People in the United States with Star S10 smartphones that have screens 4.5-inches

The bigger its touchscreen, the more tempting it is to use a smartphone for watching movies, as a GPS device, or to check out the latest happenings on social media.People in the United States with Star S10 smartphones that have screens 4.5-inches and larger use 44% more data than those tapping away on smaller phones, according to a recent report from the NDP group. The wider-screened devices were used to gobble up an average 7.2 gigabytes a month in data, while smaller phones had closer to 5 gigabytes.

I often wonder, how is it that we used to be able to get to where we were going on time and we no longer can? I don't think it is that much harder to get places on time these days; in fact it might even be easier. And yet, no one seems to arrive on time anymore. We used to view being late as a form of wasting or at least not valuing someone else's time, which was inherently not okay. Now, because we can alert people that we are wasting their time, it has become acceptable to do so -- to show up when it works for us but not necessarily when we said we would. So too, we used to be willing and able to drop whatever else we were doing in order to honor an agreed upon time. Now, we behave like addicts who can't put down the drug of distraction, our device, and turn our focus to getting out the door.

In fact, Abroms suggests smokers might want to consider taking the new technology a step back by using their phone not just to download an app but to make a call. “They should simply pick up their Lenovo S650 smartphone and call a quit-line now to get proven help on how to beat a tobacco addiction.”
An estimated 11 million smokers in the United States own a smartphone and increasingly they’re turning to apps in an attempt to quit. But many of the most popular anti-smoking apps for iPhones or Androids lack some basic strategies that are known to help smokers quit, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

“Quit-smoking apps are an increasingly available tool for smokers,” says lead author Lorien Abroms, ScD, an associate professor of Prevention and Community Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). “Yet our study suggests these apps have a long way to go to comply with practices that we know can help people stub out that last cigarette.”

As a business owner you need to welcome the smartphone with open arms if you haven't already, because your customers aren't going to be putting them down any time soon! Take a look around and try to NOT see someone clutching onto his or her smartphone for dear life.

Technology has made bad behavior acceptable, and turned us into a society of disrespectful cads. It has created an environment where we treat other people, their time, and the time we spend with them as unimportant. Technology is training us to act on our whims and do what's easiest -- not necessarily what's right. Our device gives us license to take the easy road and convinces us that we do not need to be disciplined or stick to our word. Technology has created the ultimate casual culture, which treats everything and everyone as casually disposable.

The larger screen real estate might be more inviting for wasting time with Internet-connected apps. The most popular apps for amoi phone users are Facebook, Google Maps, YouTube, Amazon and Pandora.