Call Kimberly Brown a smartphone junkie if you want.
“I’m sure everyone around me will say I’m most definitely addicted,” said Brown, an archaeologist at The Gibraltar Museum in Gibraltar, and self-described gadget freak. “I feel I use it to its full potential — as music player, as camera, for texts, for e-mails, for surfing … apps, games.”
But there’s one way Brown says she never uses her phone: As a phone.
“There are so many ways of keeping in constant touch with people that voice calls are almost too invasive now,” she said, adding she can’t remember the last time she used her iPhone 4 to make a voice call.
Experts say phone users like Brown are part of a growing trend. As more people have grown adept at text-based messaging, and more own smartphones that can send messages via text, e-mail, Facebook or Twitter, voice chatting is becoming something of an afterthought.
This cultural shift has taken on new relevance in the wake of Tuesday’s World Health Organization’s finding that radiation from mobile phones can possibly increase the risk of cancer. Scientists have focused on the potential risk of brain cancer when phones are held against the user’s ear.
Via: Cnn.com
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