Mobile Phones
A mobile phone used to be a device that was capable of sending and receiving calls, also sending and receiving SMS. Nowadays this is not apparent and this is due to the birth of the smart-phone. The smart-phone changed the generations of phones because it meant easy access to the Internet on a handheld device that nowadays almost every person you see has a smart-phone. I myself have a HTC so I am one of the many who have a smart-phone. Truthfully I don't use my smart-phone only for calls and texts but to surf the Internet and for the majority of the time I also go on Facebook...the worlds leading social networking site. As a result of phones are so small it means that they are easily transportable to everywhere you go which means almost 100% of the time people have instant access to the Internet from wherever they are.
There are good things about having Internet on your smart-phone and that is that you can stay in touch with friends and family that live quite a distance from where you are but also more importantly for people who run businesses it means they can send and receive emails as and when they need to. Mobile phones nowadays do fulfil their intended purpose however I believe that it is correct to say that they are no longer just mobile phones but miniature computers.
This little table shows us how many people actually uses the Internet on their phones. It seem like the figures have come out as I had predicted them to be. This is that the younger the age group in the table the higher the percentage of people in that age group that use the Internet on their phone for whatever reason. This again is obviously the digital divide for the people in the UK that cannot afford Internet on a phone or more worrying the fact that they might not be able to afford a phone. But the reason why usage gets lower as the age group increases because the older generations of people will not be into technology as much as the younger generations. Statistics taken from: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/index.html?pageSize=50&sortBy=none&sortDirection=none&newquery=mobile+internet
History of the Mobile Phone
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Mobile phones are something of the past unfortunately, this was a result of the birth of the smartphone. Long gone are the days when a mobile phone seemed like the biggest leap in technology, going from something like a massive computer in the 1980's compacted down into something the size of a brick. The years have passed and technology has become more and more complex due to two factors; innovative ideas and breakthroughs by phone developers and second to that, the demand from the public because of the desperate attitude to try new technology.
Mobile phones were first invented to enable people to ring a text each other while moving around to increase the convenience of contacting in important situations, even back then mobile phones were so expensive that only wealthy people had a mobile phone for personal use. Smartphones can be used for much more than what mobile phones were actually made for. As well as calling and texting people under circumstances I also use my smartphone for a lot more, the term 'smart' usually an object has Internet capabilities. This is the fundamental part because as soon as you introduce Internet capabilities to an object it opens so many doors, for example with my Internet allowance it enables me to; buy and download applications and games on my phone, use social networking sites on my phone to keep up to date with the latest happenings going on amongst my friends, Google search anything that I want just like doing it on a computer, send and receive emails on my phone so I don't miss anything if someone emails me and last but not least play online games with my friends. All of the listed above can be performed just by having an Internet enabled phone, so you can really see how one factor can trigger a colossal amount of outcomes.
Advantages
The beauty of it all being able to be done on my HTC is that I can do it anytime I want and when I choose to do it. Before the mobile phone was introduced you either had to find a phone box or phone people from the house phone, whereas now everything can be done from my current location conveniently. Major benefits of using a mobile phone is that you can easily contact people as and when you need to without any aggravation. If you need to speak with them urgently then you can call them quickly but for less urgent questions then you can just text them and they will reply when they are free and able to. With smartphones it enables you to keep in touch of distant relatives that you are unable to contact through calling and texting. Also if you need to refer to an email that you have received from a company and need to present it to them to get a discount for example, then you can just open the email there and then to show them rather than having to print it out. If there is a requirement for you to check the weather or news to discover the most recent happenings in the area around you then you can easily surf the Internet and go onto the BBC website or other various sites as well. I believe my phone does fulfil it's purpose because the original use of a mobile phone was that it could call and text people to maximise convenience when contacting someone, I use my phone regularly for this purpose and so i happily say that yes my phone does fulfil it's purpose.
Disadvantages
As with all advantages of having new technology there is always disadvantages that come with it. the main disadvantage being the fact that all smartphones are annoyingly prone to smash the first time you drop it and so if they break then it becomes a monumental problem because then you have to ether get it fixed or replace it with a new phone if the damage is that bad. More commonly nowadays along with texting there is a new kind of language called text language, in my opinion this is the most pointless invention ever and it displays nothing but laziness and because of this it there is talk that young children that get phones will use this text language more than speaking proper English and therefore will affect the quality of English that they speak and write.
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