ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING A CELL PHONE

Mobile phone is a good technology which is not lacking from our lives. This report will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile phones. Today, mobile phone has become popular to everybody since it is very convenient. The most advantage of having a mobile phone is you can communicate to your family and your friends no matter what where you are. For instance, you can contact easily to your friends by calling or sending messages everywhere without electricity. It is maybe the main reason why almost all people today choose to own a mobile phone. From the customers point of view, it is obvious that mobile phones assist you in business a lot, such as, make schedule of working, surf the internet, and keep in touch with their companies. Moreover, you can relax with mobile phones applications, for example, play games, listen to music, or chat with your friends. n the other hand, there are also disadvantages. !sing a lot mobile phone can harm your brain, particularly teenager and children who are under "# years old. If you use mobile phones too much, you will get bad effects like di$$y, blood%brain barrier, or ears problems. In addition, when you use mobile phones while you are driving, you will get an accident. It is essential not good for you and others. Moreover, &radiations emitted from the phone are dead harmful for the eardrum', has proved by many scientist. wning a mobile phone in your hand is you can solve many issues and hold most of information around the world. (ven though is not good for your health and you have to protect yourself from bad effects of mobile phones if you choose to have one.

Until the 1800s people used letters for communication. But this way was very slow, and people couldnt contact each other in emergency situations. There was also the possibility of letters being lost. But after the invention of the telephone in 18 ! by "le#ander $raham Bell, it became easier for people to communicate. Then in the 1% 0s, the cellular phone was invented. &t brought many advantages into our lives. 'owever, although cell phones brought many benefits into our lives, they also have disadvantages.

The most important advantage of cell phones is that they can be used almost everywhere without cables or electricity. By using a mobile phone, you can communicate with anyone whenever you want and wherever you are. Besides this, if there is an emergency situation, mobile phones can be useful. (urthermore, you can get access to the &nternet by using a cell phone. These days, the worlds most common means of communication is )*). +ell phones include this system, so in this way you can communicate with someone more cheaply than by normal calling. &n contrast, cell phones have some disadvantages. (or e#ample, cell phones spread electromagnetic waves. "nd these electromagnetic waves cause important health problems li,e cancer. "dditionally, cell phones often affect the electronic systems used by e-uipment li,e cars, "B) .automatic bra,e system/, and computers. This can cause big problems, such as accidents. To sum up, cell phones not only have advantages, but also they have disadvantages. *obile phones ma,e our lives easier. But at the same time, they cause some important problems in our health.

)ince past few years the usages of mobile has increased very rapidly. *retty much everyone have it now. The reason behind this might be that mobile service providers have decreased the call rates so low that it is now affordable by every one. +s you know like everything else it too has both advantages and disadvantages. )o, we will be discussing them in detail and see if we can come to a conclusion. ,e will discuss advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones every aspect. -o matter how miniscule it is. +dvantages and disadvantages of mobile phones advantages%and%disadvantages%of%mobile%phones".thumb./pg 0ommunication +dvantage Mobile phones ma/or purpose is to make the process of communication easy and to be very honest mobile phones are doing this /ob very successfully. 1ou can get in touch with people all around the world /ust by dialing few numbers. 2isadvantage I wont say it is a big disadvantage or a compulsory disadvantage. +ctually, it depends from person to person. 3ow he utili$es it. There are many people all around the world who never leave their mobile phones alone. It is consider very harmful for ones health. ,hen you talk on phone for hours it can affect your hearing and the danger of brain tumor caused by mobile phones radiation is known to everyone. Mobility +dvantage +s the name suggests you can take it anywhere. )o, like old times you dont have to stay at home /ust to take an important call. r you dont have to miss call when you are away from home. It is extremely useful when /ob re4uire lots of travelling. 2isadvantage The reason behind many road accidents is that the person who was driving the vehicle was also on phone that time. This doesnt mean a person busy on a phone will be only dangerous when he5she is driving. It is seen in many cases a person walking around while talk on the phone is a danger not only for himself but for other people to. (mergency +dvantage In emergency mobile phone can be a great help. Imagine, your car broke down in the middle of a highway and there is no help around at that time a mobile can save you.

