Modern Technologies: General Overview of the Suggestions
Due to the rapid development of modern technologies and the new ideas appearing in the sphere of engineering, people have faced with a huge number of newest gadgets and equipment which was created to make people’s life easier and provide them with time-savers which will help to speed up the process of work.
However, such big is the quantity of the objects created that it seems impossible even to enumerate all of them, to mention a detailed description of them. A great number of technological companies suggesting their services have emerged, making people even more confused about the numerous options which the new gadgets suggest.
Nevertheless, one can highlight several technological spheres where people have achieved the most impressive results. These are the communication sphere and the sphere of science engineering. Since communication plays the most important part in a life of a modern person, the issue of the given case study is the means of communication and the way they have been developed through the past ten years.
The Communication Sphere: Better to See Than to Hear
Although it has been not so long since Bell created the telephone, the new century has already suggested several inventions which exceed Bell’s invention a hundred times. The galloping pace of the phone industry development is striking with the new inventions which it has represented so far. One could say that the new suggestions given by the communication companies are nothing but an advertisement which is aimed at drawing all possible clients to buying the suggested goods, the scale at which the new inventions are being created and developed is strikingly high. Indeed, a couple of decades ago it seemed absurd that people could talk on the phone without cords, while nowadays everyone can enjoy mobile phones which are no bigger than a child’s palm. Indeed, the development of technological products is stunning at the current stage of technical development. Hardly is a splendid gadget out of fashion, it is followed by another one, giving even more options and demonstrating even more refined design.
Even though it already seems impossible to invent something new in the sphere of mobile phones development and construction, the new models appear almost every day, attracting the attention of millions of people. An example of such quick success with the captious but enthusiastic public is a gadget called a smartphone.
As it has been known, the smartphone is one of the most recent products of telecommunication technologies. A gadget that is aimed at both communicating and entertainment, it has a variety of functions that a usual mobile phone does not have, and thus smartphone represents a step forward in exploring the newest technologies and the opportunities that they can give.
According to a description, a smartphone is a mobile phone and a new personal computer. Created by Apple Company, it has opened a new page in the epoch of modern technologies development and has contributed to the sphere of communication, so that people can now both speak to each other without interrupting the working process since the functions of a smartphone allow using it in a multitude of ways.
The invention of the smartphone has marked a new stage of technology development. It was a major breakthrough in the field of engineering, and the very gadget is in fact a miracle of one’s brilliant idea.
Once brought to the world market, the gadget suggested by the Apple Company has gained wide popularity with millions of people all over the world. It was no winder, taking into account the options which it suggested, starting from functioning as a usual phone up to being storage of files of different kinds and a mall personal computer in one. As Allen (2010) marked,
Smartphone operating systems actively innovate to keep up with advances in hardware and ease development with improved tools and APIs. As we’ve seen with the iPhone App Store, often the most significant innovations are not purely technical. (2)
Indeed, the development of the current models of smartphones demanded intensive work in various spheres of industry, along with the technical sphere. It must be realized that the new inventions are getting improved every day, even moment, and the invention of the smartphone was only the beginning of a long journey to the peak of technological progress.
Smartphones turned out to be a gadget of extreme importance for people since mobile phones provided the necessary help no longer. At some certain stage, people started feeling that it could be a good idea to combine a phone and a computer not to bother working with both, which only added to the confusion over a small detail. A gadget that could combine the features of a computer and a mobile phone could be a decent way out of a complicated situation.
It must be admitted that it took quite a long for engineers to create a fusion of a computer and a phone since the first mobile phone emerged. However, it is a well-known fact that history does not approve of haste. Finally, when people got tired of switching from the computer to a mobile phone, the new invention came into the light. This was a breakthrough compared to the invention of the phone itself.
Brushing through the New Ideas
The Novelties which the gadget brought were more than exciting. The advanced facilities of the gadget made it the most popular device, especially with the youth and the people of the business world. The smartphone was not simply a combination of a computer and a mobile phone, but a thing in itself, which could suggest the facilities which neither computer nor a simple mobile phone could suggest. According to Stair (2009), the new invention could perform the following functions:
A smartphone combines the functionality of a mobile phone, personal digital assistant, camera, Web-browser, e-mail tool, MP3 player, and other devices into a single handheld device. (116)
This was truly amazing, and the numerous clients hurried to obtain the desired device which could ease their life in such a pleasant way. As people started hurriedly buying the new invention, it became clear that the new device will be soon firmly established in the world market and will be used by a huge number of people. The predictions proved right within a very short period of time, and soon almost every man could get his or her portable personal computer and a mobile phone in one.
The invention of the smartphone meant that mankind has reached rather a high stage of technical development. It practically meant that people had the opportunities which some decades ago were spoken about only in science fiction books. However incredible it might seem, the invention of the smartphone showed that mankind overran itself in pursuing the goal of high technological development.
