The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cell Phones

As time passes by technology grows faster and faster. The most important kind of technology to many people is the cell phone. People bring their cell phones everywhere they go and use it on a daily basis. Cell phones has many advantages and disadvantages. Cell phones have been around for quite some time now, but as time goes on, cell phones continue to gain many features. A cell phone started out as just a simple device that only had numbers, and most people used them for emergencies only. Nowadays, cell phones have many features such as: phone calls, text messaging, accessing the internet, sending emails, taking pictures, using calculators, an alarm clock, and many more. Cell phones are used daily for many reasons beyond emergencies.
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Michelle McGriff from Techwalla mentions, “Keeping in touch with one another is as simple as pushing a button.” When you can’t talk, cell phones make communication with the use of text messaging. Keeping in touch has never been easier. Cell phones fit in your purse or your back pocket. Which means, anywhere you go, your phone goes. You can contact anyone at any time. Plan on going shopping and don’t want to write a list? Make a grocery list on your cell phone. You won’t ever have to forget what’s on your shopping list because you can simply look at your phone or give home a call. Many cell phones come with a Global Positioning System (GPS). These voice over devices show your current location and will then give you directions to your point of interest by speaking out which way to “turn”. Cell phones allow you to send messages in times when talking isn’t allowed. Cell phones also store contacts. “In case of an accident, cell phones hold crucial information that your family and loved ones need to know.” [40] And what about all those cool apps we can now download on our phones? Phones nowadays already come equipped with a calendar, calculator, camera, note pad, your email, and many more. Now if we want to be socially involved in anything, we can look up news from all the way around the world by using a search bar on our phones. Our cell phones are mobile computers. We can now talk into our phones and our phones respond to

Cell phones are actually a health hazard to us. Cell phones use Radio Frequency waves in order to transmit signals to and from. The radio frequency signals from cell phones fall within the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum. These waves are responsible for heating effects, thus holding a phone to our ear for quite some time, you will notice that your phone is warm. Rong Wang, from Pong case explains, “When the phone is placed next to your head during a call, a significant proportion of the emitted energy is absorbed into your head and body.” A compelling instance of health hazards as one of the disadvantages of cell phones was an experiment performed by Swedish Researchers where they studied the effects of exposure to microwave radiations for two hours on rats’ brains. They found that a large number of dead brain cells were found in the rats’ brains after 50 days. Degeneration of brain cells in humans leads to serious diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. Although the linkage of mobile phone usage and Alheimer’s and cancer aren’t completely established, a truth in these findings has major ramifications. Mobile phone usage in USA has gone up from 13 million mobile phone subscribers in 1993 to 223 million in 2006, almost twenty times in thirteen years. This implies that now, a much higher number of people are exposed to these harmful radiations than thirteen years back. Although not yet completely proven, mobile phones are