How Smartphones Have Replaced Computers and Laptops
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“Good things come in small packages,” goes a popular adage. One glance at the pocket-friendly smartphone and one will see that the age-old saying is true. It’s easy to notice how this portable electronic device has pervaded almost every vital aspect of human life.
Packing a wide gamut of cutting-edge features and functions into its compact body, the 21st century mobile phone has long overcome its past identity of an electronic gadget primarily used to store contacts, make and receive calls, and send texts. It has since firmly positioned itself as an unbelievably smart device, successfully replacing and outdating many critical gadgets that were essential for the smooth functioning of people’s daily lives and is fast replacing several others, including the bulky personal computers.
Today, one can hardly imagine a day without the support of these versatile multipurpose phones that have made life unbelievably convenient by allowing people to perform a host of seemingly simple but crucial tasks with just a few swipes and taps of the fingertips. Smartphones are a one-stop destination for people’s varied needs. These pint-sized gadgets pack amazing values:
• Razor-sharp Computing Power & Adequate Storage Capabilities
The smartphones are modern-day minicomputers which are enabled with beefier batteries, with superior processing powers comparable to desktop computers in handling huge volumes of data. With most smartphones having internal storages between 16GB and 128GB – expandable with an external memory card – there’s now little need for a computer to archive treasured photos and videos and confidential office files.
• Round-the-clock Accessibility to the Internet and Important Applications
The highly portable smartphones have possible for people to calculate and compute, respond to emails, take notes and create graphs and presentations on-the-go without having to rely on desktops or laptops. With all-time access to the entire suite of Microsoft Office, 24/7 availability of the internet via Wi-Fi and mobile data networks, and improved network speeds, one can literally access important business emails on a lightweight phone – wherever, whenever!
• The World Brought to One’s Fingertips with Mobile Apps
The advent of the ‘access-on-demand’ mobile apps have truly catapulted the humble cell phones into an extraordinary league of their own, making obsolete many household gadgets that were once necessities for their life-saving functions. Now, with just a smartphone taking care of so many diverse needs, it is not surprising that these intelligent phones have gradually made many devices, including the computers, an optional choice for many.
• Seamless Browsing with Responsive Designs
For a long time, canvas-like computers made surfing the net and navigating through websites a highly enjoyable affair. Such activities were borderline cumbersome when performed on the relatively smaller screens of the diminutive cell phones as web pages were not flexible enough to adjust and resize themselves to the changing devices, screen sizes and resolutions.
Smartphones changed all that with the evolution of a responsive web design approach. Leveraging a clever mix of CSS-media queries, images and fluid grids and layouts that emphasize on sizing the page elements by proportion and not by pixels, responsive designs enable websites to automatically respond to a user’s preferences such that there is seemingly no difference in the clarity of the web pages when one views them on a laptop or on the display of a smartphone.
• Information Searches Made Effortless with AIEnabled Virtual Assistants
Looking up facts and figures using a real keyboard is way more hassle-free and convenient than typing search words using the virtual keyboard of a touch phone. More so now, with the development of intelligent personal assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant, the fingers can have some much-needed rest and use natural voice commands to indulge in personalized interactions. These personal ‘assistants’ allow one to ask questions and retrieve information easily using his smartphone. According to Google, searches on mobile devices have exceeded that on computers in most countries.
• Price Matters!
While high-end smartphones are quite expensive, there are also many smartphone variants in the market that are available at attractive price ranges to suit every budget. But compare the price of an all-encompassing smartphone with that of a powerful desktop or a laptop, more often than not the smartphone can open up a world of possibilities at prices that are worth swooning over.