Commuters use their smartphones in the Times Square station.

Be Smarter With Your Smartphone

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 17, 2014

The smartphone industry has seen a rise in its impact in a variety of avenues including their interaction with socioeconomic issues. Elizabeth Woyke, a reporter who has covered the telecom and mobile industry since 2007 and the author of The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry (New Press, 2014 ), discusses the influence of the smartphone era.

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