...Ariana Galindo Mrs. Sgarioto English 1100-400 9 December 2009 The Invisible Killer What if one were to tell you that your cell phone is slowly killing you every time you use it? Cell phones are a part of everyday life for many people across the world. To many their cell phone is considered the most important item they own. People use cell phones everyday for simple tasks. One example is going to the grocery store, when a person forgets what they were supposed to get for mom they simply call her and ask. Imagine thirty years ago? People could never do something like that. Society today relies a great deal on cell phones and their features, but do not realize the potential danger they are putting their health in. Many people around the world use cell phones every day but are unaware of the fatal outcomes linked to them. To understand how potentially harmful cell phones are society must consider the many people using them. There are three billion cell phone users worldwide and more than 260 million in the United States alone (Mead 422). It is shocking that so many people around the world and U.S are cell phone users and they all may not know how harmful cell phones can be. It is important to discover how this technology of cell phones was created and developed in order to look into how it is affecting humans. In 1974, in response to growing demand for a communication system that was more convenient than two- way radios, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated...
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...CELL PHONES AND SOCIALIZATION Shawn Powell Strayer University ABSTRACT Cellular phones have come a long way from the exclusive use for important people. Now, the use of cell phones has gone global. People across the global can be seen using cell phones in many ways that fit their life style. This wireless device is used by both the young and the old. The use is a combination of fashion, work and social outlet. Socialization has linked its existence to the invention of the cell phone. CELL PHONES AND SOCIALIZATION The world as we know it has become technology depended on a hand held device called the cellular phone. Martin Cooper was the person who invented the first handheld cellular device in April, 1973. Ever since, the cellular device now commonly known as a cell phone has taken off to a level no one knew it could reach. Today, cell phones have grown to be a new way of everyday life. Additionally, cell phone usage has fallen into the number one category on the charts in the area of mobile communication and/or social interaction as it has multiple uses such as text messaging and surfing the internet. Cell phone conversations take place in public places causing people to interact whether it is for business or pleasure therefore maintaining the balance of social support (Khattab, 2009). However, questions have also been raised as to whether it is proper behavior depending on where a cell phone is being used (Khattab, 2009). Not only are people highly depended on...
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...Cell Phones Technology in the country and around the world is expanding at an exponential pace. The last 10-15 years has seen a large increase for technology in everyday life. In the United States the biggest technological change is the use of cell phones in our lives for both personal and business use. Since the late 90’s cell phones have grown at a tremendous pace. Today there are very few people in the country that do not have one. Personal use of needing a cell phone has increased. Today we need to always have access to our phone for text messages, email or the old but common actual phone call. Before cell phones if you wanted to know where someone was you had to call a land line phone at their house or actually go to where they lived or worked, and this would take a lot of time out of your day either waiting or actually trying to track someone down. If you only needed to tell your spouse something simple like “pick up some milk.” Today people can just send a text message with that information and it is something you receive instantly. This has increased our connection with each other for personal use since we can talk or communicate with someone when and where we want. Cell phones in the business world have evolved even greater than personal use possibly over the same time period. When someone used to work before phones they could only receive calls or email while they were in the office. That could be a good thing, but if something needed to be done urgently or information...
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...use cell phones while driving, or speaking to someone in another country. Society can also use cell phones in the business world also, for example, people use them to set up meeting, send co-workers information or even trade with other businesses. In this country having a cell phone is one of the things that people rely heavily on. Cell phones are more than the latest electronics in the market. It’s also one of the major parts of businesses and personal lives. All states make reckless and careless driving illegal. However some states have restrictions on using a cell phone while driving a vehicle. According to Monash University drivers who have a hand- held device is more likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. In California, drivers are required to use a hands free set while talking on the cell phone. If you are caught for the first time it’s a fee of 20 dollars. According to the safety laws in California it will be on your driving records and no points will be added on. In Florida cell phone are permitted, but only as long as you can hear the sounds in one ear and hear you’re surrounding sounds in the other ear. Communication is one of the necessities to a successful business in today’s world. With a cell phone it makes employees at a company easier to communicate with each other. It also makes it easier for a business executive to take calls, instead of him sitting at a desk waiting on a call, he can take calls from anywhere with a cell phone. In...
