SMARTPHONE AS A CULTURAL ARTIFACT
Smartphone or mobile phone is a cellular
telephone with built-in applications and it runs on Operating system
capabilities. Smartphones are more advanced than normal mobile phones.
Smartphones carry features such as instant mailing, web browsing, option for
download free and paid application. For
an example: These days all smartphones are cellphones, but not all cellphones
are smartphones. To qualify as a smartphone nowadays, the device must have at
least a three to four-inch touch screen and be able to download apps from an
online store.
Let’s move and see what are the contemporary
meanings encoded in the smartphones.
Smartphones has become a necessity for lots
of people throughout the planet. Today’s technically advanced mobile phones are
not only capable of taking photos, web browsing, email but also stores extensive
amount of data and information as well
as they provide their users channel of
instant sharing via numerous advanced apps.
These days’ smartphones runs on Android,
Windows OS, Blackberry Palm OS and IOS. Smart phones have an effect on
productivity, Communication in the work place, Social engagement and education.
Moreover, smartphones are
multifunctional, allow user to transfer info in seconds to anywhere.
Moreover, due to Hand-Phone technologies
people can communicate via Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace instead of making a
phone call. In fact, thanks to smartphone technologies due to which personal information
stay protected and confidential and people can carry any sort of content with them
anywhere.
Currently, Media is a great recipient of
smartphone technologies. Latest apps provide prompt photos and video editing
options, besides these, smartphone cameras are capable to record high resolution
and high quality photos & videos. Additionally, it permits user to share incident
or news anywhere within a few seconds. For an instance: Smartphones gave arose
to citizen journalism like lots of incidents were captured due to these
technologies such as San- Franciso plane crash and London’s helicopter crash. 
If we look upon recent and rapid diffusion of
mobile information and communication technologies in American society as one
maker of the arrival of a kind of ubiquitous computing. It was only a decade ago
that Blackberry “RIM” combined its already popular email pager with cellular
phone to produce the first iconic Blackberry smartphone but today, market
are saturated with a variety of smartphones. Additionally, Smartphones
are powerful cultural symbols in contemporary America.
Furthermore, Mobile phone technology is
growing at incredibly faster rate and now the people are not able to assume
“what next?” A smartphone can be
extended through hundreds of add-on applications.
A Smartphone that is a modern cultural
artifact emerging from the land-line telephone, now the cell phone has become a
very useful object and modern cultural artifact with many purposes. The telephone once was used to transmit voice
and data but it is still best for distance application, its communication links
can be established by wire connections. In addition, to replacing the older
land-line telephones today we have smartphone that can serve in a single unit as
multipurpose computer.
In this modern world, smartphones can be adapted
and personalized by the user, displaying their identities, creativeness and
sense of style. Besides, to the addition of new uses, smartphones will also see
the attachment of rules of etiquette and appropriate use in the future.
Additionally, smartphones have a lot of
different capabilities like they provide their users immediate access to the
internet, which means that many things generally associated with a personal
computer can now be done via a small, mobile device that one’s carries around
literally everywhere. “They provide internet in your pockets”.
Smartphones
are affecting our society and culture in a modern, trendy and useful way,
Firstly; they have proven to be very convenient, for instance: we are now
almost always connected with one another and we are able to access data
anywhere. People are addictive to these, for example, when there are questions
to be answered; one can retrieve the answers instantly by using a Smartphone to
find the answers on the web.
This knowledge is gained by real life society ideas, from
physical observations and as well as personal experience is also involved. To conclude,
Smartphones will remain the norm in the mainstream society. More importantly, these
mobile devices are enabling people to create their own micro-cultures and also
quickly changing our social and cultural norms and values. Lastly, Smartphones
devices are becoming increasingly more competent and the advent of new and
fledgling technological advancement making everyday activities quicker and more
convenient therefore, with smartphones, there is no going back. Once connected,
it is hard to let go, as the experience is very addictive.
What meaning you get by looking at this or what you can imagine? please share your thoughts
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