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Smart PhonesSmart Phones
Sohaib Khan
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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CITED WORKCITED WORK• Raymon, R (2010). Smartphone Use and Productivity Are Rising: How Does This
Affect Your Business. Available from http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2010/04/smartphone-use-and-productivit.html/. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
• Daniel, R (2010). The Effect of Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc) For Children. Available from http://newstodaynews.com/the-effect-of-social-networking-facebook-twitter-myspace-etc-for-children/12286. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
CameraPhonesPlaza(2009). Smartphones In Education. Available from http://www.cameraphonesplaza.com/smartphones-in-education/. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
Coustan, D, Stickland, J. How Smartphones Work. Available from• http://communication.howstuffworks.com/smartphone4.htm(accessed 20 Nov 2013)