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SMARTPHONESSVOVA, TSITSI GRACIOUS
TUTORIAL TWO
WHAT IS A SMARTPHONE?
• A smartphone is a device that lets you make telephone calls, but also adds features that you might find on a personal digital assistant or a computer. A smartphone also offers the ability to send and receive e-mail and edit Office documents, for example.
PRODUCTIVITY
• Rapid increase of mobile usage has given us a productivity boost compared to the days when phones were a privilege and it took months to acquire phone services.
• However, today it is likely that we have eked out the majority of the improvements possible, and now seeing the downside: productivity losses that are occuring due to bad cellphone habits.
COMMUNICATION IN WORKPLACE
• Companies can now handle business applications using mobile devices of different vendors.
• Entire business communications like for example CRM(customer relationship management) can be used with the smartphones.
• Guarantee a high confidentiality of data transferred data.
• Access to complex business applications and company information at any time and independent from the location.
COMMUNICATION IN WORKPLACE
• History of customer contacts, price lists and information on products can be accessed at an outside the office meeting with clients.
• However, not all unified communication funtions are supported by every smartphone provider.
• Calls can be initiated via the smartphone and can be made via the company network(via fixed-line phone network).
• Company database can be accessed anywhere and everywhere.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
• Smartphones have become a very essential economic tool for communication between friends and family.
• Instant messaging with the same smart phones.
• Video calling• Smartphones have actually brought families
that are far apart closer together.
EDUCATION
• Permanent access to some virtual textbooks because teachers thought it less expensive to read a freeware book or courses or internet than to pay for buying or copying them on Xerox.
• Parents can access a database with their children’s marks and presences.
• Interactive courses. Instead of handouts with lots of writing, videos and images can be used and shared with other students online.
EDUCATION
• Online classes, online courses and online attendance can be done using your smartphone.
• Class notifications and notes can also be accessed on the smartphone.
• Over 3,400 education applications available to download on iTune store.
STATISTICS
• 31% of mobile phone owners have a smartphone as of December 2010.
• Smartphones accounted for 297million(19%) of the 1.6billion mobile phones sold in 2010. 72,1% more than 2009.
• Expected growth of 95million in 2011.
MARKETSHARE STATS…
•2010 in the USA, RIM had 31,6% share of the smartphone ownership market, followed by Android(28.7%) and Apple (25%).•The top five smartphone manufacturers by marketshare for 2010 was, NOKIA, Apple, RIM, Samsung and HTC.
OPERATING SHARE STATS..
•Symbian dominated the operating systems share.•Sales of smartphones(android), jumped almost 900% compared to 2009 in 2010.•December 2010, RIM, iPhone and Android(27-28%) installed base of smartphone users.
RESEARCH
• HOW DO SMARTPHONES AFFECT BUSINESS(Ring Central)?
• Smartphones have intimate relationships tied(40%) for being the number one thing respondents cannot live without.
• Majority(79%) of the respondents cite the smartphones as the phone they used the most to conduct business, as compared to an office phone or home phone.
• Smartphones are encrouching on computers as well, with 34% of respondents using the smartphones more than the computer for business.
CONCLUSION
• Smartphones have affected people’s everyday lives as noted above, with most of the effects being positive.
• There are negative effects of smartphones which include addictions, health problems only to mention a few.
• However, the negative effects are outweighed by the positive effects.