It is amazing how new technology has allowed us to 'go to the cinema' at "home". This advancement in technology now allows us to wacth the latest movies, right in the comfort of our own beds or couches whiles viewing it from your high-tech cellular phone. this new phenomenon, uploaded with technology such as, adobe reader, windows media player which means that you can download any content from the internet and be able to view them using these programes that have been designed for this purpose and others.
The mobile phone (also called a mobile, wireless, cellular phone, cell phone, or hand phone(hp) is a short-range, portable electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, current mobile phones may support many additional servicee, and accessories, such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations (cell sites), which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones). Since the mid-2000s, an increasing number of cellphones can connect to the Internet, a portion of which can be navigated using cellphones.
With such a rapid change in technology, one can easily access all wireless connections by using their new and improved cellphone. One these days cannot keep up with the changes that cellphones have to offer us today. They are becoming more sophisticated and more expensive. In the early period of the 2000's, the hype abot cellphones was, the smaller it is the better! Today the hype has totally shifted to, it has to have a camera in it and the bigger the screen, the more sophisticated it really is.
Furthermore, cellphones have become a part of our lives. They have become an extended body to us. They have become emmbedded to us. Don Ihde, says "to get used to a hat, a car or a stick is to be transplanted into them, or conversly, to incorporate them into the bulk of our own body".
That is how our cellphones have become like to us. Everywhere you go, you will certainly find someone with their cellphones, either having a conversation or the latest today, Mxiting (www.mxit.co.za) with their friends and families all over the world. The question about these ltest inventions in cellphones is 'how safe they are' in terms of accessibility, who can and who can't access this new technology. With this increasing rate of change in technology in our society, it makes one question this new technology whether it challanges our values and norms as a society. More children (especially teenage girls) these days are being exposed to adult content on the web, and they become victims of sexual abuse by strangers that they really do not know, but all they are to them is a "chatting buddy" on their cellphones. They log on to these websites where anyone can access them including older people who in our society would be regarded as morally bank rupt because of the conversations that they engage in with these young unexpecting teenagers in these virtual communities. Though one may say that these virtual communities are "unreal", therefore they are not as harmful as people would percieve them to be, but what happens then when meetings are arranged in these communities to become something real? Are these children yet not in danger of being taken advantage of by these 'older people'? One would then say that this phenominon is problematic.
One should never look at things on one side though, there are very many positive things that this new technology has brought to us. Connecting with who ever you want to connect with when ever and where ever, and most likely end up ease dropping on someone else's conversation on the phone, because of the frequentness of connection every where you go!
The world of cellphones today has become increasingly fascinating over time, and the new programmes that they has to offer are phenominal.
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