Personal use of ICT

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 GULEED SUDI 10D                                                                                 MR UKPEI

                                                             UNIT 3A

How I use ICT as a student

Mobile phones:

I often use use mobile phones which have many uses like making and receiving calls, entertainment, games, even things like calculators and internet. Mobile phones using analogue or digital cellular technology are also known as cellular phones or wireless phones.                                                               Wireless telephone permits telecommunication within a defined area that may include hundreds of square miles using radio waves in the 800 – 900 megahertz (MHz) band. As for 2004, there are more mobile phones than fixed landline phones in the world, and mobile phone operators are increasingly supplanting traditional telephone companies. The disadvantage of a mobile phone is that it may have harmful radiation that could have an ionizing effect on the body cells. This is not definite but the precautionary principle is to be applied.

MP3:

I have a MP3 player and use it mainly as a portable source of music. MP3 can also be used as a USB stick to save software data on. Short for Mpeg Layer 3, MP3 is an audio compression standard for encoding music files. MP3 files are played via media player software in the computer, such as iTunes or Windows Media Player. MP3 sound quality cannot fully match the original CD, but millions of people consider it "good enough" especially because they can pack thousands of songs into a tiny pocket-sized player. The main disadvantage of the MP3 format is that it needs to be decompressed when played. That means that we need a computer to play them and that we cannot hear them in our ordinary home stereo CD players

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IPOD:

An ipod is sort of the safe as MP3 player but the significant difference is the you can save much more data but you can also use it to play games. Originally a portable hard disk drive produced by the Apple Computer Corporation. There are now types of ipods with flash memory, which have no moving parts. An ipod is typically used to store music files such as MP3s but can also be used for storing other files such as images or other data. The disadvantage of the iPod is its durability - it ...

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