In specific word a smartphone is a mobile phone with a operating system and a much more advanced computing connectivity ability that is akin to a computer. It is a one-stop solution for information management, making or receiving calls, writing short messages, and accessing the Internet. Modern smart phones, on top of all these in-built applications, also run a myriad of free and paid applications. However those smartphones have made a large impact on our society,inclunding positive and negative impact due to the big use.
Estimatedely in Europe 70% of the global population is now using smartphones instead of a normol cell phone. In the next part,we are going to eradicate most of the impact done on our society like the large growth of the mobile sector,the easier communication and the impact done on our health and environment. Developpement. Smartphones have transformed the single-minded cell phone into a mobile personal computer (Zheng & Ni, 2010).
They are hand-held devices which integrate a mobile phone’s common features in a simple PDA. The small operating system in smartphones have an interface for a small touchscreen.
The four main types of smartphones is the iPhone, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry. Although the Symbian smartphones have sold more than any other phone in the world, Nokia switched from its native Symbian to the platform of the Microsoft Phone, selling millions of devices – attaining the position as the second-most selling smartphone globally. As Jason Perlow said:”Technology can enable us reach out to people in ways that were never possible before, but at the same time, it is also extremely capable of bringing out the absolute worst of humanity as well.
’’Tech Broiler,September 2013,we are actually observing this phenomen in our surroundings through the use of smartphone. Smarphones have a large positive impact on our society but also a negative one. In assessing the positive impact of smart phones on our society, there are two major areas which have vastly affected by smart phones, and they are business and socialization. Over the past couple years, the number who use smart phones has been increased rapidly. According to one research company’s longitudinal surveys, “about 42 percent of Americans owned smart phones in December 2009” (mobilehealthnews, 2010).
And it will continue to grow in the next decade as Cody Barbierri has mentioned in his article “smart phones are one of the hottest growth sectors in our economy right now. Usage continues to grow, even after significant growth over the past two years” (Cody Barbierri, 2010).
Many of the smart phones applications available today will not impact a majority of people’s lives; but it does impact groups of people who take advantage of it, included businessmen As a slogan for all smart phones users ‘your life is in your pocket’, more people are attracted to these devices which own a lot of useful features.
Further than that, the latest generation of smart phones have provided more great social applications and powerful entertaining function to anyone who love social network. In fact, today more people like to be able to connect to their friends through social networks. These social networks are a new trend in online communication. Therefore, Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter apps have became a standard requirement for people who would like to own a smart phone and teenager are among those people The first negative impact deals with safety hazards associated with use of the mobile phone.
As with all technology there is a possibility of it affecting or causing a disruption of something else already in use. Manufactures generally provided some type of warning indicator or instructions of where not to use or place the technology. This evidently is often overlooked because “… there have been instances of mobile phones exploding, causing deaths. This can happen due to overheating defective battery or even wrong usage of battery or charger. Mobile phones are known to disrupt normal functionality of pacemakers.
Mobile phone usage while driving has increased road accidents. It is estimated that drivers are four times more likely to crash their cars when they are speaking on their mobile phones while driving” (Radhakrishna, 2010) Regarding the bad impact of smartphones“Excessive use of mobile phones is believed to increase the risk of brain cancer, especially among children. Children have thinner skulls and fragile nervous system. Daily usage of mobile phones for ten years doubles the risk of tumor of auditory nerve which connects the ear to the brain.
People using mobile phones for more than four hours every day are at the risk of lowering their sperm count” (Radhakrishna, 2010).
The final category deals with the environmental hazards of using mobile phones. This information alludes to facts of how the forms of cell phone technology can disrupt natural environment in negative ways. For example “Excessive radiation is believed to be causing extinction of many species of small birds like sparrows. This will definitely have a huge negative impact on our environment. We depend on bees for crops, because they pollinate crops.
These bees are disappearing. Radiation from mobile phones are interfering with navigation system of bees and causing them to lose their way back to their hive. As a result of this their colonies are collapsing” (Radhakrishna, 2010).
Conclusion
This report identified and examined various things in regards to smartphone technology and the impact that smartphones have on society as a whole. From the information provided we can conclude that smartphones are definitely the wave of the future, and as phone user’s needs become more complicated, cellular phones will have a harder task to fulfill.
Smartphones, just like any other piece of technology, will always have issues, problems, and challenges that need to be addressed. It basically comes down to personal responsibility. When dealing with smartphones, a person can use this technology to their benefit for example using a smartphone device to send off an important document that’s seconds from being late. Then again, you have people that will abuse the smartphone like so many people we see today driving and texting at the same time. All in all, the smartphones impact on society will always be what society itself allows.