Carissa Acuna
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Information at Your Fingertips

Although people may think they are too expensive, smartphones are beneficial to the world because they offer so many opportunities in such a little device. I like to think of it as “information at your fingertips”. More and more services are being made available on smartphones. From accessing maps and directions, to unlimited Internet and overall keeping you entertained. Smartphones can do things a lot more quickly than your standard mobile phone. This means you and all your business is always one step ahead of what is going on. Before smartphones came along, mobile phones were only made to make and receive calls, but now these devices have taken on new and better standards, also newer functions and features. The most fundamental component of the smartphone is that it is available with Internet. It’s like using your phone as a mini laptop, browsing websites, downloading music, uploading files and much more. You can even sit at home or in a café and do all your work there on your smartphone instead of being cramped up in your office all day. And besides all that, you know how everybody just loves Facebook nowadays. Just tap your cute little smartphone on the Facebook app, and in seconds you can check out what everyone is doing at that exact moment. Smartphones are supported by Microsoft Windows Software, which can access information faster than your ordinary computer. The Internet on my phone is so convenient for me and I can find out anything I want in a very quick matter of time. For example, say I’m at home and I want to find out what time a certain store closes, all I have to do is type the stores name into my phone and it gives me all the information I wanted to know. The entertainment that comes along with a smartphone is awesome. Every smartphone comes with a market full of different Applications (apps). A lot of the best apps are free. There are games, cookbooks, Skype, photo fixers, and much more. All you have to do is click on your market and a bunch of games and different apps appear. Some are really expensive, but most are free. On my phone, I have a flashlight app and for about a whole week straight I didn’t have light in my closet because the light bulb went out. So for the whole week without light, I just used my flashlight app to make light in my closet so I can actually see what I’m going to wear for the day. I also have my two favorite games on there. I usually play these when I get really bored in class or when I’m on a long road trip. Angry birds has to be my most favorite, then It would be bejeweled. With a smartphone, you can get awesome apps like these and never get bored! GPS is a great benefit that the smartphones offer. It gets you from point A to point B. All you have to do is type in your location and the destination you are trying to reach. And get this, the GPS even talks to you and tells you which way to turn or which exit to take so that way your not distracted from the road and not trying to focus on the map on your phone. Also, if you just want to find directions without looking at a map or following the voice, you can have the directions written out on your phone and easily have your passenger read them to you. GPS helped me a lot on my first time driving to my aunts’ house in SD. I was definitely not experienced enough to drive and look at my phone at the same time. Although smartphones are expensive at a point, I definitely recommend them to anybody. Not only are they the updated version of a regular boring phone, they are used in every possible way imagined. Smartphones can do so many things. I love my smartphone and I certainly think it is worth the cost!