The Smartphone

I have had a smartphone for almost two years, and I believe that throughout the duration, it has helped me immensely. To have a smartphone is to have instantaneous access to communication, a camera, a gps, and above all, the internet. The internet is currently the best place in the world to find any information. If it exists, it is somewhere on the internet, and having that at your fingertips almost anywhere is life changing. Ordinarily, without a smartphone, if you wanted to look something up or find something out, you would have to make note of what it was, and simply look it up when you got to an available computer. Or, in my case, you could tell yourself that you would look it up, and then forget it as quickly as you thought of it. almost everything I do is also made faster by my smartphone. It is almost always in my pocket, and when doing school assignments, occasionally I need to look one or two things up to complete it. In this case, it is much faster to look them up on my phone than to have to bring out a computer. My new phone, the Galaxy S3, actually has a faster processor than my computer, and 4g internet can be faster than my home internet, so in many cases, even sitting in front of a computer, I will still go to my phone for certain things. There is no arguing that technology has made huge improvements to communication, fact retrieval, organization, and entertainment in many peoples lives. What the smartphone has done is put all of these things together. It is a technological conglomerate which was obviously spawned from the question, "how much technology, how much information, how much shit, CAN we put in the pocket of the average person?". Well... a lot.