom to do what you want, and an applaudable display size, some people prefer the Android over the iPhone. Although the iPhone has offered more choices than when they first came out, a customer still only has three screens and five colors to choose from (Smith). The android has more options with waterproof phones, different screen sizes, more colors, different materials and so much more. Androids have so many phone companies a customer
The smartphone industry is a very up and coming place. In the US, more than 77% of adults own a smartphone (Smith). There are many different kinds of smartphones. They can vary in shape, size, color, and brand. Two of the largest brands of smartphone are Samsung and Apple. They make two of the hottest phones on the market right now. Just recently Samsung made the Galaxy S8, and Apple came out with the iPhone 8. Both phones are reported to be top of the line. Both being high-end devices have many similarities, but they also have differences that set them far apart from each other.
Today’s technology allows one to make friends on the opposite side of the world; one can see another’s hobbies, music, and photos with just a click of a mouse. Nevertheless, one’s profile isn’t always what it seems; people generate fake accounts to talk to strangers. Under a pseudonym, people can protect their identity and portray themselves as someone different; this is known as Catfishing. In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the characters don’t have the technology we have now, but a shipwreck began the series of Catfishing in the Dukedom Illyria. The confusing love triangle encompasses Viola as a girl who dresses as a man named Cesario and falls in love with Duke Orsino; however, he loves Countess Olivia who has fallen in love with Cesario.
The pace of technological advancement is speeding up. For example, when cell phones were first available to people the most they were able to do was make calls and text. Now with these advances in technology cell phones have evolved into smartphones with different functions. However with every step forward in technology, society takes a step back to learn how to adapt. Currently, people should be getting used to the most recent evolution of smartphones, however they’re too distracted texting, tweeting, and instagramming pictures of pointless things. Although uses of smartphones might seem harmless, theres a problem. People’s overuse of smartphones make society feel okay with behavior that is harmful to health, relationships, and the feeling of being public. Which is why there should be more people educated with smartphone etiquette.
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.
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