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Smartphones and Mobile

Phone TechnologyAndrew Chang, Naeun Choi, Nicholas Delrose, Charlotte Gilmore,

Silvia Manolache

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What are we talking about??

The world is flat

Bringing people together.....?

Changing the way things work.

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"Text messages are like little sugar rushes of contact,postcards from the people's cyberspace, the realreason God gave us thumbs and the capacity forlanguage"

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History

- The first official mobile phoneused in Sweden by the Swedishpolice in 1946; could make 6phone calls before car's batterywas drained

- development of first cell phone(creation of towers/cells at BellLabs in 1947- FCC?- 1983 Motorola DynaTAC 8000Xmade commercially available: 2lbs, $3,500- 1991 Motorola MicroTac Lite thelightest phone: $1,000

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History cont.

- 2nd generation: from the early1990's- smaller, better batteries, hugeincrease in popularity- 3rd generation: include 2

Megabits of maximum data rateindoors and 384 kbits foroutdoor use- include internet access andother modern innovations- 1993 IBM developed firstsmartphone, Simon

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Uses

- Smartphones provide portableuse of IT- Entertainment Uses:games, music (mp3 player),books (e-book), and digital

television broadcast- Social Uses: phone call, textmessage, wireless internet(access to e-mail, social

networking websites)- Organization Uses: calendar,finance manager, addressbook, storage for data

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Uses cont.

- Hospital Uses: used to viewimage (x-ray, MRI, etc).means of communicationbetween nurses and clinicians.

- Museum Uses: audio guide isprovided through cell phones.

- China: mobile learningprovides access to lecturesand test preps.

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Benefits

Mobile technology is key tokeeping in touch in themodern world.

Text messaging

Smart Phones aren't onlyused for communication,but for organizingschedules, jotting downnotes, playing music,games, checking theweather, and otherapplications.

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Benefits Cont.

Cell Phones"revolutionized longdistance calling", making itmuch more inexpensive forlong distance

communication. Cell phone logs have also

been helpful in court caseswhere they can be used as

evidence. (You mayalso consider this adisadvantage)

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Criticisms

- negative health affects

(increases resting bloodpressure, reduces productionof melatonin, related toAltzeimers's Disease, linkedto cancer)

- increased stress level(fatigue, headache, difficultyin concentration, disturbancein sleep)

- male infertility- effect on children; the"blackberry father"- risk in driving- reduced privacy

- effects on language

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Summary/Opinion

Mobile technology andsmart phones play a majorrole in every day life, andtheir importance is

expected to continue, andeven increase in thefuture.

The pho

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