In the increasingly advancing world of technology there is also a rising demand for newer, brighter, [evhs1] and flashier smart phones. These devices are the newest technology available in the cell phone industry and have virtually eliminated all regular non-smart phone markets. This paired with the continuous opening of businesses around the world; these new and old businesses alike have seen the benefits of these smart phones sky rocket over the past few years.
You can go online and purchase virtually anything you might need from a PC to your smart phone[evhs2] . Things to help you manage accounts track employees on jobs, and ones that could virtually run your business for you. The use of laptops out in the field are becoming obsolete for law enforcement officers and agents both on the government level all the way down to local law enforcement. The survey of small and large businesses, released in 2008 by J. Gold Associates, projected that the use of smart phones in corporate settings will double over the next three years. The survey found that the number of smart phone devices will grow about 30 percent in the next year, and will have doubled over three years. The use of business applications on smart phones is also projected to grow, by 71 percent over one year and 196 percent over three years.
These new phones have made it easier to stay in touch in the field as well. Not only do some apps allow you to track the location of your employees and yourself but also allow you to converse with those that may be miles and miles away from where you are. With so many 3G and 4G towers being put up communication via short wave radios are becoming more and more difficult as the amount of interference rises. But with these new apps coming out you are able to read charts and fill out forms not on a piece of paper where handwriting can be mistaken but you can do so on your smart phone and be sent directly back to your boss without having to wait to go back to headquarters for them to receive information. These new phones allow you to look up company information or procedures without having to go through an enormous book to find out which wire to cut. You can easily search through the whole book with just a few taps of a screen and a tap of a button.
Yet another enormous feat is when sales men and women are out selling products, they are able to look up every single detail, even ones they don’t know existed, in an instant. In one report done by the LA Times business magazine it stated that after a one hundred companies distributed smart phones, sales increased in those companies by an average of 13% and when surveys were taken by the customers 88% of them said that “they purchased their respective products for quality and knowledge of the salesperson”. These phones also allow the salesperson to look up comparisons to their products and offer discounts on ones that are found at a lower price at another company.
This new and competitive product has also helped in stimulating the economy. It is bringing about new jobs for people in the information technology field, not only there but in cell phone service providers around the world, also providing new jobs for people to sell these phones to service providers[evhs3] . It has also created competition within companies allowing them to sell more products a hire on new people to help assemble these phones and ensure they work by hiring beta testers for the phones. In the third quarter alone (march-august) when the new DROID hit the market their net earnings alone for the first month was 199 million dollars and possibly more including sales on their other phones alone.
Major corporations have integrated these technologies into their workplaces and continuously find new ways that these new phones help their companies flourish. With a multitude of apps to solve any given problem they are becoming a valuable asset into company’s inner workings and seem to have a lasting and profound effect on how businesses operate. And these phones will continue to pop up in more and more companies each year.