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...Consider the possible that one day you get a phone call from someone telling you that there was an accident and that your child is dead because a person using their cell phone wasn’t paying attention to the road. Would you be devastated? I sure would. Here are three main reasons why we should ban driving while use of cell phones. Using cell phones while driving is distracting, cell phones while driving impairs you as much as drinking, You can be charged with homicide. Why Using cell phones while driving is distracting. Distracted driving is a dangerous epidemic on America's roadways. In 2012 alone, 3,328 were killed in distracted driving crashes. The number of people killed in distraction-affected crashes decreased slightly from 3,360 in 2011 to 3,328 in 2012. An estimated 421,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, this was a nine percent increase from the estimated 387,000 people injured in 2011. 11% of all drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. This age group has the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted. Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by thirty seven percent Using cell phones while driving impairs you as much as drinking! Distraction from cell phone use while driving extends a drivers reaction time as much as having a blood alcohol concentration level as much as the legal limit...
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...attached to our phones. We would hardly communicate with each other, because we were so consumed in our phones. Being in a generation that has grown up on technology I get excited not frustrated with advances in technology. Older generations cannot seem to understand why “those young kids are attached to those things”. I honestly don’t know much different. I have always had a colored T.V a VCR, a CD player and a computer. Sure all of those have morphed into newer and better things, but I don’t know much else but technology. I think that even though I have always had technology around as I have gotten a little bit older I have become more aware of the damages it can do to our society. The video assigned to watch says it all. People can’t even go to the bathroom without using their phones! I loved the video, because although a couple of them were a little extreme, most of them I am guilty of! Because of my Iphone craze, I talked both my parents into upgrading there “bricks” into iphone. I have noticed that when we go out to dinner all three of us are on our phones until our food arrives. We do not talk as much as we used to because of the phones. It actually saddens me. As far as friends go, I have realized that I get really annoyed at one of my friends that is constantly on her phone. I don’t ever feel like she is listening to me and I often have to repeat myself because she indeed wasn’t listening. I have learned to appreciate the time that she puts her phone down for more...
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...Cell phone The world of technology has been moving faster and faster. Now, instead of waiting any hours to cook a meal, we can put it in the microwave for a few minutes and the taste will be the same. Similarly, as time goes on, cell phones have been continuously developing from simple device which can just make a call too much more complicated many options such as text messaging, internet processing and sending e-mail. Now, people have chance to contact each other anywhere and at any time. As with any technology that rapidly changes our lives, cell phones have brought both advantages and disadvantages. Cell phones have some negative effects for example, some teenagers become addicted to them and they can cause accidents if used while driving. On the other hand, cell phones also have positive effects such as saving lives in dangerous situations. Some teenagers become addicted to cell phone. The main purpose that we used cell phones in the past was to communicate with someone else who was far away. Because technology has arisen, teenagers now have many choices of ways to contact her relatives and friends both far and near. Texting messages have become a specially popular and some teenagers spend many hours texting. For example, Julie Zingeser, a teen in Rock land has become addicted to text messaging. She sends text all the time when she is at home, school, doing homework and even in bed. The only time she doesn’t text is while she takes showers and plays sports. The total of...
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...Today, cell phones have become a necessity rather than a luxury. The history of the cell phone can be traced back to the early ’40s. It was then that police, taxi cabs and other vehicle services began to use two way radios to communicate with one another or a central base. The first “mobile phone” was used by Swedish police in 1947. The technology was limited and drained the car battery after only 6 calls. The technology that we use today, that is towers that send signals in three directions instead of two like a bi-directional antennae, was developed in the 1960s; however, it took decades to mature into the system that we now know and use every day. AT&T petitioned the FCC for a license to use “Cellular Service,” but it was not until 10 years later in 1982 that the request was granted. The “First Generation” cell phones were bulky, weighed several pounds and had a short battery life. This meant they could only be used with any practicality in cars. The first true mobile cell phone was introduced by Motorola in 1983. Weighing in at only 28 ounces, it was light weight. The phone became known as “The Brick Phone” because of its square dimensions. Throughout the ’80s mobile phones grew in popularity, largely due to the fast improvements that were being invented which allowed the phones to become smaller and more powerful. Throughout the ’90s and into the new millennium, cell phones quickly became so common that now almost every adult and most teenagers have one. While most...
