Cell Phones

Cell phones are increasing becoming more and more advanced. You can text message and download ring tones and games. Maybe you can even watch a little television and do some limited web browsing. In future you will be able to watch whole television shows or sporting events. A British research firm estimates that 125 million people will be watching television on their phones within five years. Our cell phones are currently using a 14.4 kbps downloading speed, which is really slow. The new 3G technology data can be transferred at rates between 64 and 384 kilobytes per second, a blazing speed compared to most common phones. Some newer phones already have 2.5 GB memory stick which can hold a large amount of data. Some phones are already digital hooked up to a computer, so you can receive and send emails and also get documents off your own computer. In the future phones will be four times as fast as the normal homes broadband. Batteries are becoming more advanced and will need to last long with more use of the cell phone. GPS devices, games, and music are all becoming more advanced with the new technology of mp3 and better games. If Virgina Tech students had all these new technologies to receive emails on their cell phones in the middle of class. Everyone would have been notified and aware of the situation that struck the campus. I believe it would have saved many lives and would have caught the killer before he had made the second attack on the students and faculty. But can you look at technology as a savior or can you say if we had it, somethings would not have happened the way they did? I pray for the victims and their families I wish tragedies like this would never occur.
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