Unit 8: Innovations - Smart Phones

       Have you ever lived a day without your smart phone not feeling boredom or the need to use it? These days, smart phone takes a large part in our lives. People realize how much they rely on smart phone when they are not able to use it. Some people say as smart phone technology improves, people's intelligence gets worse. However, it is an undeniable fact that it helps us to live better and easier life. It improves people's lives by making it easier to handle information and to prevent some crimes.
One reason why smart phone makes our lives better is that it helps us to find and exchange information easily and quickly. In former days, we had to turn on a computer to find information. However, these days, all we have to do is type some letters and touch few clicks on a phone to get information. Also, we can exchange information or e-mails with attachments easily by using a smart phone. Since office workers were originally main smart phone targets, most of the smart phones provide a service to make documents like slides for a presentation or Excel.
It is widely used by not only office workers but also students and they use these technologies very usefully.
On top of that, GPS helps us to find ways much easier and to prevent crime. GPS stands for global positioning system. Every smart phone have the system so when you turn on GPS and enter your destination, a satellite tracks your position and the destination and then it shows you a few ways to get there. Also, it is used to prevent kidnapping. Few years ago, when GPS was first added in phones, it was usually used for kids or the old and weak as a prevention of crime. When they press a button on a phone, then it signals an SOS to their parents or guardians. In this way, many people were able to relax than before.
To sum up, smart phone is one of the greatest invention these days because it improves people's lives in terms of technology and safety. Also, the best part of a smart phone is that it is handy despite the fact that it provides not only those services listed above but also many other services such as medical applications for physical examination and academic applications for learning foreign languages. However, as the old saying goes, too much water drowned the miller. Smart phone provides many technologies that makes our lives much easier, but we also need to be aware of smart phone addiction and to be able to know when to use it efficiently to live healthy lives.