Smartphones have become one of the most integral part of our life. Imagine spending at least one day without a smartphone,…
While majority cannot even think of it!
Being such an important part of our life do we really know this device as much as we should ?
This question came to my mind one good day and I started digging in deep to find about smartphones and its origin. This article is a basic compilation of all that I found interesting about this device.
So let’s get going..
The Very Beginning
Did you know that the smartphone was invented by Martin Cooper of former Motorola founder some 30 years ago. It was on April 1973 when Martin Cooper finally built this device for us to use today
IBM Simon
Long before apple’s iPhone IBM in the year 1993 had introduced a phone which had touch screen calendar fax facility and can clearly be attributed as the ancestor of today’s smartphone
Global Top seller EVER
Nokia 1100 is by far the most sold phone ever. This device was primarily manufactured in Finland and had as many as 250 million pieces sold across the globe.
Toughest phone
Sonim XP3300 Force acknowledged as the toughest smartphone ever by the Guinness books of World record. It survived a mashup 84 feet vertical drop without having any operational damage to the phone.
Open up
An average person opens his or her smartphones 110 times a day
Super-computer at our disposal
did you know that the average smartphone that we have today in our hands are much more powerful than the ones that were used for Apollo 11 moon landing mission.
Nomophobia what?
Phobia on losing your smartphone or using the signal of your smartphone
Super-Expensive Starter
Did you know that the first mobile smartphone at cost 4000 dollars in 1983
Costliest Today
iPhone Black diamond is the costliest phone today in the market which makes costume of whooping 15 million dollars. Pachisi is built with 600 diamonds and has 135 grams of solid gold worth 24 carats. It takes about 9 weeks to build one such Black diamond device.
Before getting onto the last two Interesting Facts About Smartphones let’s also look at a possibility where you damage your phone and want to get it repaired.
In India the top gadget service center is Firstcall Technologies.
With more than 8 branches in the city of Chennai Firstcall offers the best mobile service center along with 12 repair guarantee and free pickup and drop service.
They give close to 100 days of spare warranty as well. Calcifying 99% of the service centers usually use Chinese space they don’t usually give spare warranty. What Firstcall Chennai gives more than three months’ worth of spare warranty for your smartphones. So to check them out if you are in Chennai And looking out for a service center to repair your smartphone
Android’s opening
When Android was launched in 2007 Nokia spokesperson were found stating that Android can never be a threat to smartphone industry big players. Garage Microsoft was quoted stating that don’t understand how Android can impact this market.
Android was up for Sell
During late 2004 Samsung had a chance to buy Android but did not invest as they did not same to value the potential of Android in the upcoming market.
Done with me about few facts moving forward we will try to discuss the qualitative benefits of smartphones that we own today have.
One of these fact mentions the true potential of today’s smart home that we have in our hand. Less powerful machine was available to mankind when they put Neil Armstrong on the moon. Just imagine the power that we process today. every single teenager has access to unlimited processing power and thanks to the advent of 4G and 5G internet we have as much access to content as well.
With 1/100th of such access , our previous generation performed miracles like finding cure for untreatable diseases like polio and small pox. They also boosted industrial revolution which helps humanity to grow leaps and bounds. Right from fast moving cars to readily accessible food we reached out for the skies.
But today, With even more advanced technology at our disposal can we say the same thing about our generation?
I hardly think so
What could be the reason behind this lacking attitude?
If one goes deeper we will understand that advent of such super high performing technology has brought us in front of our very vulnerabilities. We feel that outward validation has more importance in our life than in word understanding offer true purpose. Social media which was meant to bring us together has actually fartherened us from each other.
we have lost our touch to be socially accepted by others in today’s digital world. And this is just the tip of the iceberg as the next generation offer future is also getting exposed to the same flight of technological nightmares.
Right from adults to teenagers kids and even toddlers we are being exposed to an un-godly level of data and information through our smartphones at an unimaginable speed. This magnitude of data and information consumption has its own disadvantages. Young minds are more prone and attracted towards the negative shade of of life if they are exposed to search massive technology. Right from free access to explicit videos and content to an unbarring need for validation our next generation is getting spoilt for choice. This will create generation who will not understand the true purpose of life and we’ll miss the bus in the longer run.
It is high time that we recognise our downfall and accept that we need to heal ourselves as the human race. It’s not late for us to check our direction with respect to the technology and its utility. Hope this article provides you with a fresh perspective towards technology and its usage in our day to day life. And hope it improves overview of the world that we live in and the people that we share this planet with.
They say – Tough times create Tough men, Tough men creates Good time, Good time creates Weak men and Weak men create tough time. It is an inevitable cycle but our next generation need not have to make the same mistakes that we did. We can still give them a chance and make them understand the true potential of technology like smartphones is well placed only when we see both the sides of this piece of device.
The day is not far when one fine piece of technology like today’s smartphone can be fully attributed to start a war that can erase our species entirely but after days choices will make the difference. So let’s get together and understand this growth and behave maturely.
Chennai Tech Reviewer 