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Smart Phone – An asset transforming the world

Earlier communication of people between different area, cities or countries was very difficult. People used to communicate through letters, then after many years, telephone was invented. There were two inventors Antonio Meucci and Charles Bourseul, who invented telephone in 1849 and 1854 respectively. Then, in 1876 Alexander Graham bell invented first patent telephone. After almost hundred years in 1973 first handheld or cordless mobile phone was invented by Dr. Martin Cooper, which made communication more effortless.

Then, after some years smartphone came into the picture. The first ever smartphone was launched in 1994 by a tech company called IBM and started getting popularity in early 2000’s and in some country mid of 2000’s.

What is Smart Phone

A smartphone is basically a combination of a computer and a cell phone. Smartphones also serves as cameras, satellite, navigation devices, media players, and the device we can connect to internet.

We can also say that smartphone is a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of computer.

When we add the prefix ‘smart’ to a device’s name, it means that it has advanced computing features.

Why Smartphone is a necessity nowadays?

With the help of smartphone people can communicate with each other very easily. But apart from communication there are many other reasons, that a smartphone has become an important asset in humans’ life. Some major factors are: -

·       Smartphone as a source of information: Smartphones have internet access and capabilities by which people can easily access different kinds of educational website through the internet on their mobile phone.

·       Smartphone saves money: Today communication has become way easier than it was before. Earlier people used to spend a lot of money to communicate with each other through internet by using different applications on smartphone.

·       Smartphone saves time: Smartphone helps in saving a lot of time. We can send messages in just less than a second, we can create documents or pdfs within few minutes, we can book train, flight, bus tickets, we can book hotels, cabs, within 2 to 3 minutes.

·       Smartphone allows us to become Social: Smartphone provides an opportunity to become socially active and allows us to do some social activities and making connection with different people all around the world through apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any other social media apps.

·       Smartphone helps in travelling: Smartphone is a very handy device that it can taken by us where ever we want by just keeping it in our pockets or purse etc. While travelling a handy smartphone helps in finding location with the help of google map application. If we are at some unknown place, within few seconds we can easily find out the place name and also the description of the place.

·       Smartphone is used for entertainment: Now a days smartphones are most popular used for entertainment purpose. Smartphones have different kinds of entertainment features. Now a days smartphones have big HD display to watch movies, songs, and play games on it.

·       Smartphones camera: It can be used to capture memorable moments of our life. Now a days, there is lot of new features coming in smartphones, that allows us to capture high quality photos and videos. Many vloggers and video makers, shoot whole videos on smartphone and even edit the video in phone.

·       Alarm and reminders: Smartphones are digital personal assistant. We can set alarm and remiders on our phones. We can also make a to do lists and set alarm or reminder on our smartphone to remind.

·       Play Games: Today we are living in an era where mobile gaming is full time profession of many people all around the world. Mobile gamers are making huge amount of money all over the world.

·       Learning and Research using smartphone: Smartphones are the most beneficial digital device used for learning and research purposes. In recent times, due to covid outbreak the whole world was in lockdown. But the learning didn’t stop. Many people who do not have laptop or PC, they studied online with the help of smartphones.

To every pro there is cons as well

Some cons of smartphones are as follows:

·       Spending more time on smartphone creates sleep deprivation and neck pain.

·       Heavy internet usage might lead to electromagnetic radiation effect on our brain and skin causing tumors and cancers.

·       Children can be affected physically and mentally due to unwanted exposure to HEV light of screen.

·       It can create psychological issues such as loneliness, anti-social disorders, etc.

However, there are two sides of coin. Always look for positive and helpful aspect of anything and leave negative aside. To sum it up, a smartphone is a revolutionary device, that has always contributed for our betterment, its just that we have to use is wisely.

As “Arianna Huffington” says “We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it”.