Conversation Is Killing Smartphones

Laptop Is the impact of negative Smartphone family relationships, social and professional?

Smartphones and society - I begin to realize that while smartphones and cell phones are amazing pieces of technology, they begin to have a negative impact on how the company integrates itself. This piece seeks to show how we are isolated in society, and what could happen if we continue on the road for the smartphone and mobile phone addiction.

This article examines how smartphones are used for business, social activities, and how smartphones are used at home with the family. The image of this lens creates can lead some people to think - I depend on my smartphone? - Have a read and let me know what you think.

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Laptop Smartphone Is The Negative Impact On Family Relationships, Professional And Social?

Smartphones and society - I realized that while smartphones and cell phones are amazing pieces of technology are beginning to have a negative impact on how the company is integrated with it. This piece tries to show how they have been isolated in society, and what might happen if we continue on the path to addiction and mobile smart phone.

This article examines how the smart phones used in businesses, social activities, and how smart phones are used at home with his family. Imagine, this lens creates could lead some people to think - I am addicted to my smartphone? - Do read and let me know what you think.

Smartphones are certainly one of the best pieces of technology that was developed in recent years. Its incredible that a piece of equipment is relatively small, can be so powerful. It acts not only as a phone, but also as mobile internet, a game console and with the addition of a large number of applications / androids a gateway to almost everything. Fun applications where the photo was manipulated in the animal, or getting a makeover to show what you look like a 90 year old! For applications that you can use a GPS or a universal translator.

The smartphone, with its links to social networking sites today, you can see what friends are doing immediately. You can book at least different locations and upload photos directly to your Facebook page. The smartphone is actually a lot of technology. But there is a dark side to the smartphone.

I'm starting to notice more and more how many times you walk down the street and all you see are people upside down, the smart phone in hand, playing a little '. Indifferent to their surroundings. Casual look up to make sure that they are not going to run into someone and then leave again, upside down, surfing, SMS, sending, when walking, jogging, running, cycling and running!

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AT&T Reveals Windows Phone Mango Smartphones

AT&T has become the first U.S. carrier to show off smartphones that will be powered by Microsoft's Mango update to Windows Phone 7.

The phones, two manufactured by Samsung and one from HTC, all will feature support for 4G data speeds, according to AT&T. The company also said all existing Windows Phone 7 customers would have access to Mango, also known as Windows Phone 7.5, this fall. Mango adds 500 new features, from major improvements like multitasking to numerous, transparent backend services, according to Microsoft.

"We're taking our leadership to a whole new level by getting the Mango update to all existing customers and rolling out awesome new Windows Phones," said Jeff Bradley, senior VP of devices in AT&T's mobility and consumer markets group.

AT&T said it will add the Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash to its lineup.

The 8.55-mm thick Focus S features a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, a 1.4-GHz processor, and a rear-facing 8-megapixel camera. It also boasts a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat. The Focus Flash, which is aimed at more budget-conscious consumers, comes with a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 1.4-GHz processor, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a front-facing camera.

Also coming to AT&T's roster of Windows Phone devices is the HTC Titan. Geared toward video consumption and gaming, it sports a 480 x 800, 4.7-inch display--the largest in AT&T's smartphone family. It also comes with a 1.5-GHz processor, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 1.3-megapixel rear-facing camera.

AT&T did not announce pricing or ship dates for any of the new phones.

AT&T is the top seller of Windows Phones, for now at least. The carrier will get some competition when Redmond's partnership with Finnish phone giant Nokia takes effect. Nokia has committed to porting its entire U.S. phone lineup to Windows Phone. Executives from the company have said they expect to start shipping Windows Phone devices in the United States in bulk by early 2012.

Many pundits believe Mango represents Microsoft's last chance to make a dent in the smartphone market. Microsoft held just 5.7% of the U.S. smartphone market as of July, according to Comscore. By contrast, RIM held 21.7% of the market, Apple held 27%, while leader Google, with its popular Android OS, held a commanding 41.8% stake.

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AT&T Reveals Windows Phone Mango Smartphones

AT&T has become the first U.S. carrier to show off smartphones that will be powered by Microsoft's Mango update to Windows Phone 7.