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...Air touch and Bell Atlantic with a $90 billion merger. Verizon is leader in 4G LTE technology in the cell phone industry dominating the market amongst the monopolistic market with companies such as, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T. The drive for technological advances goes beyond thinking for today advancements; it goes beyond the concept and looks for ways in the future to build a better technology. Verizon has diversified their workforce by employee ethnicities from different nationalities on their executive board. Verizon also has a diversity of 73,800 over the nation. The revenue margin for Verizon has increased over the year in 2012 the gross profit of $75.9 million. Verizon has won many awards for technology, innovation, leadership. Corporate citizenship, diversity, and customer care. Verizon customer experience has been proved and tested to be of the best in the technology industry. Verizon provides 24/7 customer service and over 1900 kiosk and employees are trained for a minimum of 37 days of extensive training to provide the best customer service. Market Mobile phones seem to be a necessity for the new and old generation. Mobile phone customers are using this technology for various means of communications and experiences; such as photo uploading, social media, music, browsing, and networking for a more effective business. Some top competitors in the phone market with nationwide coverage are Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Tessler (2013), “Wireless companies are...
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...Cell phones have been around for quite a few years now. The cell phone came out back in 1983. The first design that came out was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (2009). Since then we have seen the cell phone evolve from a huge block to what we have today. One of the major problems with cell phones is cell phone waste. When a new phone comes out or we break our phones we usually just throw them away. This causes a lot of waste in the dumps. There is a cell phone though in the works that I feel will help shape the way we build cell phones and other devices, if it can ever get off the drawing board. Every day we throw away millions of cell phone. The reason we throw them away is because they are out of date or they are broken. The problem with the broken cell phones is that usually it is one piece that is broken that is near impossible to fix. So when the average person finds out just how much it is to fix the phone they usually just buy a new one. That’s where Dave Hakkens comes in. Dave’s idea is simple in theory. Build a phone made up of several exchangeable blocks that connect to the base (the middle of the phone) and the base connects everything together.( Mcnicoll & Article, 2013) The blocks have two pins on one side that allows them to be connected to the base. All this is held together by two screws at the bottom of the phone. By doing this you can extend the life of the cell phone by upgrading the specific block on the phone you want. For example let’s say...
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...Are Cell Phones Dangerous? Reading For advanced learners Is talking on a cell phone hazardous to your health? It is difficult to know for sure. Some research suggests that heavy users of mobile phones are at a greater risk of developing brain tumours. However, many other studies suggest there are no links between cancer and cell phone use. The main problem with the current research is that mobile phones have only been popular since the 1990s. As a result, it is impossible to study the long term exposure of cell phone use. This concerns many health professionals who point out that many cancers take at least 10 years to develop. Another concern about these studies is that many have been funded by those who benefit financially from the cell phone industry. Many cancers take ten years to develop. Over three billion people use cell phones on a daily basis, and many talk for more than an hour a day. Cell phone antennas are similar to microwave ovens. While both rely on electromagnetic radiation, the radio waves in cell phones are lower in radio frequency (RF). Microwave ovens have enough RF to cook food and are therefore known to be dangerous to human tissues. However, the concern is that the lower frequency radio waves that cell phones rely on may also be dangerous. It seems logical that holding a heat source near your brain for a long period of time is a potential health hazard. Cell phones get hot when they are used for a long period of time. Some researchers believe...
