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