Smartphone Revolution: Transforming Technology and Lifestyle

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Technology is changing our world more than ever before and the catalyst now is the smartphone (Lee, Chang, Lin & Cheng, 2014). The introduction of smartphone in the last decade has hyped up a technological revolution in the mobile phone industry and led improvement to the lives of mankind. Old bulky cell phone models with monochrome screen and keypads are replaced with ultra-thin smartphones equipped with advance gadgets and large, vivid LED screens. Smartphones can also install a series of useful mobile applications such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram that can perform task beyond the basic capabilities of phone calling and short message services. It’s just like carrying a very tiny and portable laptop around. All these features and convenience …show more content…

This phenomenon can be concluded as smartphone addiction and it has induce several severe issues among the young community. Increasing technostress and health complications among young smartphone addicts have raised the alarm and various studies had been conducted to solve the current issue. Based on research done, this paper aims to explain how smartphone addiction may corrupt a young individual’s life by causing health complications, technostress, sleep disorder and social interaction problems.

Smartphone addicts are more prone to several physical health problems than regular users as prolonged usage of smartphones does significant damage to the human body. First and foremost, the number of cancer patients had been increasing along the years and studies had proved that one of the major factors is due to over usage of smartphones. Besides inducing tumour growth, over exposure to radio frequency is also responsible to reduce the sperm count among men, causing infertility. This is because smartphones emit a high amount of radio frequency which is reported to be 1000 times higher than what is emitted from the base station (Jai Dev & Yadav, 2015). Using a smartphone

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