Smartphones are affecting various areas of life such as productivity, communication in the workplace, social engagement, and education according to research. The document discusses the definition and history of smartphones and their characteristics such as connectivity, content consumption, and content creation. While smartphones improve communication and are useful for tasks like sending emails on the go, research also shows they can decrease productivity and pose privacy and safety risks if overused. However, smartphones also provide benefits like easier communication and learning through accessing educational websites and resources.

1. Research has found that smartphones are affecting productivity, communication at the work place, social engagement and have an effect in education. Do you agree or not?

2. Contents The definition of a Smartphone. The history of Smartphone's early years. The characteristics of smartphones. The effects smartphones have on people. My opinion on smartphones. My findings on smartphones. My conclusion on smartphones.

3. My opinion on smartphones Smartphones are different from ordinary phones in two fundamental ways: how they are build and what they can do. The reasons why smartphones are classified and recognized easily is because the unique, different characteristics that most smartphones posses. The first Smartphone was the IBM Simon, which was designed in the year 1992 and became a huge concept during that year at the COMDEX, the computer industry trade show in Las Vegas, Navada. The public had only known it in 1993 and was sold by BellSouth. It had a calendar, e-mail, games, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, send and receive fax. It had no buttons to press numbers, instead consumers used a touch screen to select numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. The Smartphone offers, connectivity, content consumption, and content creativity. This device is both personal, containing private information and public, providing a digital link to the rest of the world. Other characteristics include: mobile PC, enhanced hardware, and mobile OS. Smartphones are taking over social engagement lives, with smartphones we are able to communicate better with our friends, family, colleagues and even people we don’t know. Smartphones also alter our daily lives and are easy to use. Although smartphones are incredible they still have a negative impact on people, for instance smartphones decrease productivity, they could ripe out your identity in terms of people posting naked pictures of you. Many people have died through social networking by meeting up with strangers and human trafficking, and also being exposed to pornography and posting private information on chat rooms for people you don’t know. On the other hand smartphones do have a good effect on us, through smartphones we can send an e-mail using a Smartphone rather than using a computer or laptop. Smartphones help make better communication because you become more mutual at the workplace. They are is to carry, you can save and share important documents and also get to engage with your friends on a social basis. They also have an effect on education because smartphones can be also be used for learning. They can be used to set homework reminders, access relevant websites and transform electronic files between and home.

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6. My findings on smartphones Global market for Smartphone saw sales of 150 million in 2009 and the number increased to 170 million in 2009, growing 13% in less than a year. A survey of consumers considering on buying smartphones was conducted by IT specialized survey institute in 2008. Demand of smartphones is expected to increase with release of wider variety of models.

7. My conclusion on smartphones In my point of view is that I agree with the statement on slide 1, Smartphone make life simple and easy. You become more productive on a social basis. Smartphones help make better communication and are easy to carry. Get to interact with other people through exchanging pictures and sharing e-mails. And help increase learning skills by accessing relevant websites.