The Advancement In Smart Phones And The Internet

David Rode, Tech Editor
December 12, 2011
Filed under Green, Health & Science, Tech

Smart phones and Apple products: these cell phones are technologically genius and are all great updates for the current day, but while their main purpose is to help us communicate, we overlook it and use them for everything else. New editions of the Droid, HTC, Blackberry, and the IPhone 4S have come out in the market and, without a doubt, millions will be sold. It is true that these new cell phones are handy and useful, but their sole purpose of communication is being rejected while the use of their ability to access the Internet and text message has skyrocketed. Besides these good accessories, they are no longer making cell phones but “Smart” phones.

This new technology enabling people to access the Internet from their phones may be used for important things such as for school, work, documents, books, news, and also just to search random things they want answered. But although smart phones can work toward educational values, they are more commonly used for social media and networking purposes. Because more people use their smart phones and iPhones to go on social networks like Facebook or Twitter, this might be thought as a step forward for cell phone technology, but is it actually a step in the right direction?

Smart phones and iPhones can be very useful at times as well as efficient, but they are not as essential as we may think. Remember the last time you may have forgotten your phone at home or it died on you. Did you feel comfortable and keep going on, your day not phased a bit, or did you dwell on it and worry that someone had texted you or posted on Facebook?

Comic drawn by Alexia Cunha, a Woodside Art Student

“The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone….or other electronic device,” said Tamar Lewin of the the New York Times. Although this statement may seem like a generalization, another article, written by Amanda Lenhart in the PewInternet: Research Center, shares this idea. “It is said that 93% of both teens and young adults are online and use social networks.”“Wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age group,” PewInternet: Research Center said once again. “We often look to younger generations to see where technology use might be headed in the future.” Despite that this is a reasonable and true statement, it is destroying young adult society and the future of children if corporations invest in spoiling our youth.

Compared to cell phones ten years ago, the cell phones we use today are a huge technological advancement. Today, we have smart phones with touch screens and the capacity to access the Internet. In 2003-4, motorola “flip” razer phones were the most common, popular, and updated phones of the time. In just 8 years, cell phones have been advanced so highly that we can now use them to replace laptops. Based on size, range of communication, and access to Internet, smart phones may actually be more convenient than laptops, making them preferable.

Nonstop, millions of people all over the world are buying and using smart phones not just for calling their friends and parents, but to text and use the Internet. Because of all the continual funding towards updating cellular phone technology, social networking will become easier and easier to access.

Currently, society has been engrossed by this constant desire to use smart phones to further the use of communication that outstretches the sole function of calling and text messaging. This is not the specific focus of these cell phones though; communication over the years has changed completely from hearing the voice of another to posting what’s on your mind for the rest of the community to not only view but now comment and reply. With all these advancements, where are we gong now? Funding has given technology the ability to range farther than any basic cell phone could have ever reached, although not in the right direction. Which direction is the right one now?

Tags: cell phones, Internet, iphone, procastination, smart phones, technology, teenagers

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