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Our Reliance on Cell Phones

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Could you go a week without your cell phone? The evolution of cell phones, has came a long way from that of what it was two decades ago. Twenty years ago, people did not have the privilege of every that cell phones offers today than back then. In the eighty's when you wanted to watch a movie or a TV show, you had to either be at home or at the movie theaters. For music they carry around a little old thing call a walkmans or boomboxes. Then there are those moments you just want capture in a photo, but would need a camera for it. If lost while taking a road trip you would have to either pull over check a map, or ask someone for directions. But twenty year later all of those things are fused into one thing that can fit in the palm of your hand. With an electronic device like this, that could do all this and more. Which leads many to questions, are they save to use while driving? It all started with soldiers using held-hand transmitters in World War II (A History of Cell Phones - Lbs Zone.).Then there was the "car phones,  that were so big and difficult to carry around on your person(Ai InSite). By 1983, the Motorola DynATAC 8000X came out to the world and was view as the first cell phone by Motorola(The History of Cell Phones). They cost over three thousand dollars, and you would have to change them for over ten hours just to talk to someone for thirty minutes (A History of Cell Phones - Lbs Zone.). But as time goes on the evolution of cell phones just sky rocket through the roof. By the ninety's the DynAC 800X has been out for about ten years. Opening the doors for other phones such as IBM Simon Phone and Nokia 5110 that gave us the beloved game Snake (A History of Cell Phones lbs Zone.). Now fast forward to today, it's very rare to see everyone not using a cell phone for their everyday life. But is having something that does so much safe to use while driving? In 2012, because of cell phones 3,328 people were killed and around 421,0

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