Cellphones

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They are everywhere and their various ring tones can be heard ringing out from the bleachers of a little league game to the pin drop silence of a board meeting. What are these seemingly mobile music boxes you ask? Cellular telephones! Once only for the social elite the cell telephone has now become a common commodity. This little essentiality mobile personal communication device has transformed the face of society. No longer confined to the length of a cord, telephones are now able to go just about everywhere.
With ever improving technological advancements in microchip hardware the big bulky telephones of old are being traded in for sleek compact telephones what can fit in the palm of a child’s hand. The pressure to have the newest, smallest, and sleekest cell phone is on. How cellular telephones work is really very simple, they use low-energy FM radio waves to transmit voice to the nearest antenna site connected with the local telephone network. The call goes through either a regular telephone line, or by radio signal to another cell telephone, depending on the service. Wireless technology uses individual radio frequencies over and over by dividing service areas into different geographic zones. These zones are called "cells." Cells can be as small as Madison Square Garden or as large as New York City. Typically, there are more cells in cities than in rural areas simply because there are more people trying to make calls in urban areas. Sounds complex doesn’t it?



Cell phones while convenient and easy can sometimes get you into trouble. I recall driving home from school one day and I was chatting on the phone with my boyfriend, lost in conversation I noticed upon the sound of another drivers horn, that I was in the middle of an intersection and the light for me to go went from green to red. I couldn’t believe how distracted I’d become. Another instance was when I drove about five miles past...