When you have access to the Internet, a digital camera, a media player and thousands of apps it’s hard to see the down side of smart phones. They seem to do everything, a one stop place to connect you with music, social contacts and all the information you could ever need, and your not the only one who thinks so. According to a recent Nielsen study 38% of Americans now own smart phones, and the percentage of smart phone purchases is on the rise. Last year 35% of new purchases were smart phone purchases, where as this year 55% of customer prefer the new style phone over the old feature phone. So whats the drawback?

With the Internet so accessible through had held devices the traditional PC method of accessing the internet has begun to go by the way side. Pew reports that nearly one third of smart phone users no longer bother with high-speed broad band connection…not a problem, right? Wrong. The smart phone is a non-programmable appliance that lets us access the internet but the connect is controlled by large corporations that can regulate use. Right now every new and innovative idea can be posted on the internet and implemented via software, no regulator or gatekeepers to keep you out. Accessing the internet through smart phones could change that. Regulators, in this case large corporations, could decide what information gets accessed and therefore slow the pace of innovation and human progress.

Read the full article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/17/smartphones-internet-corporate-threat