2. Conceptualization of Important Concept ``The impact of Smartphone Usage among Students’’
2.1 The impact of smartphone
The impact have a lot of meaning and definition. The word impact has been used in a long time ago which is describe the what influenced the person about something ( Dr Colen, 2001). According to the oxford Dictionaries, impact means any forceful effect on something physically, such as something crashing into something or an effect on someone mentally or emotionally. Moreover, it is also could be mean by degree to which objective are achieved and which targeted problem are solved. Identifying and fleshing out true public impact in our extension programs is essential to developing effective impact reporting. Demand for impact information mounts as lawmakers, the public and our partners all want to know about the return on investments in land-grant university extension, research and teaching. Understanding the essence of true public impact, or benefit is key ( Coberg, 2001) .We often report things like attendance figures, what people like about an event, the number of meetings held or acres served, a new grant as impact. While some of this information provides context, none is impact.
In the past few years, the mobile device and mobile services markets have been affected by the strong emergence of smartphones. Smartphones offer a platform for new kind of applications and services and the devices are more integrated into the users everyday lives. This capabilities of the smartphones give a possibility to collect usage data by using on device data collection software( David N.Chin, 2001). The data in turn can be used to differ information about the smartphones usage habits and behavior. In the past few years, the mobile device services markets have been affected by the strong emergence of smartphones.
Smartphones are mobile phones that offer advanced