The use of social media and smartphones in our life

The use of social media and smartphones in our life

Introduction:

Smart phone is a mobile phone which offers advanced technologies with functionality similar as a personal computer. While offering a standardized platform for application developers a smart phone performs as complete operating system software. Secondly, there are also very advanced features in smart phones such as internet, instant messenger and e-mail and also built-in keyboard are very typical. Because of these reasons we can say a smart phone a miniature computer with the similarities of a simple phone.

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Uses include:

Sending and receiving emails, text, photographs and multimedia messages

calculator, alarm, etc. functions

Browsing the Internet using a chrome browser

Playing games

Video chat

barcode scanning

creating high quality photographs or video

Determining user's exact location utilizing GPS

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Older phones also used computer technology, but lacked many of the parts of a computer that were too big to fit into a phone. Modern phone makers have been able to use smaller parts. Most smartphones are also GPS receivers and digital cameras.

Because smartphones are small computers. The majority of smartphones run on Apple iOS or Google Android but others use Windows Phone. Most can do multitasking, running more than one program which helps the user do things quicker and easier. Users can get more programs, called mobile apps, from the manufacturer's app store, such as the Google Play which can help them complete special tasks.

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Data communication has become faster. Smart phones can send and receive data much faster than older phones. The industry uses different standards to label the data transmission rates. 2G was introduced in 1991. 2G means 2nd Generation. 2G phones transmit data at about the same speed as a 56kbit/s (kilobits per second)

3G was introduced in 2000. Depending on where they are, 3G phones vary in speed between about 200kbit/s to 14Mbit/s (megabits per second).  Most smart phones use 3G technology to make them fast enough to practically use internet and other data features. Faster 4G networks operate in many places, with speeds estimated as fast as 100Mbit/s to 1Gbit/s (gigabit per second). This would be as fast as some computer networks that use internet. Many smart phones introduced after 2010 use 4G technology including the later, even faster version of 4G known as LTE.