Smartphones

[Miharuka]

Ok, I'm not sure if this is the right forum for it.. but I didn't know where else to put it in.
If I am wrong, please tell me so.

Anyways, Smartphones. I think pretty much everyone knows what a Smartphone is. Even the mothers.
Everyone uses it, wordwide. You can do a lot of things with it, it's pretty much like a little computer in your phone. You can go on the internet, chat with friends, call people ofc, play games on it. You can do pretty much anything on a smartphone! They are very useful and fun.

But literary almost everyone haves one these days and I think it's sometimes kinda annoying.
For example: You are watching a movie with a friend and your friend keeps looking at his/her Smartphone during the movie. It can be pretty annoying in my opinion, because it makes it look like your friend isn't amused or interested or something. Especially when you are talking it's annoying.

Or if you sit around a table in the cantine in school. If you don't have a Smartphone yourself and everyone around you is doing something with it and nobody talks at all you feel a little bit.. left out or something or you just don't know what to do.

But on the other hand a Smartphone is very useful and you can do pretty much everything on it. Pretty much everyone on the world uses it too, so you can chat with anyone, anywhere with it.

So it haves it good points and bad points imo.

What do you guys think about this?

[nathalie]

[quote="Miharuka"]But literary almost everyone haves one these days and I think it's sometimes kinda annoying.
For example: You are watching a movie with a friend and your friend keeps looking at his/her Smartphone during the movie. It can be pretty annoying in my opinion, because it makes it look like your friend isn't amused or interested or something. Especially when you are talking it's annoying.[/quote]

Happens when the other person has a regular phone just aswell

I have a smartphone.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro (Android).

I didn't really got it because it is a smartphone.
I got it, because sliders etc are so hard to come by these days, and basicly no where to be found anymore in stores over here.
Because if they still were available, I would have gotten a slider.

I can't say I'm using all of it's features yet (I have it since last November), but I'm very happy with it.
Took me 3 phones to replace my old SE slider, which I still miss, lol.
(I had the SE Xperica x8 and the SE txt pro, but wasn't happy about eather of them, and then my eye fell on the SE Xperia Mini Pro, not that I really use the keypad, haha).

[Misiziri]

I barely use any of this new technology stuff. I know I sound like an old fart when I say that, but I just don't have the means to buy all these gadgets XD I have probably the most basic cellphone you can possibly have. It texts, calls, has some tools and that's about it. I don't have an I-pad, smartphone, I-Pod, or anything like that and I'm actually content about it.

It annoys me to some extent that people are on their phones so much but it's not really a big deal IMO.

[Woeler]

Lol I use mine all the time. I have a Samsung Galaxy ace. Whatsapp is really useful. I barely use SMS anymore.

[SnowyCheetah]

I use an iPhone and I love it to death. I use most features of it, but I'm not one of those people who's on it 24/7 or the annoying one texting when it's inappropriate. The annoying part is when people abuse the phone, not just because they have one.

[Tora]

I love this Droid Incredible 2. Oh Verizon you get my hopes up with the Incredible 4G and say its coming in the coming weeks and I don't see it yet. I do hate it when people are on their phones at the dinner table; I especially hate seeing people on their phones while driving. I saw a woman with her tablet driving down the road.

[FlipMode]

If I could legally marry to my phone, I so would! It's actually improved my life! Constant communication and alerts on anything... I can find out what is happening in my local area, find new things, learn new cycle routes, easily contact friends or write mlk posts while I'm sitting on a beach in Spain (c Wut I did der?), carry my entire music collection and listen to it, remember college deadlines and get work done...My IPhone is the centre of my busy life and I love it like a son.

I turn mine off though when it's inappropriate of course! But unlike most devices smartphones are actually useful, texting away in the cinema may be inappropriate but I used my Odeon cinema app to book the tickets in the first place so they wouldn't have got my money without it ( don't actually text in cinemas, just making a point). Or that orange Wednesday thing where they text you a code for 2 for 1 cinema tickets.

[Kopalover]

I have HTC Incedible S Android.
Would that be counted as Smartphone?

[Libre]

[quote="Woeler1"]Lol I use mine all the time. I have a Samsung Galaxy ace. Whatsapp is really useful. I barely use SMS anymore.[/quote]
Samsung <3 My friend's new phone is the galaxy s3, and since he is not in the country until july, I am using it. Really a great smartphone.
And you're probably not the only one not to use SMS anymore but whatsapp :>


But to come back to the actual issue: I think you're right, miharuka.
I see people everywhere using there smartphones using it for freaking everything. And about 85% of what they are used for could be done without it for sure.
Appearently that's just how society is these days :/

[DGFone]

I have a smartphone, and let me tell you: they are USEFUL.

The problem is not in smartphones existing, but in people not knowing how to use them properly and when to use or not use them. Better smartphones? Bring them on! It's the users that need better discipline, not the technology that shouldn't exist.