Smartphones Era

"Mobile phones have made life worse, not better."

            Mobile phones or gadgets are one of many modern technology that people have nowadays. It comes with a various shape, size, color, function, feature, and of course, price. Some people use their phones for texting and calling, while the others use it for their daily activities and their lifestyle. Nowadays, it seems that almost everyone including old people, kids, and even poor people have at least one. Well this is reasonable because now there are many cheap phones from a famous brand, and many expensive phones too but with more feature and better design. But, having a phone as one of the lifestyle nowadays make many people think that mobile phones / smarphones / gadget are not good for their life, many people thinks it was better when phones is not as importance as nowadays. People addicted to it, spend more money from it, waste a lot of times in front of their phones. But, is smartphones really that bad? Are there only a few good things comes from this revolution of technology?

            Well I admit that we spend more time with our gadgets rather than go outside and socialize with others and these phones makes us “addicted”. But, we can use these phones for socialize without even meeting face to face, I mean isn’t that better than have to travel a long way just to meet somebody? Or have go to nearby payphone and pay some money just too call a friends for only 5 minutes? This technology make people from far away closer to us, it really easy to communicate now, we can talk to people from anothers country, we can send a message without going to mailpost. It’s a good thing. But does it takes away our social life? I don’t think so, there are few people that really “addicted” with smartphones and refuse to go outside, I personally use my phones to keep in touch with my friends, we make a plan about hanging out together via our smartphones. I think it’s better than not having any phones, we can still have our social live with the help of this advanced technology.

            Do we spend more money in this smartphones era? Yes of course, these smartphones are really expensive and not worth the money, if you CHOOSE the expensive one. I mean, these phones are expensive because of reason, branding, cool design, durable hardware, HD screen, high memory and RAM, High Resolution Camera, and of course many feature (microsoft office, movie maker, photo editor, web remote desktop, and many more), and of course people will think it’s expensive if they don’t understand what makes them expensive, or because they don’t use any feature from those smartphones. The most expensive phone now is around 6-7 millions IDR with a lot of feature and function, and these feature is not meant for everyone. So, if you use your phones only for websurfing, calling, and texting, of course spending that amount of money is just wasting your money. Just like me for example, my phone is around 3 million, and i bought it in the second condition, why? I think that phone is enough for me, it has enough battery duration, memory, and feature. Because I only use my phone only for Flash Drive, read an E-Book, Email, texting, web surfing, phone calls, and some application that help me with my daily activities such as Reminder, Alarm, universal remote. So, what I trying to say is, there are no expensive phones, you just have to choose it wisely, if you don’t need those 7 millions worth feature, then just pick anything else. There are many really cheap phones from a famous brand (Microsoft and Samsung), with only around 1-2 million you can have your own smartphones.

            So, Mobile phones or gadgets, are really useful, it’s one of the best innovation of all the time, almost anything can be done with the help of gadget (and internet). So, spending some of your money for this cool stuffs is not really bad. So, the addiction, the bad effects, or anything bad comes from gadgets are mostly our faults, this tech are made for us, by ourselves. We just have to use it wisely and it will become the most helpful technology with a lot of function. Then, from all the words I wrote above, you can assume that I really disagree with the “Mobile phones make our lives worse” statement. I’m really grateful that I live in this mobile phones era, which anything can be done easier with modern technology, especially Smartphones and the internet. But it doesn't mean this generation is lazy, we just able to develop and use technology better.