How can owning a smartphone make your life more productive? Comfortable? Easier?

How can owning a smartphone make your life actually less productive? Uncomfortable? Difficult/stressful?



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It can definitely make your life easier. Particularly things like syncing calendars, anki and looking stuff up on the internet on the go like train/bus timetables, map directions etc.

I suppose it could cut into your productivity as you could spend a lot of time on it playing games or whatever but that's not to do with the phone, that's to do with your self-control. I can't imagine how it would make your life uncomfortable or stressful. How you use it is up to you.

pudding cat Wrote:I can't imagine how it would make your life uncomfortable or stressful. How you use it is up to you.

If you start spending to much time on your smartphone/ dive into the world of the smartphone and don't get important things done, you might become stressful.

As a smartphone has many functions it might be uncomfortable to use it for the sake of doing 1 task, fe calling:

You might turn the phone on, and then will start checking facebook and twitter, mixi or start listening to music just after calling.
It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")

jettyke Wrote:

pudding cat Wrote:I can't imagine how it would make your life uncomfortable or stressful. How you use it is up to you.

If you start spending to much time on your smartphone/ dive into the world of the smartphone and don't get important things done, you might become stressful.

True, but only if you have no self-control/time management skills. It's kind of your fault and not the smartphone's.

jettyke Wrote:As a smartphone has many functions it might be uncomfortable to use it for the sake of doing 1 task, fe calling:

You might turn the phone on, and then will start checking facebook and twitter, mixi or start listening to music just after calling.
It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")

Again all true but as I said it's up to your self-control. If you have none then getting a smartphone may not be the best idea.

You can study anywhere, and that's pretty much what I do everywhere thanks to my iPhone. I had class today from 9am to 3:45, and I got 412 Anki reviews done in that time in between classes and while commuting.

jettyke Wrote:It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")

Simple. Don't link facebook/twitter/whatever to your phone. I have a facebook account, but one thing I REFUSE to do is link my phone to them. I have a smartphone and enjoy the portability it gives me to use Anki, use the internet, etc. I refuse to let it rule me, though.

nohika Wrote:

jettyke Wrote:It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")

Simple. Don't link facebook/twitter/whatever to your phone. I have a facebook account, but one thing I REFUSE to do is link my phone to them. I have a smartphone and enjoy the portability it gives me to use Anki, use the internet, etc. I refuse to let it rule me, though.

Maybe then it would be good to only have applications that you really need installed, without any additional ones ( that are not really necessary). Just to not get out of control.

For example:

Anki
Google calendar
Evernote
Google maps
Aedict (japanese dictionary)
Music/podcast player

What I like is that owning a smartphone saves physical space.
You don't have to own a notebook, a deshijisho a laptop for anki, and a mobile phone separately, but you can use them all on the same device.

But the key is to use a smartphone for your own benefit and not let yourself get being used by it. And the question is.

What are good things/apps to have on a smartphone?
What are bad things to have on a smartphone?
no doubt it varies greatly from person to person but...

How to make the most of owning a smartphone?

jettyke Wrote:How to make the most of owning a smartphone?

I think this is an essential and very important question and so it deserves a separate thread, more specifically for learning Japanese.

Just install what you need, remove anything too distracting, and learn to use airplane mode when you don't want people calling you or whatever.

undead_saif Wrote:

jettyke Wrote:How to make the most of owning a smartphone?

I think this is an essential and very important question and so it deserves a separate thread, more specifically for learning Japanese.

You're right. I will make a new one afterall.