Smart PhonesSmart Phones

ContentsContents• Introduction• What is a smart phone?• Advantages and disadvantages of smart

phones.• Effects on productivity• Effects on communication• Effects on education• Some facts• More facts

IntroductionIntroduction• In this presentation we

will see how smart phones affect our day to day lives.

• You will get to know more about smart phones.

• The advantages and disadvantages of smart phones.

What is a smart phone?What is a smart phone?• A smart phone is a phone with more advanced computing

abilities and includes the following features:

- QWERTY keyboard: The keyboard is laid out in the same form as that of a computer keyboard.

- Web access: It can access the web at higher speeds.

- Operating system: This allows the phone to run productivity applications.

- Software: The smart phone software will have the ability to do more.

- Messaging: A smart phone supports multiple e-mail accounts. It also grants access to a number of instant messaging

applications.

Advantages and disadvantages of Advantages and disadvantages of smart phonessmart phones

Advantages

• They are multifunctional.

• They make it easy to stay in touch.

• Quick to communicate with.

• Easy internet access anywhere.

Disadvantages

• Expensive• Can be complicated• Less personal• Chat rooms slow down

productivity in day to day life.

Effects on productivityEffects on productivity

• Businesses become slow as employees are too stuck on to their phones.

• It makes production faster in the sense that producers can contact each other much faster and conveniently than before.

• Employers can transfer e-mails and other information between employees in a short time span.

Effects on Effects on communicationcommunication

• Teenagers struggle to socialise facially with each other because they become used to chat rooms where they do not see each others actions.

• People become ignorant about communicating with people they do not know.

• Smart phones make communication much easier when one has to get hold of a friend/ family member.

Effects on educationEffects on education

• Students are too busy on their phones to concentrate in class.• Students invest too much time on social networking than they

do in their studies.• It disrupts a students’ study time-table.• It affects students’ English grammar where they start using

“chat language” while writing essays and any other school work.

• Smart phones can help educators to do their job.• It could also be useful in the sense that schooling institutions

could initiate a chat rooms where students can go online for help with their school work.

Some factsSome facts

• Research has found that 68% of people are addicted to their smart phones and that a number of students have replaced their laptops with smart phones.

• “According to Mashable: In a survey of 300,000 mobile consumers, 88% of whom owned a device running one the five most popular smart phone operating systems, more than 30% said that mobile is the “most important medium” to access breaking news, narrowly followed by desktop web browsers (29%), television (21%) and newspapers (3%).” (http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/07/smartphone-mobile-breaking-news/. 30 March 2011)

MORE FACTSResearch has found that most people prefer using their smart phones even to watch news than any other forms of media.

Available from http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/07/smartphone-mobile-breaking-news/ (accessed 30 March 2011)

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