These devices allow consumers to make calls, text, access their emails and use social networking sites and the internet on the move. They can also be used to take, store and share pictures and videos and to download music and video clips. Office workers have long dubbed such phones ‘crackberries’, after the BlackBerry smartphone, because of the addictive pull of checking emails at all hours.

这些新型科技让消费者能够轻松沟通：打电话、发短信、看电邮、社交网络、微博发信息，手机变成了一个比“枕边人”还亲密的甜蜜伴侣，更别提如今红得发热的iphone手机，广大的苹果控们越狱的越狱，打上愤怒的小鸟就脱不了的手，下不完的音乐等等。有意思的是，有些人把黑莓机称为“快克莓”（因为用起来容易上瘾），加拿大公民暨移民部开始设法切断这种束缚，力求重建工作与生活间的适当平衡。

James Thickett, Ofcom director of market research, said the phones were ‘changing social etiquette’. He said: ‘Technology is now driving our values. ‘It is not just children answering the phone in theatres or libraries. It is adults as well. ‘People are looking at smartphones as something that provides for their every technological need. They are blurring the boundaries between work and home.’

市场调研员James Thickett称手机改变了社会传统礼节，他说：“科技改变了我们的价值观，传统的价值观遭到前所未有的颠覆，比如说，在图书馆接电话不再是可耻的。智能手机模糊了家庭与工作的界限，这是一个可怕的趋势，要引起重视才可以。”

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