A Smartphone or a PC, what is more useful for a student?

By Melissa Burns

Nowadays it is difficult to see students with huge backpacks full of books. They were replaced by small smartphones, laptops and computers. Often when entering a college some freshmen may think what will be more useful for them? However, in our dynamic world all is fair in love and war.

The benefits of PC

Functionality of a smartphone

Smartphones are useful for their apps, but now there are a lot App for PC Hub’s available for our good old desktops. Imagine the situation: you are a student who lives miles from home because of a college, and with these apps you can easily download your messenger to a computer, and thus keep in touch with your family and friends fast and free.

Poly-tasking

Another huge advantage of a PC is that you can simultaneously operate several programs and apps, not to mention the fact that at the same time you can watch a movie in another browser window. In a way, thanks to a PC a student becomes a real Julius Caesar, who was famous for his ability to do several things at one time.

Space

The screen of a desktop computer or notebook provides greater visual capabilities, and it is less stressful for your eyes if you read a lot or watch videos. Also, a regular keyboard is still a winner when it comes to writing papers and reports.

The benefits of a smartphone

Compactness

Of course, one of the main advantages of a smartphone is its size. The smartphone is easy to carry, download apps, make calls, set reminders, make notes. Your smartphone is your particle, it is an alarm clock, and an Address Book, and a camera, and a mirror, and a phone, and a library, and a cinema, and the cook, etc…  You don’t have to organize a special room for it, or buy a table, it can live comfortably in your pocket.

Savings

Yes, even though to get a good smartphone you’ll have to fork out, still it is a great way to save money. Firstly, if you are a student from another country, you can save on calls to your family. Apps such as viber help to make free calls around the globe. Secondly, soon you won’t have to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on expensive educational publications, as the Google Play Books now allows to rent books for 180 days. It’s a bargain, since you do not have to buy the whole manual for the sake of one chapter.

Personal assistant

Another advantage of the smartphone is its ability to be always at hand: as a voice recorder at a lecture, as a music player in the gym, as a camera at a party. If you work on your report, it will always be there to record your thoughts.

Smartphones are definitely ahead, but some features they still are not capable of. So when you leave for college, you need to think well, why do you need a PC or smartphone, weigh all of the features and then make a decision.

Author’s bio

Melissa Burns graduated from the faculty of Journalism of Iowa State University in 2008. Nowadays she is an entrepreneur and independent journalist. Her sphere of interests includes startups, information technologies and how these ones may be implemented in the sphere of education. You may contact Melissa: burns.melissaa@gmail.com

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