The phones, two manufactured by Samsung and one from HTC, all will feature support for 4G data speeds, according to AT&T. The company also said all existing Windows Phone 7 customers would have access to Mango, also known as Windows Phone 7.5, this fall. Mango adds 500 new features, from major improvements like multitasking to numerous, transparent backend services, according to Microsoft.

"We're taking our leadership to a whole new level by getting the Mango update to all existing customers and rolling out awesome new Windows Phones," said Jeff Bradley, senior VP of devices in AT&T's mobility and consumer markets group.

AT&T said it will add the Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash to its lineup.

The 8.55-mm thick Focus S features a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, a 1.4-GHz processor, and a rear-facing 8-megapixel camera. It also boasts a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat. The Focus Flash, which is aimed at more budget-conscious consumers, comes with a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 1.4-GHz processor, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a front-facing camera.

Also coming to AT&T's roster of Windows Phone devices is the HTC Titan. Geared toward video consumption and gaming, it sports a 480 x 800, 4.7-inch display--the largest in AT&T's smartphone family. It also comes with a 1.5-GHz processor, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 1.3-megapixel rear-facing camera.

AT&T did not announce pricing or ship dates for any of the new phones.

AT&T is the top seller of Windows Phones, for now at least. The carrier will get some competition when Redmond's partnership with Finnish phone giant Nokia takes effect. Nokia has committed to porting its entire U.S. phone lineup to Windows Phone. Executives from the company have said they expect to start shipping Windows Phone devices in the United States in bulk by early 2012.

Many pundits believe Mango represents Microsoft's last chance to make a dent in the smartphone market. Microsoft held just 5.7% of the U.S. smartphone market as of July, according to Comscore. By contrast, RIM held 21.7% of the market, Apple held 27%, while leader Google, with its popular Android OS, held a commanding 41.8% stake.

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Nokia slips, Samsung catches up fast in market share in India

Korean mobile handset maker Samsung is catching up fast with its Finnish competitor Nokia on the back of a strong growth in smartphones and feature phones in India.

According to the latest figures made available by the Voice & Data study, Samsung posted a growth of 21.7 per cent to register revenues of Rs 5,720 crore in 2010-11 from India, from Rs 4,700 crore in the previous fiscal.

Nokia on the other hand had a flat growth, with revenues of Rs 12,929 crore in 2010-11 from India compared to Rs 12,900 in the previous fiscal, according to the Voice & Data study.

Though Nokia remains the market leader in India with a 39 per cent share, its dominance is under pressure, say experts.

According to industry sources, Nokia's market share has is 37.5 per cent in January-July this year. Its market share stood at 49.3 per cent in 2010.

Its competitor Samsung's market share has increased to 28 per cent in first seven months. In 2010, Samasung's had a market share of 20.1 per cent, sources said.

In terms of monthly shipment also, Samsung has grown its base at a much faster pace than others.

"In 2007-08, Samsung sale was 0.2 million units approximately in a month, while Nokia sold 4 million lakh units. At present, Samsung is selling is selling close to 3 million units per month but Nokia has marginally increased to 4.6 million," said an industry expert who did not wished to be named.

Smartphones like the Galaxy and Wave series have helped Samsung increase its share in the smartphone category.

Samsung has already said it expects smartphones to contribute 15 per cent to the sales volume by the end of 2011 from about 10 per cent earlier this year.

Nokia, however, is geared up for the challenge. "In the smartphones segment, Nokia continues to lead in this market, and according to Canalys, the smartphone market in India stood at 6.32million units in FY 2010-11 and Nokia's share in this (segment) was 62.6 per cent," Nokia spokesperson said.

Nokia has recently tied up with Microsoft for adopting Windows phone as primary platform for smart phones.

"While Windows will be our primary smartphone platform, we will continue to leverage the value of Symbian to compete and address consumer demands as we build our Windows Phone business," the spokesperson added.

Nokia is also betting big on the dual-SIM category. "In the (Indian) mobile phones segment, we had some challenges in our portfolio because of lack of dual sim devices. As per various industry estimates, dual sim is 50-60 per cent of market size and we had no play in it till the launch of X1-01 and C2-00 in June 2011," the spokesperson said.

