Smartphones

5 Important Features of Future Smartphones

5 Important Features of Future Smartphones

As the name suggests, smartphones possess smarter capabilities than mobile phones, providing then additional, now essential functions like web browsing, multimedia entertainment, games etc, much like mini-computers, only small enough to fit in your pocket. Smartphones appeared in the market close to two decades ago as the alternative to mobile phones which carry the primary function to enable only two-way communication by text or calls. The smartphones of today have other extended capabilities including in-built…

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Are Smartphones Changing The Shape of Our Brains?

Are Smartphones Changing The Shape of Our Brains?

People who use touchscreens daily have a larger somatosensory cortex This is the area at the centre of the brain which controls the thumbs Swiss team tracked 37 volunteers over ten days – 27 of them using touchscreen phones, and 11 using traditional mobiles with fixed buttons During these tests, researchers monitored each user’s brain waves Those using touchscreen phones had altered the function of their cortex Smartphones have become so integral to modern life,…

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