Study on Smartphone Usage

With the development of the telephone that was connected to a dialer via cable to wireless transmitted mobile phones. Reflecting on how she communicated in her youthful days, Mrs. Nguyen stated, “If we wanted to meet up somewhere, we would go to each other homes or meet at school and plan there, there were no such things as phones.” It is obvious to see that social change has taken place between generation X and Z. As the youth of generation Z are very reliant on mobile phones, found from the age of 13-17, 73% of teenagers obtain or are granted access to a smartphone and whereas 12% either choose not to have one or do

Whether you’re getting directions, calling a loved one to let them know you’re running a little late, or checking Facebook to catch up with an old high school friend, cell phones have began to dominate our technology based society due to their easy accessibility and endless uses. While “nine-in-ten Americans own a cell phone and nearly two-thirds own a smartphone,” the cell phone is has become one of the only things the vast majority of people deem necessary in their life (Rainie et al., 2015). “Ch 1: Always on Connectivity,” written by by Lee Rainie and Kathryn Zickuhr, explains how dependent adults really have become of our cell phones. “8 Fascinating Facts About How Teens Use The Internet And Social Media” elaborates

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.

Cell phones have provided citizens of America the ability to contact people by call, text, social media, or video chat. Many people my age have used this technology for communicating with friends, using for school work, and gathering all the latest trends that are spreading across America. Even though other generations have been introduced to cell phones, my generation has had the most experience

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

Smartphones raise a serious concern, especially among parents. This is due to both the psychological damage and danger that smartphones place on their children whose brains are not yet fully developed. According to a study conducted on 404 undergraduate students, three-fourths felt that they are dependent on their phones.() The increasing use and popularity of smartphones are an issue that can cause relationship issues, safety concerns, and distractions all which can be detrimental to society.

In today’s times, the smartphone is important to communicate. Having a smartphone could mean a matter of survival – particularly when traveling abroad, searching for directions, updating reports for work, connecting with friends, family and etc. The product I pick is the iPhone. When the iPhone was launched it rocks the world of every person. The appearances of the iPhone to Americans become a trend in smartphone history. The first smartphone to become a choice set of being sleek and user friendly. The iPhone affects Americans psychologically of having the idea how convenient to surf the internet using a portable device. Therefore, the iPhone became a personal handheld computer device to have easy access to browse the internet. Moreover, consumers

Everyday, our smartphones are becoming more and more part of our dress code. In America, over sixty-eight percent of the United States population owns some type of smartphone. The average American uses about 2 gigabytes of data each month. Also, the average

For the purposes of this study, the method used to select participants was convenience sampling. Therefore, 30 students from the University of the Ozarks located in Clarksville, Arkansas, were selected to participate in the study. The ages of the students ranged between 18 and 25 years. In order to conduct this study, a control group and an experimental group were created consisting of 15 members each. The first group was the experimental group where the participants were required to own an iPhone and download an app. The second group was the control group where participants owned any type of smartphones and did not have to download a specific app. The reason students had to be owners of an iPhone was

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.

The smartphone market is one of today’s most rapid growing industries. A smartphone is a technologically advanced communication device that not only performs the actions of a basic mobile phone, but it also allows the consumer to personalize the device with installable applications from an Internet based store for maximum functionality (Smartphone, 2015). A recent annual report from Mary Meeker on Internet trends reported that 87 % of young adults, those between the ages of 18 and 34, who own smartphones are never separated from them. Her report also showed that 4 out of 5 young adults say that they reach for their smartphones as soon as they awaken each day (Hackett, 2015).

In a smartphone communication survey conducted by Monica Anderson of Pew Research Center, smartphone users were observed over a one-week period. The study shows that 97 percent of usage on users’ smartphones is text messaging. It also shows that 92 percent of usage is communication through video or voice calls. Less than 50 percent make up music, podcasts, and navigation. This survey concludes that smartphone users spend most of their usage time through communicating with friends and family (Anderson, 2015). The high percentages are because communication through smartphones is convenient, helpful, creative, fun, and accessible when it comes to communicating with friends and family and also long distance relationships. Smartphone communication features can benefit, rather than harm, how society communicates with one another.

(Ofcom, 2014) Nevertheless, every user use the mobile for different reasons. There are four main focus of mobile and smartphone usage. First, send and receive E-mails, 79 percent of mobile users are using their devices sending and receiving E-mails not less than one time a week in recent. The majority users are 35-44 years old, 84 percent, and the lowest percentage, 67 percent, is 65+ years old. Next, social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumblr, or Pinterest was applied by seven in ten of mobile users and visiting those websites everyday at least once. Besides, the percentage of gaming users in 2007 and 2014 is increasing between 31 and 44 percent, respectively, and 25-44 years old persons are the majority of those. The last is media activities, the minority watch free TV programmes such as Sky by using mobile devices accounted for 13 percent. (Ofcom, 2015)

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.