1. Smart
Phones
Sohaib Khan

2. Preview of Points
• What is a smart phone?
• Advantages and disadvantages of smart
phones.
• Effects on productivity
• Effects on communication
• Effects on education
• Some facts
• More facts

3. What is a smart
phone?
• A smart phone is a phone with more advanced computing
abilities and includes the following features:
- QWERTY keyboard: The keyboard is laid out in the same form
as that of a computer keyboard.
- Web access: It can access the web at higher speeds.
- Operating system: Android  Apple and Window?
- Apps: The smart phone software will have the ability to do more.

4. Advantages and disadvantages of
smart phones
Advantages
Disadvantages
• They are
multifunctional.
• They make it easy to
stay in touch.
• Quick to communicate
with.
• Easy internet access
anywhere.
•
•
•
•
Expensive
Can be complicated
Less personal
Can be big distraction
(work/school
environment etc.

5. E
ffects on productivity
• Businesses become slow as employees are too
stuck on to their phones.
• It makes production faster in the sense that
producers can contact each other much faster
and conveniently than before.

6. E
ffects on communication
• Helps creates less awaked moments
• Smart phones make communication much
easier when one has to get hold of a friend/
family member.

7. E
ffects on education
• Students are too busy on their phones to concentrate in class.
• Students invest too much time on social networking than they
do in their studies.
• It disrupts a students’ study time-table.
• It affects students’ English grammar where they start using
“chat language” while writing essays and any other school
work.
• Smart phones can help educators to do their job.

8. SOME FACTS
•
Research has found
that most people prefer
using their smart
phones even to watch
news than any other
forms of media.
•
Research has found that
68% of people are
addicted to their smart
phones and that a number
of students have replaced
their laptops with smart
phones.
Available from http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/07/smartphone-mobilebreaking-news/ (accessed 20 Nov 2013)

9. CITED WORK
•
Raymon, R (2010). Smartphone Use and Productivity Are Rising: How Does This Affect
Your Business. Available from http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2010/04/smartphoneuse-and-productivit.html/. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
•
Daniel, R (2010). The Effect of Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc) For
Children. Available from http://newstodaynews.com/the-effect-of-social-networkingfacebook-twitter-myspace-etc-for-children/12286. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
CameraPhonesPlaza(2009). Smartphones In Education. Available from
http://www.cameraphonesplaza.com/smartphones-in-education/. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
Coustan, D, Stickland, J. How Smartphones Work. Available from
• http://communication.howstuffworks.com/smartphone4.htm(accessed 20 Nov 2013)

10. CITED WORK
•
Raymon, R (2010). Smartphone Use and Productivity Are Rising: How Does This Affect
Your Business. Available from http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2010/04/smartphoneuse-and-productivit.html/. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
•
Daniel, R (2010). The Effect of Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc) For
Children. Available from http://newstodaynews.com/the-effect-of-social-networkingfacebook-twitter-myspace-etc-for-children/12286. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
CameraPhonesPlaza(2009). Smartphones In Education. Available from
http://www.cameraphonesplaza.com/smartphones-in-education/. (accessed 20 Nov 2013)
Coustan, D, Stickland, J. How Smartphones Work. Available from
• http://communication.howstuffworks.com/smartphone4.htm(accessed 20 Nov 2013)