Many old people can be a little more independent because now days there are many mobiles with the facilities that are very useful in emergencies. In emergency, a touch of a button can send a number of messages to the close relatives and friends. This very helpful for old people or people with some severe disease, living alone. 2isadvantage I dont think there is any good or mentionable disadvantage of mobile phones but for the sake of a discussion I would say the cost of few services available is pretty much. +pplications +dvantage -ow days there are millions of different no. applications are available for our mobile phones. )ome of them can be 4uite useful. 6ike, few days back I wrote an article about assistive technology. +ssistive technology is basically the technology for disables. In it I have mentioned about the various applications for autistic kids which run of mobile phones and it works wonderfully with them. +part from this, there are several mini applications that can be of a great help in our day to day life. 2isadvantage The greatest disadvantage of these applications is that people waste a lot of time using them. If there are "77 applications that are helpful and worthy, then, there are a million applications that are nothing but a waste of time. )econd disadvantage would be the money people spend on these worthless applications. I know many of them are available for free but there are pretty good number of applications that are not. +ll%in%one 8adget +dvantage Mobile is an all in one gadget. nly a fool can say something else. If you want to wake up in the morning, then, it works as an alarm. Tells you time, day, date, works as a notepad when you want to note something important down and remind you of various events. I wont be incorrect if I say it like a wife who takes care of her husband. 2isadvantage The disadvantage to this would be the dependence of humans on their cell phone, so, in case they lost it their whole life would come to a stand still. +nother thing, I have seen many people listening to music on their mobile phones all the time. This also has effects on your hearing and your concentration power. )ense f )ecurity +dvantage

,hen you are away from home there is always a fear in the mind of your loved ones about your well being but if you have a cell phone, that means, they can remain in your contact all the time. It can reduce if not completely vanishes that fear. 2isadvantage The only disadvantage to this is that it puts a hole in your privacy and it is difficult to stay alone. )M)5Instant Messaging +dvantage ,ith the help of this service you can send a common message to lots of people. This is a real time saver. +nother advantage is that it can help you contact with other people if you are in a place or scene where you cant talk on the phone. 2isadvantage 6ike everything people misuse this technology too. + lot of time gets wasted on /ust messaging. Internet +dvantage +lmost, all the phones that are made now days have facility to use internet. This is very important for people of all age groups. *eople who work can get their mails on the phone itself. )tudents can search for information from the internet. 2isadvantage *eople use internet more for bad things. )ocial networking is the main evil here. 0amera I have mentioned camera separately because I think it is a really powerful tool. +dvantage 0amera in a mobile phone can be really useful in capturing memories because no matter how smaller a real digital camera get, you cant carry it every where. 3owever you have your mobile phone with you everywhere you go. The pictures and videos taken through mobile phones by people, of a crime, have been very useful in carrying on investigations and bringing /ustice. 2isadvantage Many times this creates a hole in the privacy of people. Malicious people have been known to post pictures and films of other people intimate moments. )ince the social networking took a boom the young generation spend more time in taking pictures to post on these websites rather than doing something productive and this all take place with the help of a phone with a camera. +dvantages and disadvantages of mobile phones 9 0onclusion

0onclusion 9 (ven if mobile phones have a bit of disadvantages but still the advantages totally dominate them and most of the disadvantages are the ones created by people themselves. )o, I would say we should try to make use of its good assets rather then making it work against us. Mobile phones connects world and the people living it in a pretty good way and lots of people claim that they cant work if they dont have a mobile phone. *eople give you thousands of reason how their busy life needs a mobile phone to ease things a bit. ,arren :uffet, one of the worlds richest men thinks different. In fact he doesnt even use a mobile phone. If he can then we can. :ut it is entirely up to an individual. 1ou opinion 9 +dvantages and disadvantages of mobile phones I have written all the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones that came to my mind. -ow, its your turn to share your opinion about this article and add something that I might have missed.