Smart phone is changing our world.

By Raymond Lee

Smart phones are changing our world.  There are more and more people texting the smart phones when they wait in transportation.  But what contemporary technology brings us aren't always the benefits.  Long staying on the couch texting your phones may hurt your health.  Glaring light may damage your eyes when you play games and apps in the dark.

        It's easy to be addicted to the smart phones.  But I won't overuse my phone.  I seldom use my Android smart phone on shopping or gamming, because the screen is too small for me.  I prefer larger screen computers for surfing.  Though there are smart phones with screen larger than 7", they are too huge to be the cellular phones.  I prefer Windows 8 transformer notebook computer which have both the benefits of Android OS and traditional x86 Windows system.  I have been using the Windows-based software like Microsoft Office since I used computer.  It's not easy to switch to another platform.

        Smart phones, which integrate the phone and tons of apps, are changing our lifestyle.  Apps such as Gas price, online garbage truck or bus GPS routes, online shopping and gamming, weather forecast, can make our life easier.  People don’t have to rush for garbage trucks or buses if they can find the positions from the smart phone.

        Although there are many advantages of smart phones, some people still like to use the feature phones.  They don't want to plug into the technological quagmire, reluctant to use the multi-functional smart phones.  Multi-functional smart phones may hamper the easiness of the use of cellular phone.  As for them, a phone is just a phone – to be used to communicate.  Overusing the apps and other online functions may just waste their time, distracting their concentration on the real world.

        I prefer using smart phones, though there are some side effects.  It's not necessary to throw away the apple because of the core.  What we have to do is not to overuse the smart phones.  If we can take advantages from smart phones, life will be easier.