With the “musts” which people meet with today, it is necessary to know that way different gadgets, among them a smartphone, work and how they operate. As Levy (2010) says,
It’s a requirement today that you have the full gamut of tools, e.g., a computer (PC and/or laptop) with a high-speed Internet connection, e-mail accounts, BlalckBerry or another smartphone, multiple-line phones for conferencing, voicemail/answer service, scanner/copier/fax, and so on. This way, you’ll be able to keep in pace with the industry. (6)
Indeed, the increasing pace of progress demands that a person should keep in touch with the people with whom he or she socializes at home and work. Unless the new skills are not acquired, a man will not be able to keep up with the progress and thus will be doomed to stay unemployed and with very few chances to accommodate in the new world where modern computer technologies are reigning. It is necessary to get used to the new ideas and put them into practice skillfully.
Thus, a smartphone can be applied in almost every sphere of a man’s life. Whenever one needs to rationalize his or her work, or to talk to a friend living in another country, or to listen to a favorite song, a smartphone will be always at a man’s disposal. Its effectiveness speaks for itself and does not demand any other proof.
The Assessment
The Benefits of the New Technologies
Even though a great deal of time is needed to prove that a particular piece of equipment is really valuable and that it will be of much use for people, a smartphone does not need to pass a time test to prove that it can bring a lot of benefits to the owner. The very idea of a tool which will save one’s time and money, for purchasing a smartphone is cheaper than buying a PC and the rest of the devices which smartphone substitutes, proved right because the number of items sold reached the top, and nowadays, an image of a businessman will be incomplete without a smartphone in his hand. Nowadays, the digital gadget is associated with settled business and with a variety of ways to entertain oneself. It is peculiar that the people who need it to the most degree are so different from each other. Together with businessmen, who actively use it because of the abovementioned reasons, a smartphone has become an apple of the eye of an average teenager, and nowadays almost each of them thinks it a problem of the major concern to have a good smartphone to socialize, play games and listen to music. This is twice as amazing since the history of smartphones tells that they have been developed even before mobile phones became a common device:
Over time, Handspring got into the business of creating smartphones which at the time were almost unheard of. Many people hadn’t even yet begun carrying a cell phone of any sort, let alone a smart one. It was a bold move that led to the creation of the first Treo smartphones that elegantly combined palm’s established software, a phone, and attractive design in a single gadget. (Ziegler 11).
Nowadays a most successful company on producing smartphones, Treo was making a bold decision then, taking into account that they could not yet know whether the new invention would gain popularity among people. However, they were not mistaken. Smartphones can be used even in the sphere of medicine, to help doctors to organize their work in such a way so that they could be more successful in treating the patients. It would be a good idea to consider the paragraph below:
Dr. Hwang’s morning routine began when he connected his Mac to the Internet and picked up the latest e-mail messages. With the connection still on, he would synchronize his smartphone with the Mac. This way he would be able to read and reply to e-mail messages while taking his bus ride to work, as well as reading the latest news through the BBC’s AvantGo channel. (Al-Unaydli 2006, 40)
The Things That Need Working on
Although the gadgets have literally shaken the world with their specific functions and their unusual look, the achieved success is not a decent reason to stop, for people need more and more technical novelties to be present in their lives so that they could manage their time with better result and have the opportunity to socialize with the people whom they cannot talk directly to. However good the current version of smartphones could be, there is still some room for improvement, and the case study suggested above clarifies that a lot of spheres of a man’s life and work depend on modern inventions to a considerable degree. Unless the technologies develop fast, the rest of the industries and spheres of a man’s activities will remain out of date as well.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is necessary to emphasize the importance of various means of communication in modern society. Keeping in touch with the world means living in full, and the gadgets developed with help of modern technologies can assist people in this task. Smartphones, as the most well-developed and advanced means of communication as of today, require working on, so that they could be adapted to the needs of modern people. Unless the new suggestions concerning smartphones and their clones are presented, the progress will be slackened and numerous spheres of a man’s social and personal life will suffer. Thus, smartphones, as one of the most useful and important inventions of the century, must be developed further on to help people in various scopes of their colorful life.
Reference List
Al-Ubaydli, M 2006, The Doctor’s PDA and Smartphone Handbook: A Guide to Handheld Healthcare, Idiopathic Publishing, Cambridge
Allen, S, Fraupera, V & Lundrigan, L 2010, Pro Smartphone Cross-Platform Development IPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Android Development and Distribution, Apress, New York, NY
Levy, RC 2010, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cashing in on Your Inventions, John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY
Stair, RM, Reynolds, G & Reynolds WG 2009, Principles of Information Systems, Cengage Learning, Stamford, CT.
Ziegler, C 2009, Palm Pre for Dummies, For Dummies, New York, NY.