It's a necessity in our lives; an essential part of our being. It seems like during this day in age everyone has one and can't live without one; our cellphones. For most people a cellphone is a vital piece of their everyday life. It's the connection to their friends, family, co-workers, and anyone else you need to talk to. However, the connection is much bigger now. With the new advancements and wide variety of smart phones available, the connection doesn't just stop with talking. The list continues to grow; the Internet, texting, tweeting, facebooking, gaming, emailing, and thousands of other apps that keep us connected.
One of the newest smart phones on the market is the Motorola Atrix. Now according to the media, this isn't just your everyday, regular smart phone; this is the smart phone to have. Sources are calling it powerful. Motorola just released a promo for the phone and describes it as not only powerful but the most powerful smart phone in the world.
The media has been highlighting its most incredible features. The New York Times highlighted several of the phones capabilities including a fingerprinting scanner on the power button for protecting your privacy, Motorblur to bring you social media, and a screen and keyboard that the phone can hook into to become it's own mini laptop with extraordinary capabilities.
The phone’s dual-processor runs the laptop and you can still make a call while using the computer. The Atrix has 1 gigabyte of RAM, again twice that of most current phones, so it should multitask smoothly. And downloads will be speedy if you are on the 4G network.
PCMAG.com also described the phone with words like crazy, radical, interesting, and even sexy. PCWorld called the smart phone a huge step and stated that phones like this will replace the PC.
Even though the media went on and on to tell us all the great features it contains and encourage us about several reasons why we should have it, I think they left out a few things. How about the other issues that phones like this are creating for it's consumers. What about distracted driving?
It's a pretty well known fact that distracted driving has continued to increase since the evolution of the mobile phone. But why wouldn't we be distracted, our phone goes off every time we get a new text, tweet, email, facebook message, and phone call.
Last fall on NDSU's campus a study was done to find out about the habits of students who text and drive. The results displayed that 91.4% of the students surveyed admitted to texting and driving. Texting is a huge distraction while driving. Other studies have shown that when you write or read a text you take your eyes off the road for an average of 5 seconds. This is enough time to cover the length of a football field.
So even though it seems our phones are one of the most essential parts of our lives, and we need to continue spending all our money upgrading, we may just need to analyze a few things; is this something we need or do we just think we need it, and what other issues can it cause in our lives.
This was an interesting blog post to read. I hadn’t heard of the Motorola Atrix until now. You bring up a good point at the end; there are questions about these new mobile phones that need to be answered. Do we need to continue upgrading at the rate we are? A topic you almost suggested for yourself at the end could be some of the issues, besides texting and driving, that technology brings up in our everyday lives. A couple grammatical mistakes I found; “thier” is spelt wrong in the title, should be “they’re”. Also you say “day in age” in the first paragraph, it’s actually “day and age”. But you might want to stay away from that phrase as it is used a lot. Maybe replace it with “These days”. I like your video and pictures you used. Good placement. Your sources are credible and I like the use of an NDSU stat to make it more personal to the class.
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ReplyDeleteAwesome topic! What an innovative concept! Although, I have my reservations (as I do with most media haha) but I think this will definitely catch on and be the next step in cell phones. You have great links to support your topic and there is plenty to interact with with all the multimedia elements you have in your post! Kudos on finding a promo for the phone! Without that I would have been so lost as to what you were talking about. Good thinking adding a visual aspect to a new concept so readers not in the know (like myself) can take it in visually. Barring a few grammer errors your writing was engaging, conversational and very similar to the sample blogs we looked at. I'm not sure if anyone has suggested topics for you yet but I feel you can never have too many ideas for blog topics. I can't quite remember the exact topic of your blog but I would like to read about self-diagnosis with WebMD; overall is it helping or hurting? I'm not sure if that is within the scope of your topic but it's something I would read.
If that doesn't exactly ring your bell perhaps a blog on video games and how they are actually improving hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills in young children.
As I said you're off to a great start! I look forward to reading your next posts.