In over two decades, people’s lives have changed ! ~ just stand at a busy traffic signal and observe people.Two wheeler riders look at their mobiles impatiently as vehicles stop at Red signal – you see people hooked up and talking on their mobiles while driving vehicles – people require maps to go to places, which they used to enquire upon reaching a nearby spot. How addicted are you to mobile can perhaps be answered by the usage !is phone simply a talking device or is it a tablet showing videos, movies or is it a treasure-trove containing data, info, and more of all Worldly affairs, does it provide access to social media including twitter, FB, WA, Instagram and more .. how many Apps do you have installed on them ! ~ money apps, food apps and .. .. and how much of your life is spent on mobiles from morning till night ? – you know the answer. For listening to music, a mobile phone is much more widely used than listening to a radio. For taking photos, mobiles are more widely used than digital and dslr cameras. For communicating, chatting, mobiles are the most preferred form. As India prepares for a cashless decade, yet another mobile phone company is likely to foray into fintech. OPPO is reportedly gearing to launch its own financial service, OPPO Kash, in India by June 2020. This app, integrated into its phones, will extend one-click micro loans with flexible repayment options. The Chinese smartphone maker follows in the footsteps of its peers, Xiaomi and Realme, who launched their own digital payments solutions last year. Away, a report in BBC is sort of larming. The Childwise report found children getting mobiles at an earlier age, with most now having their own phone by the age of seven. The average time spent on mobiles by seven to 16-year-olds is three hours and 20 minutes per day. (looks very low by our standards !) Researcher Simon Leggett says mobiles can "dominate children's lives". When phones are always so close at hand, as a "private and personal technology", Mr Leggett says it can be tough for parents to put limits on how children use them. The survey, based on interviews with 2,200 children in the UK aged five to 16, shows the pivotal place of the mobile phone in young lives. There are 57% who always have the phone beside their bed and 44% who feel "uncomfortable" if they are ever without a phone signal. There are 42% who say they keep their phone on them at all times and never turn it off. For more than 70% of children, their phones will be connected to the internet. Whether it is chatting to each other, watching entertainment or getting information, mobile phones are the main online gateway for young people. The survey shows a media landscape dominated by digital and on-demand services. YouTube, a veteran by online standards, remains dominant, used by 61% of children every day, mostly on mobile phones. It is the favorite app and website of this age group, used as the most typical starting point for videos, particularly "funny" clips, listening to music, "how to" tutorials or watching programmes. Moving away, is our mobile a phone or an ornament or something of a status symbol ? – people buy very costly mobiles ! ~ the word ‘costly’ can be a relative term as compared to one’s wealth or say one month’s salary.Again make a personal reference – how costly is your mobile (less than a month’s salary or more !)
How Addicted Are You to Mobile ? - and What Mobile Do You Have ??
Posted on the 03 February 2020 by Sampathkumar SampathIn over two decades, people’s lives have changed ! ~ just stand at a busy traffic signal and observe people.Two wheeler riders look at their mobiles impatiently as vehicles stop at Red signal – you see people hooked up and talking on their mobiles while driving vehicles – people require maps to go to places, which they used to enquire upon reaching a nearby spot. How addicted are you to mobile can perhaps be answered by the usage !is phone simply a talking device or is it a tablet showing videos, movies or is it a treasure-trove containing data, info, and more of all Worldly affairs, does it provide access to social media including twitter, FB, WA, Instagram and more .. how many Apps do you have installed on them ! ~ money apps, food apps and .. .. and how much of your life is spent on mobiles from morning till night ? – you know the answer. For listening to music, a mobile phone is much more widely used than listening to a radio. For taking photos, mobiles are more widely used than digital and dslr cameras. For communicating, chatting, mobiles are the most preferred form. As India prepares for a cashless decade, yet another mobile phone company is likely to foray into fintech. OPPO is reportedly gearing to launch its own financial service, OPPO Kash, in India by June 2020. This app, integrated into its phones, will extend one-click micro loans with flexible repayment options. The Chinese smartphone maker follows in the footsteps of its peers, Xiaomi and Realme, who launched their own digital payments solutions last year. Away, a report in BBC is sort of larming. The Childwise report found children getting mobiles at an earlier age, with most now having their own phone by the age of seven. The average time spent on mobiles by seven to 16-year-olds is three hours and 20 minutes per day. (looks very low by our standards !) Researcher Simon Leggett says mobiles can "dominate children's lives". When phones are always so close at hand, as a "private and personal technology", Mr Leggett says it can be tough for parents to put limits on how children use them. The survey, based on interviews with 2,200 children in the UK aged five to 16, shows the pivotal place of the mobile phone in young lives. There are 57% who always have the phone beside their bed and 44% who feel "uncomfortable" if they are ever without a phone signal. There are 42% who say they keep their phone on them at all times and never turn it off. For more than 70% of children, their phones will be connected to the internet. Whether it is chatting to each other, watching entertainment or getting information, mobile phones are the main online gateway for young people. The survey shows a media landscape dominated by digital and on-demand services. YouTube, a veteran by online standards, remains dominant, used by 61% of children every day, mostly on mobile phones. It is the favorite app and website of this age group, used as the most typical starting point for videos, particularly "funny" clips, listening to music, "how to" tutorials or watching programmes. Moving away, is our mobile a phone or an ornament or something of a status symbol ? – people buy very costly mobiles ! ~ the word ‘costly’ can be a relative term as compared to one’s wealth or say one month’s salary.Again make a personal reference – how costly is your mobile (less than a month’s salary or more !)