Do smartphones increase or decrease social interaction?

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Smartphones: Increase Social Interaction?                

Do smartphones increase or decrease social interaction?

Samuel Walendowsky

English Composition I

Mrs. Meinhardt

November 25, 2012

Abstract

Everyday more smartphones are sold around the world, nowadays there are about of 1 billion of smartphones being used in the entire world. Now it is much easier and faster to share information, experiences, pictures and ideas to everyone. We are getting so used to all of these technologies that soon we won’t be able to live without it anymore. But sometimes people overuse their devices, and this can be very dangerous once you may lose all of your human interaction skills.

Do smartphones increase or decrease social interaction?

The first smartphone was developed in 1992 by the company IBM and sold by BellSouth Cellular Corp. It was nicknamed, “Simon,” and had the following features: a calendar, address book, calculator, email service, and a touch screen. They offered Simon for $899 with a two-year service contract and for $1099 without a contract. BellSouth Cellular sold approximately 50.000 units.

Following Simon, the company Nokia released the Nokia 900, in 1996. The Nokia 900 was a palmtop computer-style phone combined with a PDA from HP. In the late 90s, people still were used to have a palm top and a cell phone, as the cell phones only had the basic features. Then in 2004, the company HP released the iPaq h6315, it was a device that combined their previous PDA, the HP2215 with cellular capability.  

Now, 20 years later, the company Apple is selling the new iPhone 5, with much more features than the first smartphone as internet, voice command, camera to take pictures and record videos, GPS and music player for the price of $200 with a two-year service contract and for $650 without a contract, what makes much easier to a person acquire a smartphone.

As the price has decreased so much the number of smartphones sold had a huge increase, just talking about the iPhone, there are approximately 73 millions of this smartphone in the world, what is 1460 times bigger than the number of Simons sold. Nowadays there are around 1 billion of smartphones around the world and every day more iPhones are sold than babies are born in the world. This means that in a couple of years almost half of the world population will have a smartphone.

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 The smartphones bring so many advantages for the society, with the new technologies a person that is the United States can talk to another one that is in China, for example, just with one call or even via text messages. This new devices are making the world “smaller”, they make much more easier to share your ideas, thought and experiences whenever you want.

As the smartphones are small and light you can bring with you to wherever you want to go, so you can be connected to the entire world 24 hours per day. The most used feature of smartphones ...

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