Literature Review on Mobile Phones

LITERATURE REVIEW: MOBILE PHONES AND ITS USAGE
Today, mobile phones are very common and prevalent in our society. Human relationship and mental concentration are now replaced by electronic connections.Mobile phones have become a necessity and this industry is taking every one’s mind by storm. This technology brought many facilities with it i.e. convenience, ease of usage, accessibility because of which people gets connected with each other in case of emergency, can enjoy music, can carry it anywhere and many more.
Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to patent telephone in the year 1876. Dr. Martin Cooper is known worldwide as the inventor of the modern day cell phone. He not only created the device but he was also the first individual to place a call from a mobile phone in 1973. The concept of e cell phone had been around since 1947, it took 26 years for that concept to make it to reality. . For many people cell phones have become their whole life. Children in today’s times know a lot more about using these devices than parents. Therefore, Parents generally need their child’s assistance to help them learn how to operate it. In return, this allows parents and children to have a certain bond and talk to each other more often than they did.
More than half (53%) of teens that text message think their relationship with their parents has improved because of text messaging. Cell phones have become so popular that it has decreased face to face interaction which is not a healthy impact of life.
In a survey conducted among the college students of 475, most of own a mobile phone while some of them have more than one phone. There are many who use more than one SIM in their phones. Some of them use smart phones. 90% of the students use the phone on internet to chat with their friends and most of them spent time in SMS’s. There are a few who browse their assignments and work. About 80% (percent) for listening to music and entertainment and spent most evenings with these gadgets.
In today’s recession-racked economy, penny-pinching is a national pastime. But people are still opening their wallets for smartphones.Sales of Blackberry’s, iPhones and other smartphone models are rising smartly and are projected to increase 25 percent this year, according to Gartner, a research business.

Related to health issue, it is said that mobile phones releases electromagnetic radiations that has a direct contact with brain causing brain tumours and acoustic neuromas..The risk of behavioral problems increased along with the mother's mobile phone use during pregnancy, researchers surveyed.. If children used the phones themselves while very young, they were 80 percent more likely to suffer behavioral difficulties, 25 percent more likely to suffer from emotional problems, 34 percent more likely to have trouble relating to their peers, 35 percent more likely to be hyperactive and 49 percent more likely to have conduct problems than children who did not use mobile phones...
Increased usage of mobile phone has also threatened the road safety and it caused many accidents. Therefore, mobile phone usage during driving is prohibited. It is seen that young adults are more likely to use mobile phones and its extra features. 32% youngest cell phone users said that they cannot live without their cell phones.
One in 10 mobile owners now has a second handset, a survey has suggested. The international Motorola study found that the spare gets used for love affairs, clandestine business dealings or, somewhat less excitingly, just as an individual hotline between friends. The addiction of children to their mobile phones could threaten the very fabric of society, a study suggests.
Many teenagers have been so dependent on cell phones to contact with their friends. If the trend continues, young people will soon be incapable of forming and maintaining relationships without the help of a mobile, the study by a leading sociologist concludes .One British child in four between the ages of five and 16 now has a mobile phone. As well as making calls, youngsters are using their handsets to send millions of text messages to friends each day, showing their addiction.
It is a fact that mobile devices are being targeted by cybercriminals due to lack of security. For example, the number of variants of malicious software aimed at mobile devices has reportedly risen from about 14,000 to 40,000 or about 185% in less than a year, the GAO stated..