Mobile Phones Today

Smartphones were becoming much known and everyone wanted to have one. Many students had touchscreen phones, but the rest had a Blackberry or flip phones. Students in school always believed that having a high tech touchscreen phone was the top thing, but that was not what I wanted when I was in high school. When I was in high school I had a Blackberry which didn’t have internet. I thought my phone was decent and it worked fine to call and receive text messages.

How are Cell Phones Impacting Society? How are cell phones impacting society? Negatively or Positively? The fact is, cellphones can have a negative and a positive impact. It all depends on your cellular etiquette.

Cell phones are amazing things that allow us to so many great things, but are causing us to loose sight to what really matters? Cell phones should not be allowed to be out during school hours but should not be completely banned from the school campus. They are used as status symbols, a way to measure self worth and make us lose touch with reality.

There is a new and more powerful drug that is plaguing our nation and the sad thing, is everyone in our nation is addicted to this deadly drug, the cell phone.

Thesis: The usage of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and has sadly became the main resource of communication.

The cell phone technology that is ever changing by the day was scientifically invented and born back in the early 1980’s. Science was the main key to the birth of the cell phone which was put together by the Motorola Company who today is still making cell phones. Before the cell phone came out the car phone was the first mobile phone which were very large and had to be hooked up to a briefcase which supplied the power for the mobile phone. Science was the utilized to create the cell phone and today the use of cell phones has brought literature to the palm of our hands.

The expanding use of cellular phones and the advancements of modern-day technology are leading the way for a broadening perspective and interpretation of our Fourth Amendment right. Modern technology, such as cellular phones, challenge the standards of an individual 's right to privacy as set forth in our Bill of Rights, Amendment No. 4. The conduct of illegal search 's and or seizures became more prevalent with the introduction of the cellphone, thus demanding the Supreme Court revisits our Fourth Amendment with a modern-day spin.

Think about it. If one was to walk into an airport right now, what are the chances of spotting a person without a cell phone in their hand or a computer on their lap? Very slim. In the modern culture, technology has become a huge part of everyday life. This is replacing social interactions with social media and love letters with messaging and genuine friends with far away strangers. Over the course of technology development, social and communication skills have greatly decreased due to dependence on such devices, thus being a direct effect.

The very first concept of a smartphone is said to have been envisioned back in the mid-1970s, but that idea didn’t come into fruition until almost 20 years later when IBM’s Simon Personal Communicator first showed its face in 1992. Simon had a monochrome touchscreen, a stylus, and a charging base station. When using data, you could expect to charge the phone after about 60 minutes of use (P. 7). Nokia entered the not-yet-developed smartphone space in 1996. It released the Nokia 9000 Communicator to the world, a 1.5-inch thick, 397g phone with an outward facing dial pad, navigation keys, and monochromatic display. Unlike Simon, from the outside, the 9000 Communicator looked almost like a run-of-the-mill cell phone from 1996 (P. 10). In the early 2000s, Symbian, BlackBerry OS, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile (then known as PocketPC 2000) became increasingly popular. With capabilities such as email, fax, Web browsing, and other enterprise-centric features, so did form factors that catered to such use cases. Between 2000 and 2006, cell phone manufacturers eagerly explored dozens of different form factors to capitalize on the new mobile functionality. Sliding and flipping keyboards, rotating displays, wafer-style phones with displays positioned above permanent, vertical keyboards, and even phones with multiple keyboards abounded. Resistive touchscreen displays found their way onto smartphones, and the popularity of the stylus was born, almost out of sheer need as these early model

Walking down a street and you see many individuals walking around constantly looking down on some handheld device ,without a lack of any sense of direction or even giving any status of another being exist, especially in our generation. This seems to be not a problem at moment, but with advancement of technology and new ways of meeting people digitally is seems people feel it’s appropriate to constantly be on their mobile devices without any consequences or surroundings. With Mobile device and other forms of wireless communication also effecting on distracting driving. The use of cell phones pose a risk for society in many ways involving cell phone conversations and texting or instant messaging in car distract drivers, and create safety hazard; also it can be a health concern, the overuse of cell phones can result in overexposure to radiation. Technology has gradually expanding throughout our lives. It has change many beneficial factors changing how we think and in our prospective making our live efficient and time consuming. In the past, mobile device are purposely used for communicate with others. However, with the invention of the Internet and creation of smartphones expanding with applications, social media, and other unique features. Has revolutionized the whole prospect of communication. They are becoming a necessity in our everyday lives and creating a problematic concern with how er socialized and how we communicate, not consider the traditional way and not create the

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The excessive use of smartphones has not only changed the way we see technology but also the way we live our lives. In the year 2000, the first touch screen phone was introduced and people who loved technology were amazed by this cellphone technology that did not required a physical keypad to work or access the cellphone main menu, although not that many special features were added to this cellphone besides the digital touch screen tech lovers fell in love with this device almost instantly because of the futuristic idea of replacing buttons with a digital touchscreen. Even though this cellphone was a pioneer in a new era revolutionizing the idea of a physical keypad to enter numbers did not

Every day we use some form of technology. From the sound of the alarm on our cellphones waking us up to the ping of notifications, tweets, and news that interest us; we eat and breathe technology. In a world full of apps for everything and computers connecting us worldwide, we are living the good life. Ask yourself, when was the last time you were able to go an hour without your cell phone? your tablet? technology? Can you count change without waiting for the register to tell you the amount due? Why do we believe everything we research on the computers is valid? We no longer wear watches or learn how to tell time, watch weather on TV, or even calculate the miles for a road trip. The progression of technology has improved the quality of our life and how we live. Many people believed this progress is worth it. However, all progress has a cost? Do you ever think what that cost might be? We are so dependent on technology that without it would we be able to live? Is it dangerous? What would happen if it all went away?

Over years technology has expanded dramatically. The amount of high level technology that is around us today in popular culture is massive. Things such as ipads, computers, tvs, ipods, and especially cell phones are used 24/7. Since 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the first phone, it was a major success in technology. People could finally communicate with each other on the phone without actually having to see the person. The invention was great and really expanded the world with the telephone. Humans love to socialize. Before the telephone was invented people had to get up and actually physically talk to the person. However, as time went on phones have expanded. Home phones led to cell phones and now we have all the iphones. Are we getting more sociable with the resource we have in the cell phone? Not just the physical aspect of the phone but all the things that apply on the phone such as all the social media apps like twitter, facebook, and instagram that are all accessible on the phone. The research study that i want to analyze is does the modern day cell phone make people less physically social.

Cell phones and technology in general has advanced a lot over the last ten years. Allowing students to be able to take their phones or devices wherever they want in today’s society. Thus bringing forward the issue of cell phone distraction in the classroom.