What is Smart Phone ?
Smartphone have a number of distinguishing features. The International telecommunication union measures those with Internet connection, which it calls Active Mobile-Broadband subscriptions. In the developed world, smartphones have now overtaken the usage of earlier mobile systems. However, in the developing world, they account for around 50% of mobile telephony.
Smartphone Brand's
Apple, Google Pixel, Samsung, Oppo, Realme, Motorola, Nokia, Jio and etc.
Impact of smart phones on society
Smartphones are popular among people for the applications they offer to users. Smartphones make communications with people quite easier. People enjoy a lot of benefits in various forms of their daily work. Some advantages smartphones provide – better means of communication, learning options to users, great exposure to the latest things, ways to personality development, simple ways to access applications, ideas to succeed in business, platforms to grow their applications and more.
- Impact on Business Smartphones create new dimensions for business. It is not only the smartphone vendors enjoying business but also created a new domain for app development companies, Internet service providers, and other related sectors.
- Impact on Education
Smartphones provide a unique way to improve the quality of education. The use of the Internet has become a part of life for every student. Internet together with Smartphones – provide an alternative channel to deliver education services and distance education. - Health Impact According to surveys, more than 10 million users in the USA use Smartphone to search for health information and facilities. 27% of the users use smartphones for online activities. Today there are several apps to manage prescriptions, promote alternative treatment options, provide price comparison, and validate prescriptions. Today several apps are available to track exercise, diet and blood pressure – enabling smartphones to play a key role in the health sector.
- Psychological Impact Smartphones are said to reduce stress in busy work life. I today’s busy schedules mobile phones provide a means to interact with friends and families as an when they get time. The smart use of Smartphone increases your brain’s functioning helping to stay active. Instead of using Smartphone only for entertainment it could be used to access useful information, for example, access the news headlines, latest technology updates, and more.
- Social Impact Social life has been drastically changed with the introduction of smartphones and this domain has encountered most of the impact from the use of smartphones. Smartphones play an important role in the integration process of people with special needs, elderly age and with some sort of disabilities.
Instant Communication
Smartphones evolved from the earliest communication devices. Thus, it has been created to primarily improve people’s way of communicating with each other. The advent of smartphone technology modernized communications. It has paved the way to SMS, text messaging, call, video chat, and apps that allow people to instantly communicate to everyone across the globe.
Web Surfing
The smartphones also make it convenient for people to surf the web. These devices are integrated with mobile browsers that enable them to research and access websites anytime and anywhere. According to a study, 10% of the total time spent by people on smartphones is used in opening browsers to surf the internet. With this, people have easy access to information.
Camera
In this “selfie” generation, the camera is so important. It saves people from buying a separate digital camera to take photos and videos. Especially now that the millennials are fond of posting photos in the social media. According to a 2014 comtech study, the camera ranked third as the most important consideration for consumers in buying a smartphone. With this, smartphone giants make sure their phones are equipped with the best camera.
Entertainment
Smartphones are also viewed as a source of entertainment – games, music, movies, and books. Based on the 2016 statistics, there are more than 63.7 million people in North America use smartphones for gaming. Moreover, users can listen to their favorite music with iTunes and Spotify, among others. Watching movies and reading e-books are also convenient through smartphones.
Education
Smartphones also aid education, especially in children. With easy access to information and helpful content, children can have a more interactive learning through watching education videos and playing education applications. They can also easily surf the internet if they want to search something about a topic.
Productivity Apps
Smartphones can do almost everything with the help of apps. There are over 2 million apps in Google Play Store while over 1.5 million apps in Apple App Store. People spend 90% of their time accessing apps in which an average user install 36 apps on their smartphone. The functionality of apps varies from each other – photo and video editor, ticket booking, online store, payment system, data analysis, personal assistant, etc.
GPS
Most smartphones now are equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS). This technology allows people to locate certain addresses and area all around the world. This helped improved not just communication, but most especially, transportation.
Privacy
With smartphones, you can do whatever you want without anyone knowing it. You can snap photos of yourself and secure your photo library with a password. You can also send messages to your loved ones without the fear of anyone knowing it. Online transactions can also be done through smartphones.
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