Smartphones, The Pocket Sized Computers Are Becoming Increasingly Popular

As we step into a new decade, we are experiencing tremendous changes in the technological environment with constantly emerging advancements. Innovations are appearing everyday in a turbulent market flooded with big players and more new entrants everyday. Mobile phones have become an essential part of a person’s image and social identity.

“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.

The Internet is the biggest technological advancement of the century and is affecting how people go about their daily lives has influenced major life decisions. It enables people to instantly connect to anywhere in the world. These connections have allowed us to work and communicate with others without leaving the comfort of our own home. The recent invention of smartphones has made these tasks even easier by providing people with the same functions of a computer in the palm of a hand. This allows people to be connected to the rest of the world at any place and time without having to leave their own

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.

Smartphones can be life savers. Let's say that you are stuck in the woods and you don't know where you can go for safety. A while back it must’ve been hard to carry a huge map and compass around in your bag. But now you can

When you are on wifi, you aren't using data, which is very expensive. If you didn't have wifi you wouldn't be able to do some of your favorite things like watching Netflix, going on YouTube, or use social media. A lot of apps on phones need wifi to run. Without wifi, you couldn't play those games. Pretty much everything on your phone or tablet runs on wifi. Wifi saves you a lot of money because there are usually little to no data overage fees.

The use of smartphones has been on a tremendous increase globally. The smartphone technology has become so successful that business persons and employees would develop trouble imagining business operations without them. Some of the factors attributed to this extensive use of the smartphone are the growing need for technological advancements by individuals. In some societies, the smartphone is used in social class ranking. Those who possessed the smartphones were considered wealthier than those who didn’t. The smartphones, being a very new invention of humanity, has become an inherent part of human’s life. The smartphone is a combination of different sophisticated features. It allows users to keep memories, pictures, personal info, correspondence, health and financial data in one place. Smartphones also became an integral part of modern telecommunications facilities. In some regions of the world, they are the most reliable or only of available phones. Today, the smartphones have gained even more important uses with sophisticated features than ten years ago. Nearly all smartphones today use the touch screen controls instead of the original hardware buttons. The benefit of smartphones is a variable closely related to the demand (Wong, 646). Therefore the increased advantages of the smartphones have eventfully transpired to their high requirements in the global market. Moreover, when contemplating the switch from the regular cellphone to the smartphone, of new to the benefits

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.

Technology has, since the primitive years, always been used to invent tools in order to solve problems. This would, in turn, simplify and make man’s life easier. Through advancements in the field, man has become more efficient on both the macro- and microscopic level. Anything nowadays can be attained with either the flip of a switch or a click of a mouse. One particular technology that came about in this time was the smartphone. Since 2008, the smartphone, a device that combines a normal cell phone with a computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, e-mail capability, etc. all in your hand was deemed as ground-breaking technology and created one of the largest and most competitive market in terms of

Apart from being a communication device, smart phones offer additional features such as internet access, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, gaming, camera, multimedia messaging, FM radio, and multimedia functionalities (linux.com). With technological advancements, it resulted in decline in rate of adoption for laptops and personal digital assistants globally.

Indeed, it has become common for people to own a smartphone. Smura et al. (2009) stated that, “mobile phones have become an inseparable part of everyday life and a majority of people carry them all the time” and such is true especially towards the millennials.

Mobile devices have become a necessity in today’s world, and in today’s world no one can live without it, whether he is a businessman or a school going kid. It has made the world accessible and communication convenience, all at the touch of a button. There were days when the telephones, cell phones were only used to talk to one another and listen to each other now there is a small change one can even look at the person he is talking to while listening him these changes and advancements in technology are increasing day by day.

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.

In this age of technology, it is amazing how quickly a technological advance can become obsolete in a very short span of time. Nokia was the only name in cell phones in the early 2000’s, now some consumers have no idea who Nokia is. The next generation of cell phone buyers are loyal to Apple since their smartphone hit the market and offered applications that Nokia considered a fad. By the time Nokia did realize that it needed to act and create competition for Apple, it was too late. Prior to the introduction of Apple’s iPhone, the company was known for providing cell phones that were easy to use. By the mid-to-late 2000’s, the company began introducing phones that even with a manual, were hard to figure out. Nokia’s Symbian-based E51 phone was introduced in 2008 and one user noted that upon receipt, “wondered about it for a week” (Dilger, 2013). The user compared it to his purchase of the IPod Touch six months earlier and stated, “I ordered my iPod touch, turned it on, and knew immediately how to use it” (Dilger, 2013). He had used the device daily for a period of over six months and did not once have to refer to the manual. The article goes on to state that Apple’s IPod Touch “was a huge success all over the world” (Dilger, 2013). In comparison to Nokia’s Symbian, the user described the phone as