In any blog or technology site, including this one, you do nothing but praise innovation by describing with enthusiasm big and small news in the field of computers and telephony. After the release of the iPhones, smartphones have taken the place of normal cell phones, changing the lives of people who can now do almost everything from their mobile phone.
The many possibilities of use are offset by numerous defects, sometimes so macroscopic as to be incredible that they have not yet been resolved.
A bit like the fact that you make a bridge over the strait before building the road to get to the bridge, so smartphones are able to measure your heart rate or advise us what to eat, but missing some things and working badly for others.
Wanting to make a small game, let's see what are the 10 main defects of modern smartphones and cellphones, trying to solve them and remedy the problems .
1) The biggest problem of any portable device, tablet or mobile phone is the duration of the battery charge .
Before the iPhone came out, traditional cell phones such as Nokia had batteries that could last 4 consecutive days before running out of charge.
Today a smartphone if it lasts until the end of the day without attaching it to the charger is a lot.
This means that, given that technological innovation cannot work miracles on batteries, a smartphone phone consumes too much energy.
Powerful processors, large and bright screens, console graphics power make it impossible to have adequate autonomy.
To solve this problem and make the battery last longer we have written at least two guides to read depending on what you have:
- 10 Apps to optimize the battery on Android and extend the charge
- Increase battery life on smartphones and cellphones
2) Understanding what you write
Maybe for young people this is not a problem, but for many people yes: the screens are large, the letters are small and above all it is difficult to write on the touchscreen keyboard.
Not to mention the automatic word corrector that often makes you go wrong and say one thing for another (someone might regret the old T9).
The only solution if you have an iPhone or another mobile phone model other than an Android device is to learn to type and write well.
For a Samsung or HTC mobile phone or other brands that have Android as the operating system, it is possible to use applications to change the type of keyboard and writing mode .
3) Do what you want .
Each mobile phone is sold by the manufacturer with some locked settings and some pre-configured applications.
If you take an iPhone, you can install thousands of applications only that then the default ones to do certain things are those already installed and you cannot change.
Other mobiles such as Samsung or HTC install their proprietary apps on Android systems making them impossible to remove.
Windows Phone are the most blocked of all and in fact there are still few applications.
The only solution to really take possession of the mobile phone and be able to do what you want is to unlock the operating system and free it from factory restrictions.
You can then read the two guides for:
- Final iOS6 jailbreak to unlock iPhone, iPod and iPad
- Root Android to have your cell phone free and unlocked
4) Be durable
Before the first real and commercially successful smartphone came out, namely the iPhone, the most popular phones were the Nokia that never broke.
A Nokia 3310 could fall from the fifth floor of the building without breaking.
Today, however, these smartphones are extremely delicate and, above all, it seems to have a two-year maturity.
After two years the smartphone is old, incompatible with new applications, incompatible with updates of the operating system and starts to lock up and restart itself as if it were about to give up.
We realize that it is all in the name of design so the more beautiful the phone is, the more delicate and fragile it will be.
5) Take nice pictures
Perhaps this problem / defect is less felt in recent years even though smartphone cameras remain, for the majority, much lower than cameras.
In another article you can see which smartphones have the best camera
6) Distraction
It's nice to have a phone that receives email, surfs the web and allows you to have fun in the dead moments with games.
The problem is that you get easily distracted, isolate yourself, lower your head on the screen even when you are in company and you lose contact with reality.
You should stop using your smartphone in the car, take out your cell phone when you are out for dinner or in the pub with friends, photograph anything, any dish and then publish a photo that nobody cares about on Instagram, chat with Whatsapp, play to Ruzzle.
7) Updates
It's amazing how quickly a "modern" phone starts to feel old-fashioned.
To resume the discussion of point 4, an Android phone of two years ago has no hope of seeing the Jelly Bean update (or even Ice Cream Sandwich).
a Windows Phone 7 smartphone may not be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8 and an iPhone 4 is incompatible with some iPhone 5 apps.
The most savvy users know that the best tactic to avoid having an old smartphone in hand is to buy the latest one that comes out and sell it as the new model arrives in order to stay up to date without spending too much.
8) Have moments of peace and tranquility
Until a decade ago it was normal to be unavailable if you are going out.
Then it became normal to be available on the call, but no one could know what I was doing.
Today, however, it is almost impossible to isolate yourself because applications such as Whatsapp and Facebook make us visible online to everyone and you cannot say "I have not seen the message" when the other person is reported online.
Silent ringing is useless and the only solution would be to disconnect the internet connection.
In general, it is advisable to disable unnecessary notifications keeping only the important ones, to give each contact a different ringing tone in order to know first whether to answer or not.
9) Save money
Today owning a smartphone is a luxury that no one gives up on.
Everything can be said, except that with a smartphone you save money because in the end everyone will go to buy some application and spend more money on an internet subscription.
Today it is normal to take out subscriptions of 30 Euros per month all inclusive even if you didn't spend 10 before.
My advice is to avoid subscriptions and use prepaid cards by taking advantage of the offers (READ ALSO: Costs and limits of mobile internet subscriptions in Italy: a disaster ), buy an Android mobile phone and forget about iPhones that have more expensive applications and installing applications for send free messages to mobile phones and free phone applications like Skype and Viber.
Obviously avoid the games that ask to pay to win; in this regard, the example of an American who was able to spend 1000 Euros in a month to buy berries in the Smurfs game is famous.
10) phone reception
Incredibly, the worst thing about a smartphone is its main function, the phone.
Nowadays one would expect cell phones to take the place of landlines and instead it cannot be so, due to the reception problems deriving from poor infrastructures and poorly designed smartphones.
Here too I can only remember the good old Nokia, with perfect reception, where the voice was heard with extreme clarity.
READ ALSO: 12 signs that you are addicted to your smartphone
