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A Technological Giant. The Cell Phone. My Best Friend

July 29, 2008

For a time the cell-phone was perhaps considered a plaything of the wealthy and a tool for businesses but not anymore with it fast becoming the most important piece of technology you can own.

It makes you wonder if the bubble will ever burst on this most amazing success story. Even though the number of available functions in today’s land based telephones has improved, there is still a long way for it to go to compete with the cell phone.

It is the number of functions that can be added to the cell-phone that puts it ahead of its landline based cousin. To make them a little more individual, new features like backgrounds called cellular phone wallpaper have been added.

Now, changing your wallpaper couldn’t be easier with web sites set up just for this purpose. Not only can modern phones communicate between each other which makes transferring screen wallpaper a simple process but it can even be created and shared using the cell-phones digital camera. If you prefer you can use an image you have captured previously on your own digital camera but the set up can take a bit more time.

If that is not enough, just to personalize the cellular phone wallpaper a little more, an individual text message can be displayed on the image. Still, even if you have an older cell-phone that does not support all this new technology, it does not mean you cannot enjoy your cell-phone. Still, even if your model cannot accept new screen backgrounds, it may well accept ring tones which will give you that personal touch. The ability to change backgrounds and ring tones is for many just the icing on the cake so as long as it can make calls, that is enough.

You do not need to have special background or ring tones to send a text message do you? Your phone does not need these additional features such as unusual ring tones or fancy cellular phone wallpapers to operate and, if it came to the crunch, what would you prefer; a model that worked when you needed it to or one that just looked attractive?

Although not remembered these days, you should always exhibit good telephone etiquette and not use your phone when it disturbs others. Your phone should complement you and not be an extension of yourself as it you that people will decide whether or not has any social etiquette.

There are many locations where it is not suitable, or accepted that a cell phone should be used, and you will have more respect from others if you turn it off when you are in this type of situation. Good behavior can be catching and yours may lead others to do the same, be different, do not do what others do just because it is easier. It is a two-way thing, if you exhibit telephone etiquette, the people around you will do the same.

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