Top 6 Advantages of Mobile Phones

Easy Communication: 

• The main advantage of using mobile phones is that they make the mode of communication easier and cheaper. Due to low cost, mobiles are affordable and there has been a revolution in the telecom industry where approximately 95% of people use mobile phones for communication. Mobile makes communication easy, just by pressing some key on mobile, we can communicate with our friends, family members or colleagues and others anytime. Mobile gives us a facility to communicate with our colleagues through voice calls, video calls, text messages, recorded calls and more.

Helpful in Emergency Situations:

• Imagine a situation where you are driving on an unknown road, and the car gets stuck. So in this situation, mobile is the first device that helps us to call the mechanic or any family member to get rid of the problem. If we get sick and need a doctor, and no one is at home. So in this situation, mobile is a device that we can use for fast communication.

Education: 

• This is another major advantage of mobile phones. Mobile phones can be used to gain knowledge or information about various subjects. For convenience, nowadays, most of the colleges, institutes and schools are providing online education with appropriate study material which can be in the form of images, photos, text, PDF etc. During the Covid Pandemic, we have seen students taking online classes provided by their respective institutions to ensure the safety and health of the students.

Earn Money Through Mobile: 

• We can earn money using our smartphone. We can create blogs, YouTube videos, business promotions and other activities to earn money.

GPS Position:

• This is one of the best benefits of mobile phones. Mobile gives us information about current location and destination. Before mobile phones, it was difficult to track location, but after the development of mobiles, tracking current location and destination has become easy. We can select a destination on the map, and it will give us directions and also suggest us the shortest route and estimated time to reach there.

Business promotion:

• Mobile phones can be used for business promotion. Mobile phone is best for entrepreneurs or businessmen to promote their business through online or offline sources. In online sources, one can use social media websites and messaging applications such as Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp, Pinterest and others. Most of the leading companies arrange their meetings on video messaging applications like Skype. One of the old offline methods for business promotion using mobile phones is text messaging. In todays age, most companies are still promoting their business through text messages. At the end of every message, they place a link to their product page or business website.

Top 6 Disadvantages of Mobile Phones

Addiction:

• Addiction to mobile phone is called “Nomophobia”. In this mental disorder, people cannot stop themselves from using mobile phones. They can not even imagine themselves without a mobile. Excessive use of mobile phones makes a person addicted to them.

Loss of education:

• Excessive use of mobile phones is a major problem for students. Most of the mobile phones affect the students studies. Mobile phone distracts students from their studies. Students mainly focus on playing games on mobile, watching movies and other entertainment which lowers their grades.

Distraction:

• Sometimes mobile is an annoying device that creates a distraction in your work. This is seen in students who are easily distracted from their studies due to mobile, because the device has applications that attract users to enjoy their software. One such application is various mobile games that are played for days which make people addicted and distract them from their goals.

Health problems:

• Excessive use of mobile phones causes health problems such as puffiness of the eyes and other problems with vision. Mobile phones include mental disorders like anger, depression, anxiety, tension etc.

Accident:

• People are glued to their mobiles, even walking down the street or driving. Using a mobile phone while driving causes accidents and endangers the lives of others. Using mobile while driving is very dangerous, as mobile users while driving can injure themselves and cause death of other people through accidents.

Ear problems:

• Listening to music, watching movies or making long calls with headphones or headsets can damage a persons hearing. Studies have shown that listening at high volume using headphones seriously impairs the ears ability to hear voices accurately.

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