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...I studied was how much students use and rely on their cellular phones. I chose to analyze this topic mainly because cell phones are constantly growing in the number of users and has become a prime mode of communication for college students. I am hoping to find out how much cell phones are used according to their prices and monthly plans. I would also like to see how much cell phones are being used now in comparison to a home telephone. As cell phones become more and more popular, it is almost odd to see a college student without their trusty cell phone by their side. Survey The survey I created included ten questions related to cell phone usage. I asked questions such as, "Which phone method do you use" and "does this differ from the method used in the summer?" These two questions are the foundation of my survey. I also touched on how frequently students use their phones on a daily basis and how long an average conversation usually lasts for. This will tell me how much college students rely on their cell phones and their need for this mode of communication. I also asked which phone plans the students have and how much they pay monthly to have their cellular phone. I can compare these two variables to find the best plan based on how much someone uses their phone. In conducting my research, I came across a few problems regarding the use of a cell phone in comparison to a home phone. Being an avid cell phone user myself, I know that I use a regular telephone when I am home...
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...& Sprint When we think of the number 3 and 4 cell phone carriers, only two come to mind, T-Mobile and Sprint. Both are known for being the most cost friendly companies, with a close amount of customer base and cell coverage. T-Mobile and Sprint both run their companies in many different ways, Sprint launched the I-Phone were T-Mobile chose to become a Samsung Champion, both have different approaches to deploying their LTE service and both use very different cell phone frequencies. While both companies struggle to get as many customers as possible, Sprint decided to follow in the steps of AT&T and Verizon and launch the Apple I-Phone. With the I-Phone being the “must have” device, Sprint felt it would be their saving grace to close a deal with apple and sell the most wanted phone on the planet. By doing this, it almost bankrupted the company with a massive $20 billion dollar deal to secure the phone. Even though they had one of their strongest sales quarters in history with the i-phone, the company still lost $1.5 billion dollars in net profit. As T-Mobile watched the third largest carrier reap the benefits of gaining more customers, the fourth largest carrier choose a different path. T-Mobile decided to become a Samsung champion carrier. By doing that they carried the most Samsung phone models of any carrier, since Samsung is the largest cell phone manufacturer and the biggest Android phone supplier, which is the i-phones biggest competitor. By being a Samsung champion...
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...Smartphone Innovations The cell phone has only been available to the consumer for a little over 30 years now. The invention was credited to a Dr. Martin Cooper. Dr. Cooper led the DynaTAC team at Motorola and placed the first cell phone call on April 3, 1973. The first phone was put on the market in October of 1983 and cost about $3,900 plus 50 cents a minute to talk. The phone was about 10 or 11 inches long, about 1 1/2 inches across, and about 4 inches deep. It weighed about 2 1/2 pounds. (Tas Anjarwalla). Cell phones are the most widely accepted consumer technology in the history of the world. According to a report published by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 91% of all adults living in the United States use a mobile phone. The acceptance of this technology is on the rise in the smartphone area as well. The same survey found that 56% of American adults have made the transition to a smartphones (Lee Rainie). Cell phones have made people’s lives easier, safer and more productive. The advantages related to this technology seem to be limitless. With the explosion into the smartphone era, the power of the computer has been placed into the palm of our hand. Access to the internet is now capable from almost from almost anywhere on earth. As the technology advances and the smartphone revolution continues to accelerate, the future innovations look to be impressive. With so many companies competing in the the fast paced development of high tech electronics...
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...Cell Phone use While Driving In today society we as people use cell phone for communicate. They play an important role in communicating in our modern society. Even though a cell phone is the most convenient and fast way for getting in touch with people, they should not be used while operating a vehicle. Cell phone use while driving has dramatically increased over the past years in the U.S., and studies show that the risk of having an automobile accident or near accident significantly increases when a person is talking on their cell phone. Although, not everybody who uses their cell phone while driving has been or will be in an accident, but an alarming number of people who were involved in automobile accidents have been reported to have been using a cell phone while driving. Because of the increased number of traffic accidents caused by cell phones, it can be show that cell phone use should be banned while driving do to the risk of getting a ticket, people get distracted while they are texting and dialing a phone number and maybe hands free headset should be banned as well. Individual that uses their phone while driving is taking the risk of getting a ticket or even an accident. It’s easy to get distracted while driving, but don’t the reason you get distracted is because you are on your cell phone. People who look away from the road while because they are looking for their phone or while they texting and evening dial the number. When you are messing with your...
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