According to experts, home grown companies like Micromax, Karbonn, Lava, Spice and other mobile handset firms importing from China have eaten into market share of multi-national firms on the back of low-cost dual-SIM feature phones.

"We continue to strengthen our portfolio and by year-end we will introduce new form factors like Qwerty and touch-and-type and phones at cheaper price points," Nokia spokesperson said.

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Nokia slips, Samsung catches up fast in market share in India

Korean mobile handset maker Samsung is catching up fast with its Finnish competitor Nokia on the back of a strong growth in smartphones and feature phones in India.

According to the latest figures made available by the Voice & Data study, Samsung posted a growth of 21.7 per cent to register revenues of Rs 5,720 crore in 2010-11 from India, from Rs 4,700 crore in the previous fiscal.

Nokia on the other hand had a flat growth, with revenues of Rs 12,929 crore in 2010-11 from India compared to Rs 12,900 in the previous fiscal, according to the Voice & Data study.

Though Nokia remains the market leader in India with a 39 per cent share, its dominance is under pressure, say experts.

According to industry sources, Nokia's market share has is 37.5 per cent in January-July this year. Its market share stood at 49.3 per cent in 2010.

Its competitor Samsung's market share has increased to 28 per cent in first seven months. In 2010, Samasung's had a market share of 20.1 per cent, sources said.

In terms of monthly shipment also, Samsung has grown its base at a much faster pace than others.

"In 2007-08, Samsung sale was 0.2 million units approximately in a month, while Nokia sold 4 million lakh units. At present, Samsung is selling is selling close to 3 million units per month but Nokia has marginally increased to 4.6 million," said an industry expert who did not wished to be named.

Smartphones like the Galaxy and Wave series have helped Samsung increase its share in the smartphone category.

Samsung has already said it expects smartphones to contribute 15 per cent to the sales volume by the end of 2011 from about 10 per cent earlier this year.

Nokia, however, is geared up for the challenge. "In the smartphones segment, Nokia continues to lead in this market, and according to Canalys, the smartphone market in India stood at 6.32million units in FY 2010-11 and Nokia's share in this (segment) was 62.6 per cent," Nokia spokesperson said.

Nokia has recently tied up with Microsoft for adopting Windows phone as primary platform for smart phones.

"While Windows will be our primary smartphone platform, we will continue to leverage the value of Symbian to compete and address consumer demands as we build our Windows Phone business," the spokesperson added.

Nokia is also betting big on the dual-SIM category. "In the (Indian) mobile phones segment, we had some challenges in our portfolio because of lack of dual sim devices. As per various industry estimates, dual sim is 50-60 per cent of market size and we had no play in it till the launch of X1-01 and C2-00 in June 2011," the spokesperson said.

According to experts, home grown companies like Micromax, Karbonn, Lava, Spice and other mobile handset firms importing from China have eaten into market share of multi-national firms on the back of low-cost dual-SIM feature phones.

"We continue to strengthen our portfolio and by year-end we will introduce new form factors like Qwerty and touch-and-type and phones at cheaper price points," Nokia spokesperson said.

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Smartphones make up 40 percent of mobile phones in U.S.

Up to 40 percent of mobile phone users in the United States now own smartphones instead of feature phones with handsets powered by Google's Android operating system accounting for 40 percent of the market share, market research company Nielsen said in its latest survey released on Thursday.

According to the survey, from May 11 to July 11, this year, 40 percent of mobile device users over 18 in the U.S. own smartphones like iPhone, Android devices and BlackBerry.

Google's Android platform continued to gain market share, increasing by 1 percent over the last period to 40 percent. Apple' s iPhone stayed flat with 28 percent while BlakBerry dropped by 1 point to 19 percent of the U.S. smartphone market.

Among those potential buyers who said that they are likely to get a new smartphone next year, around one third said that they want to buy an iPhone and one third said an Android device.

The survey also asked respondents questions to determine how they embrace the new technologies.

Among those "innovators" who said that they are usually the first to embrace new technologies, 40 percent of them said that they are looking for an Android phone next year, while 32 percent want the iPhone.

