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Are we using smartphones more than we need to? - The darkside of our smartphones

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                  As a precious gift of 21st century's technology, smartphones fill a great part of our daily lives. Our routine is now linked with them. Ashamed to say but we are in their custody now. Every time I unlock my phone, the first thing that comes to my mind is " What brought me to unlock this phone ? " and mostly the answer is " nothing " . If the answer is " something " sometimes, than that "something"  is no other than checking messages, notifications, and statistics of my social medias. It's not that every time I unlock my phone there is no logical reason. I often use it to have important communications,  to Google out my doubt or to solve my curiosity about something but after sometime that ghost of my phone takes me under it's control. So here's a question " Why are we checking our smartphone ever now and then just to find nothing (rarely something) new? or Why we remain hooked up with our smart

Why celebrities followers rise suddenly after their death?

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Few weeks ago on 29 April 2020, Indian actor Irfan khan died. He had few lakhs of followers on Instagram but after his death, rise in number of his Instagram followers was significant. Same thing happened when another actor Sushant Singh Rajput died on 14 June 2020. He had about nine and a half million followers on Instagram but about a million followers increased in less than 6 hours of his death. After these incidents, many people posted before-after followers comparison on social media questioning why this happens almost every time? So here is the answer of this question from the point of view of a social media analyst. First of all, how someone's followers or subscribers rise? Of course, When he/she trends or his/her content (posts/videos/writings) trends. Now, in the case of death of a big actor or actress, the news of his/her death trends popularly in every platform. In most cases, death of any big & important person is disclosed to public through press conferences then t

Why isn't your smartphone fully charged at the time of unboxing? - Top 5 battery myths busted

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Every time you boot up a new smartphone, you may have noticed the battery percentage; It is not 100%. Why is it so? There are a lot of reasons behind it. First, Smartphones are mass produced. Fully charging the batteries of those phones  consumes a lot of time and power. This won't be economic for the company. So they charge the smartphones only upto a certain limit making sure the batteries don't die during shipping. This saves both time and power. Another reason is: Loss of power during shipping and storage.  Today's smartphones have lithium ion or lithium polymer batteries which losses charge with time. Most companies have their factories in China and world wide supply is done from there. After those smartphones leave factory, they are shipped throughout the world which takes few weeks to few months. You might never know how long your smartphone has been sitting on the retailers or warehouses before you buy them. This time is a lot for Li-ion or Li-poly batteries to lo