Smartphone

Beneficial or harmful?

Are Devices that you make telephone calls on, but also has features that you might find on a computer

Also offers the ability to send and Also offers the ability to send and receive emailsreceive emails

Are a teenagers adviser and best Are a teenagers adviser and best friendfriend

Are more or less a necessityAre more or less a necessity

I agree that smartphones have effected us in the following manner;

Have enabled easier access to information sources

Easier spread of assignments and related work since there is internet access

Some smartphones are actually helping children learn through the different applications available

Smartphones have enhanced the productivity in workplaces by easing the commmunication flow

They have also made it easier to keep our selfs organized

though they is a threat to other sectors, smartphones are:

More efficientMore fasterSafer andSave a lot of time

Therefore, smartphones are a positve aspect in communication

Smartphones ae useful and are a becoming a global neccessity.

Smartphones are said very addictive. Most of the victims are teenagers Blackberrys are the leading addictive

smartphones, giving them the nickname “crackberry”

1. A full battery barely lasts a day2. You broke it and it feels like you lost a

friend3. When you meet people with the same

phone you can only talk about the phone4. You feel a brief moment of panic when

you touch your pocket (or grope the bottom) of your purse and its gone.

5. You use it in the bathroom

Our fixations on our smartphones are changing social norms, work routines and maybe even how our brains function

Smartphones may soon be able to take over the use of computers in the near future.

• Smartphones are beneficial Though there might be some effects

• They are a becoming a global neccessity • There are definetly here to stay

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