Can You Afford not to Have the Latest Mobile

Technology?

For some people their smart phone is their only computer, with this trend more pronounced in

Asia.

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Who needs business cards anymore when you can just bump phones?

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Splitting a business meal and everyone needs a copy of the itemized bill?...

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...now you can just use an app like Evernote to take a photo of the bill and file and categorize it.

No more missing receipts!

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Why pay full price for a book when you can download it for less?

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Still paying for long distance? Skype for Free!

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With stock alerts and smart phones we can finally buy and sell stocks on the go.

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The death of the stand alone GPS unit.

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Looking for the cheapest price on a product? Scan the barcode and get instant prices from competing

merchants.

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Remember spending money on pay phones? They are now almost extinct.

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What kind of impression would using an older phone give to your business associates?

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Still spending money on travel?

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You can save a fortune with video-conferencing.

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Find out where your friends are and get special deals sent to your phone.

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Text messages are now even an important fundraising tool.

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There are so many useful things you can do on smart phones that data usage now uses more

bandwidth than actual phone calls.

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Do you remember when we had secretaries?...

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...Now we use our phones as mobile offices and digital secretaries.

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Do you remember when you had to have a fax machine?...

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...Now our smart phones are mobile fax machines.

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Jenny puts on a brave face but secretly worries why Microsoft has not responded to the resume

she sent by telegram weeks ago.

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Smart phones and Ipads are huge hits with children so the next generation will give inner

meaning to the term Digital Native.

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Sources Cited

1. The Toronto Star, Monday, Feb.7, 2001, Rob Ferguson, Queen's Park Bureau

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/934673--iphone-apps-a-hit-with-preschoolers

2. The Telegraph, March 26, 2010, Matt Warman, Consumer Technology

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7528153/Data-bigger-than-voice-on-mobile-networks.html