This document discusses smart phones, who uses them, and their advantages and disadvantages. It notes that smart phones integrate PDA and mobile phone functions, and are used for tasks like financial transactions, education, manufacturing, professional services, medicine, and recreation. Some advantages are organization, access to information and company data, communication and multimedia. Disadvantages include limited text entry, smaller screens, and reliance on carrier coverage. The conclusion states that smart phones have become lifestyle devices that provide constant internet access, allowing users to multitask on the go.

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2. Issue Regards to Smart Phones Who Uses Them and For What Advantages of Smart Phones Disadvantages of Smart Phones

3. Issue Regards to Smart Phones What is smart phone? A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone that integrates the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile phone. Today's models also become a portable media players and camera phone with high-resolution touchscreens, web browsers and it can access and display standard web pages, GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and as well as mobile broadband access.

4. Security Issues The ability to transfer files between a smartphone and general-purpose computer means that a smartphone can become an important medium for spreading viruses and other mobile despiteful code.

5. Smartphones Security Concerns The growth of the smart phone market, where devices are not only valuable in but also it stores of private information for their owners . People are starting to use smartphones more and more often for financial transactions. Physical Theft Facilitate Financial Transactions

6. Ethical Issues As the smartphone users are increased dramatically, they have been exposed to danger of crime.

7. Hackers plant virus when smart phone users download applications, and this virus sends private information to hackers whenever the applications are worked out.

8. Who Uses Smart Phone? For What? Financial Services Uses Obtain leads and sales data instantly Browse the web for potential investments Access client information with the address book Keep in constant communication with clients and colleagues virtually anytime and anywhere Respond quickly to market changes using market data and order systems Set up meetings while on the road Check news, weather, sports and more in free time .

9. Conducting research Updating records or collaborating with peers Embraced M-Learning Digital note-taking Students can spell-check, modify, and amend their class notes on the smart phone Access to phone, email, organizer and multimedia Educators distribute course material through the Internet Textbook publishers have begun to release e-books Software companies have developed smart phone programs such as dictionaries, thesauri, word processing software, encyclopedias, and digital lesson planners Web browsing using Wifi or cellular network Higher Education Uses

10. Access to account information Order placement Pull up information about outstanding jobs, delivery status, order history and sales programs Tracking driver location Optimizing schedules Determining routes with GPS tracking technology Keep informed of customer service issues Stock price information or competitive intelligence Quickly check for parts availability and place orders. Manufacturing Uses

11. On-the-go access to email Personal information management Voice call and web browsing Manage personal information such as contacts of customer, track appointments with clients and check to-do lists. Run application software such as Word and Excel for them to edit and sending report Professional Services Uses

12. Drug databases, treatment information, and medical news Services such as AvantGo translate medical journals into smart phone-readable formats WardWatch organizes medical records, providing reminders of information such as the treatment regimens of patients and programs to doctors making ward rounds Pendragon and Syware provide tools for conducting research with smart phone Microsoft Visual Studio and Sun Java also provide programming tools for developing survey instruments on the handheld The development of Sensor Web technology may lead to wearable bodily sensors to monitor ongoing conditions, like diabetes or epilepsy Medical and Scientific Uses

13. Used by music enthusiasts to play a variety of music file formats Road rally enthusiasts can use smart phone to calculate distance, speed, and time or the smart phone GPS functions can be used for navigation Underwater divers can use smart phone to plan breathing gas mixtures and decompression schedules using software such as "V-Planner." Recreational Uses

14. Advantages of Smart Phones Tools to Help You Keep Organized Information at your fingertips Pocket size power Faster communication Keep in Touch Multimedia Functions Access company data

15. Disadvantages of Smart Phones Limited text-entry Smaller and harder to read screen than PC. Limited to areas with larger population densities. Check your carriers coverage before committing to their wireless plan. Does not have the same set of built-in applications found on the PC

16. Conclusion In an increasingly mobile world, the smart phone has become a lifestyle changing device. The smart phone is the device to provide instant access to the internet and online information resources wherever consumers go. Time-starved consumer says that smart phones improve their quality of life by allowing them to multi-task on the move. For marketers, this creates a new opportunity to maintain contact with consumers throughout the day and influence purchase decisions in ways never before possible.