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June 17 2013 Age of Smart phone: iPhone Popular Culture is intimately connected with education, mass communication, production and a society's ability to access knowledge. There are lots of popular cultures but the most in trend and the most with the high need is cell phone which has to be smart phone. It has been now 40 years since the first cell phone was used. In 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola used a first wireless cell phone to make a call walking down street of New York City to his rival Joel Engel head of Bell Labs. Motorola Dynatac was only able to make a phone call and its battery would last 20 minutes and needed 10 hours to charge. Personally I think people would have benefited from Dynatac while making a call because it would have also helped us to do some works out after all it weighed 2.5 pounds. Now if we compare the weight of an iPhone 5, 3.95 ounces to that of Dynatac we can see enormous accomplishment made by the cell phone. Not just its size as the cell phone grew smaller and thinner more function were included and so we now have smart phones. The iPhone is a multimedia enabled smart phone designed, manufactured and marketed by Apple Inc. The first of its kind was introduced in early 2007 and since then it has gained great popularity among its users. Apple Inc. describes iPhone as combination of three features Mobile phone, I-pod and a wireless communication device. The smartphone has a variety of complex and advanced functionalities and its use has always left the users delighted. Cell phone when first was available for public it cost $3995 and the only option available
was voice communication. These days it comes with lots of other feature and the price ranges from $400 to $700. We have message, email, face time and lots of other application which allows us to communicate without having to pay extra money. One of the most intriguing functions that we can use these days is face time. Face time is a built-in