Hello Oliver Rawlings readers! Do
you remember the days of the flip phone, pay as you go and ‘Snake’? I do; like
everyone else who’s just entering adulthood, I grew up in a world where the
mobile phone came to dominate the hearts and minds of kids everywhere. We’ve
grown, developed and changed right along with our phones. Society graduated
from the brick phones of 90’s TV shows, to the smaller models to the flip phone
and finally to the Smartphone.
I’ll admit, when I first heard about phones such as the Blackberry and the IPhone, I was just as sceptical as everyone else. After all, my phone could make calls, my phone could text, I could play games on my phone and it even had a camera. Like the majority of us, I started to look down on the celebrities and public personalities who started promoting the smartphone in their masses and seemed to take it with them everywhere. It got to the point where you couldn’t open a magazine or internet tab without being greeted with a picture of a celeb clutching their Blackberry in one hand and a Starbucks in the other, consumed in their little hand held device.
However, as my friends and family gradually succumbed to the seduction of the Smartphone, I couldn’t resist the allure forever. Yes friends, I forsook my derision and went and got myself my very own smartphone. Now, it wasn’t quite as sophisticated as the ones we have now, but it quickly sucked me in and opened me up to all the possibilities this one little piece of technology could bring into my life. I’ve never been the same since.
The biggest change to my life had to be the smartphones introduction of 3G internet into my life. Like anyone my age, like all of you out there, I grew up with the internet, I grew up learning just how valuable it can be to live your daily life with the internet there to help you. Although the smartphone made it evolve to the next level. Now I use the Google maps app whenever I get lost (I get lost a lot!) I use the Twitter app to talk to people, I use Snapchat to snap an amusing pic and give people a laugh. I do online banking on my phone, I post pictures to my Facebook profile on my phone, I even use it to check when the next bus is due; it’s just that amazing.
I may sound like a hypocrite, but I bet you can all relate. In 2013 the whole world has caught on to the smartphone craze. The next time you catch a train, have a little look around and observe how many people are looking down at their phones, not even making a call. It makes me wonder how the smartphone will change the way we live our lives and interact with each other. Is the smartphone as big a cultural advancement as it is a technological one? Only time will tell but I have a sneaky suspicion that the answer to that question just might be yes.
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| Picard uses Android! |
I’ll admit, when I first heard about phones such as the Blackberry and the IPhone, I was just as sceptical as everyone else. After all, my phone could make calls, my phone could text, I could play games on my phone and it even had a camera. Like the majority of us, I started to look down on the celebrities and public personalities who started promoting the smartphone in their masses and seemed to take it with them everywhere. It got to the point where you couldn’t open a magazine or internet tab without being greeted with a picture of a celeb clutching their Blackberry in one hand and a Starbucks in the other, consumed in their little hand held device.
However, as my friends and family gradually succumbed to the seduction of the Smartphone, I couldn’t resist the allure forever. Yes friends, I forsook my derision and went and got myself my very own smartphone. Now, it wasn’t quite as sophisticated as the ones we have now, but it quickly sucked me in and opened me up to all the possibilities this one little piece of technology could bring into my life. I’ve never been the same since.
The biggest change to my life had to be the smartphones introduction of 3G internet into my life. Like anyone my age, like all of you out there, I grew up with the internet, I grew up learning just how valuable it can be to live your daily life with the internet there to help you. Although the smartphone made it evolve to the next level. Now I use the Google maps app whenever I get lost (I get lost a lot!) I use the Twitter app to talk to people, I use Snapchat to snap an amusing pic and give people a laugh. I do online banking on my phone, I post pictures to my Facebook profile on my phone, I even use it to check when the next bus is due; it’s just that amazing.
I may sound like a hypocrite, but I bet you can all relate. In 2013 the whole world has caught on to the smartphone craze. The next time you catch a train, have a little look around and observe how many people are looking down at their phones, not even making a call. It makes me wonder how the smartphone will change the way we live our lives and interact with each other. Is the smartphone as big a cultural advancement as it is a technological one? Only time will tell but I have a sneaky suspicion that the answer to that question just might be yes.
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