Smartphones.
The general purpose of a phone is communication between two persons in a different geographical area. The telephone’s inception came about from the need to have a mobile device to communicate when the telephone was no longer convenient. Quality in the context of phones can be defined as productivity, reliability, or performance. It is the sustainability of a particular object to its general-purpose. A smartphone though maintaining the general-purpose, is designed to be far more than a communication tool. It Is used as a social tool made possible by technological advancements. The smartphone industry has seen phones range between both ends of the spectrum; some are cheap others are outrageously expensive.
The evolution of smartphones casts light into engineering techniques that have kept the phone valid in its uses and improve its features to accommodate multiple uses and enhance the aspect of communication. The first smartphone was designed by IBM in 1992 and introduced into the market in 1994. The phone had the following features: a touch screen, the ability to send and receive e-mails and faxes, a calendar, standard predictive stylus, an address book, a scheduler, and an input screen keyboard. These features became the baseline of all major smartphone designs. The phone was, however, not compact or sleek as the modern-day ones. The IBMsmartphone dominated the market until 2001 when the internet was incorporated in the phone. Mobile communications standards were designed to allow portable electronics to access the internet. The introduction of the internet upped the ante for smartphones, as people engaged in video conferencing, large attachment e-mails and fax, and other audio-visual accompaniments. 2007 was the most influential year in the smartphone industry that saw the release of the first iPhone. The phone came with the ability to browse the web as if n a desktop computer. theiPhone offered 4G internet and better storage with 4GB and 8Gb. It had 8 hours of talk time and 20 hours of standby time, a massive improvement. People could now go for a day without having to charge their phones.
Today, smartphones have dominated the world with a rise in the Android system, hardware and software interactions of smartphones, rise, and monetization of mobile applications and careers such as mobile photographers. With these improvements came the rise in social media. Human beings are social beings, and each engineering milestone recognizes the need for interaction, which has seen social sites applications sell for billions of dollars. The purpose of communication is enhanced in an overall ensemble of photography, videography, face times, and other social concepts. Bakker and Loui (1997) state Companies producing cheap phones are in existed to cater to the needs of the majority who would otherwise be locked out of the product. Even though their end product is cheap, the purpose is meant, which makes it ethically upright. The company’s duty of care to society and the people’s demands are in coexistence, making the product of quality. Ethical duty calls for honesty in advertising, which seeks to inform the consumer on the phone without exaggeration or motive to sell it for what it is not. Under social contract, the company must ensure its customers have the information required to decide to improve their quality of life.