Smartphones

“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

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

“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.

Thesis statement: Even though smartphone is popular all over the world. However, it provides not only the convenient but also the risk to our life

Today people of the world have a new addiction. This new addiction is known as the smartphone. The smartphones of today have so many features that the owners of them can hardly seem to put them down just for a second. These smartphones not only offer some of the same features that a personal computer would, but they also provide a very high level of entertainment. Even with all the capabilities that smartphones offer they still require and great level of understanding and responsibility. The purpose of this paper is to help others understand the direction of smartphone technology, the ways smartphone technology changes society, understand the impact of change and manner in which we live our lives, and how smartphones could potentially create hazardous situations.

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.

In 2007, the remote business took a dramatic turn. While aficionados and non-endeavor clients had discovered different uses for their cell phones than email and work, the primary capacity of such gadgets was keeping representatives inside of scope and joined far from the work area. Cell phones were principally utilized for correspondence and light Web searching on the train.

In recent years smartphones have become increasingly popular with “roughly three-quarters of Americans (77%) now own a smartphone.”However, until a decade ago our modern-day smartphones came out, with the first being the iPhone. Due to its popularity, Google created the android system, released in the G1 smartphone a year later. Accordingly, with their advance technology, additional features, and affordability more consumers started buying Smartphones, resulting in full range audience, from children to elderly. Although other types of smartphones have been created, such as Blackberry’s and Window’s phones, none have been successful like the androids and iPhones. Even though androids and iPhones have obvious differences, they are more similar through their accessories, performances, and displays. (Smith, A)

Sleeping disorder :Most of the teens keep their smart phones nearby while sleeping to respond to calls and texts . They feel pressurized to remain reachable around the clock. It leads to sleep interruption and disruption. Teens also become irritable when they are sleep deprived.

PC magazine defines a smartphone as “the greatest tech revolution since the Internet” (PCmag). Smartphones have combined many functions that used to be performed by multiple devices all into one. Smartphone users have the ability to navigate directions through the phones GPS system, surf the web any time they want right from their device, play music, take pictures, record video, text message friends and family members, and make phone calls.

Technology has been a staple of the Bay Area’s collective identity for several decades now, but not all of its residents have been represented in this identity. The influx of technology-related jobs have brought in new culture, new markets, and new opportunities, but people in lower economic classes have been excluded from many of these developments. The smartphone is at the locus of this change, for it functions as both the means and the ends of exclusion. In particular, the smartphone’s function of enabling users to use existing technologies in new contexts, more than any other function, perpetuates existing class hierarchies.

Today, smartphones and other mobile devices are playing a greater central role in how people are entertained, communicate, network, work, bank, shop, and how employees interact in a corporation. Times are changing and everything is growing within the mobile market--whether in performance, storage, applications, or abilities--have been occurring at an extremely rapid pace. However, there is basic area in which broad time and circumstances in expansion have not been realized on mobile devices, especially when compared to the personal computer, and that area is security. While mature security software such as antivirus is of existence on laptops and desktops, almost all mobile devices today remain completely without security protection; and

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.