Whileconsumption tax is raised from the next April and the increase of household burden is concerned, I appreciate that I could be given a bonus in this winter. My current cell phone is showing a sign of exhaustion, so I'm going to save some money so that I can buy a new cell phone. I see several articles what to buy or not before the raise of consumption tax, And I wonder how about new mobile phone -but this is another story today.
When I bought the current cell phone, I could have bought a smartphone, but somehow, the shop clerk opposed. As a result, this cell phone has lasted so long, so I still use conventional cell phone -I have no regretabout this.
But I cannot decide at this juncture:
I asked my sister and friends who already had smartphone whether they were content with smartphone they bought. Smartphones have great navigation system and it's easy to search traffic information, they can take good pictures, they can enjoy social network service whenever they want
. Bad points: Batteries run out so fast, telephone call charge is high when they make phone calls with smartphone, it's hard to text
. Surely, people who use microblog and social network service everyday a lot cannot do without smartphone -But this is one of the very factors of smartphone addiction, I take the trouble to accuse
. Come to think of it... since I haveno intentionto use microblog as I declare on the top page of this weblog, smartphone might turn out to be a useless posession for me. If I got a smartphone, I would lose excuse to turn down invitation to social network service. On the second thought... if I have a smartphone, I can listen to my favorite musician's Internet radio program when I cannot stay in front of my computer. If I say both have strong points and shortcomings, all there is to it.
In our country, conventional cell phones are called as Galapagos cell phones -This word is used commonly to distinguish smartphone and conventional cell phone easily -so do I
, but this word includes a kind of discrimination. But recently, I learned that it's cell-phone companies that spread a tendency that smartphone users are ahead of time and conventional cell phone users are behind time
, while "smart"phone seems not to be necessarily "smart". especially senior than me,
complain that mobile charges have risen after they changed to smartphones, and charge structure is too complicated due to complicated app systems.
Of course, dangerous apps are out of question.
Then I'd like to ask such cell-phone companies... How do you think about social responsibility after you try to spread smartphone to raise profits with complicated apps, even creating disparaging words?: So far... when I experienced a smartphone for the first time at a home electronics retailer, I thought that the display is so bright that it tires my eyes -affection to health is not only this. Sincesmartphone and social network service are inseparable now, bullies and troubles due to social network service, especially among young people, can be threats. -At least I think smartphone is inappropriate for children before understanding the threat of Internet
-this is another story today, though
. Recently, I saw young mothers absorbed in smartphones paying no attention to their children in a coffee shop; I hope their children won't hold distrust against their mothers and grow up lacking communication skills. And I think I'm not the only one who has bumped into people using smartphone walking or on bicycles. -Those cases are matter of users, though.
There is an opinion that the best choice is to have a conventional cell phone and a tablet. Anyway... after all, what we have to do is to think what we want to do with such items and select proper ones
. Then, what is good yardstick to decide what to have?
By the time when conventional cell phone users like me feel like getting a new one, may I ask all the cell-phone shops prepare information, as well as understandable explanation about security, appropriate and precise charge system? -Instead of spreading discrimination against conventional cell phones.