2Sense: smartPhones, The Millennial(New) Drug

Gone are the days when the coolest feature a phone ever had was a ringtone.
Remember those polyphonic ringtones that never went passed 1:30 minutes worth of play time?
Days when we had to spend more than R3 just to send a 4-paragraphed SMS or when image sharing was only done by MMS. Let's be honest, looking at all that, in hind-sight, those days used to suck.

But as time progressed, phones did too.
We started having phones with colour display, some whack VGA camera display on the rear end of it and slowly, data & file sharing was introduced. Infrared and it's humble beginnings.

Fast-forward to  years later....
How does your phone look like now? Definitely nothing like the once famous Nokia , right?
They like handheld computers now and they can do way more too.
And with new technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, video recording and many more being integrated with every new release, one can only wonder what the next phone will do and look like.
The advancement of cellphones needs to be applauded for numerous reason.

But that's not why i wrote this piece. 

Next time you go to the mall, just forget about you for a second (if you still can) and look around you, at how phones have changed our day-to-day lives as well as how we interact.
You'll probably come across so much shut that'll make you question what's still normal these days.
The things or devices that we once called cellphones have now become remote controls with screen display

We don't really use them to their full potential.

             By: | Nceba Thabethe |