The "late adopters," which are about 19 percent of those surveyed, also favor Android over iPhone with 32 percent to 23 percent while 30 percent of them said that they are not sure about their smartphone candidate.

The survey noted that those "undecided" consumers are the swing vote smartphone makers should be hoping to win over.

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Last Year’s Smartphones Selling Better Than the Latest and Greatest

Hardware companies are in the business of convincing you to buy the hottest new item. And save for Apple, it looks like smartphone makers aren’t doing a good job of it.

Four of the top five best-selling consumer smartphones of the second quarter were all made over a year or more ago, according to a recent report.

The iPhone 4 was the best selling smartphone among non-corporate consumer purchases from April through June, according to research firm NPD, with the iPhone 3GS coming in at a close second. Representing the Android operating system, HTC’s EVO 4G ranked as the third most purchased smartphone in Q2. And finally, the lesser-known Samsung Intensity 2 (released in June of 2010) came in fifth place. Samsung’s Inspire 4G ranked fourth, the only phone released in 2011 to make the top five.

To some extent, the increased iPhone sales make a certain amount of sense. The price of the 3GS dropped after Apple debuted its iPhone 4, attracting the bargain hunting demographic. To boot, the iPhone 4 saw a surge of new buyers after the release of a CDMA version on Verizon’s 3G network. Most recently, Apple released its white iPhone 4, resulting in another spike of sales.

With the slew of new Android phones released this year, sales have spread across the myriad Android-powered options consumers face. As a result, no one particular Android model has emerged as a true victor.

Instead, Android continues to dominate in operating system market share, as 52 percent of new smartphone purchases run Google’s operating system. Apple’s iOS emerges in a not-too-distance second place, with 29 percent of the OS market share. And of course, much of this growth is at RIM’s expense; the Canadian company bled out over half its share of sales compared to the same period last year. As usual, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, and webOS each held less than 5% of the market.

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Americans and Their Smartphones

Pew Research rolled out its latest survey about how Americans use their cell phones. Now we are beginning to see how the newer smartphones change use habits.

In the report, Pew compared patterns of behavior. From this, you can see trends. I was hoping to discover the disadvantages of smartphones but, apparently, there are none. All mobile phone activity increases sharply for users of smartphones. In other words, people use their smartphones too much.

Immediately, this tells me one thing. Those ads that Microsoft did, showing someone totally enamored of their smartphone, were very accurate. But Microsoft was mistaken in thinking that people didn't like it that way. The company tried to sell Windows Phone 7 as a way one could avoid being preoccupied with their smartphone all day. According to Pew, people are gravitating in the other direction. Perhaps making the smartphone do even more would be a good idea for marketers.

The majority of common mobile phone users only use a phone for two things other than making calls: taking pictures and text messaging. And both of those functions are used even more by smartphone users. Everything else is minor for regular phone users.

Over 50 percent of smartphone users access the Internet, send photos, email, download apps, play games, listen to music, record videos, watch videos, and access social networks. Essentially, these are all new uses for the mobile device. Note that none of these actually involve making a voice call, which is why the mobile phone was invented.

One of the only surprises in the study was the fact that 64 percent of smartphone users employ the device for listening to music while only 12 percent of other cell owners do this. I realized that the pre-smartphone users may listen to as much music but by using an iPod. This tells me that the iPod is going to be killed by the smartphone.

The survey also tells me that a lot of people are spending too much time diddling around with these devices. No wonder the phones are the major topic of conversation on all the tech publications. Hey look, even I'm writing about them in this column!

It's interesting to note how the usage pattern has changed public sociology. Five years ago you would have seen people all over town walking down the street yakking into these phones as if they absolutely had to be chatting all the time. Today, on our busy city streets you’ll see at least half of these people texting or reading texts or looking over their email while walking.

This is so pervasive and ridiculous that many states have had to implement harsh laws to keep folks from texting while driving. A few years ago, they were trying to pass laws to keep people from chatting on the phone while driving, now it's using the phone for other things. I use my Nexus S for navigation while driving. That's probably not good either.

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