Smart PhonesSmart Phones

Sohaib Khan

Preview of PointsPreview of Points• What is a smart phone?• Advantages and disadvantages of smart

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

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: Android Apple and Window?

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

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• Can be big distraction

(work/school environment etc.

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.

Effects on Effects on communicationcommunication

• Helps creates less awaked moments

• 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.

SOME FACTS• Research has found that

most people prefer using their smart phones even to watch news than any other forms of media.

• 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.

Available from http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/07/smartphone-mobile-breaking-news/ (accessed 20 Nov 2013)

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