In today’s world, the ability to be mobile is everything. We have cloud technology, which is excellent, but if you don’t have the ability to access it, it’s relatively useless. That’s why I love my iPhone 11 Pro. In general, the smartphone has given us the ability to do nearly anything we want from the palm of our hands. We can do all the typical stuff like e-mail, texting, phone calls, and games from our phones, but we can also do a variety of other tasks. We can control our TVs, check the day’s weather, and even control the thermostat from our phones. We can watch movies and Live streamed TV, read books and take online classes from our phones.
1) Just as powerful as computers – What I like about the smartphones that we have today is that people can do more or less everything they would do with their computers in their hands. E-mail, texting, video, games, work things (to say nothing of the good old fashion phone call), you can do anything from your phone. With phone technology advancing at the rate that it has over the past 20 years or so, it has actually surpassed the usability of the desktop or laptop computer in its ability to be useful in our day to day lives.
2) Can go ANYWHERE – I don’t care how small your laptop is, how light, how sleek or dynamic it is. You still wouldn’t take it with you to a sporting event (once they open again, of course) or to a dinner or just walk somewhere. You would take your phone with you. Certainly, if something as powerful and as capable as the computer on your desk can go with you anywhere you need to go, it would seem valuable.
3) No info need be stored on the device – I mentioned Cloud technology at the top of this post. Most of the data that we have nowadays is stored on the cloud plays a significant role in the success of Smart Phones. While you do hear about phones which boast storage capacities of hundreds of gigabytes, that’s more for the storage of media on the device. For the most part, when you are saving something on your phone (be it a word document or a PDF or an e-mail), you’re likely saving it to a cloud system. If you’re conservative with how much is downloaded to your phone (like me), then there is the potential to have your phone be the fastest device you own.
It should be worth noting that I do recognize that this post talking about how amazing having your phone on you all the time could be seen as contradictory to a post I did a month ago about disconnecting. I can tell you it’s not. Here’s the thing; we have the power to be as mobile as we want, but that doesn’t mean that we HAVE TO USE that power all the time. Disconnecting in a world that’s continually connected is possible. You need to know how to use that power. Regularly having your phone in your hand can be wildly addictive (and believe me, I succumb to that addiction a lot) which is why it’s important to do things that take you away from it every once and a while.
What’s your favourite way to use your smartphone?
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