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| SmartPhones |
Smartphone
A smartphone is a full-featured mobile phone with personal computer like
functionality. Most smartphones are cellphones that support full featured email
capabilities with the functionality of a complete personal organizer. An important
feature of most smartphones is that applications for enhanced data processing and
connectivity can be installed on the device, in contrast to regular phones which
support sandboxed applications. These applications may be developed by the
manufacturer of the device, by the operator or by any other third-party software
developer.
"Smart" functionality includes any additional interface including a miniature
QWERTY keyboard, a touch screen, a D-pad, or even just secure access to
company mail, such as is provided by a BlackBerry.
Smartphones can be noted by several features which include, but are not limited to,
touchscreen, operating system, and tethered modem capabilities on top of the
default phone characteristics. Full-fledged email support seems to be a characteristic
key defining feature found in all existing and announced smartphones as of 2007.
Most smartphones also allow the user to install extra software, even from third party
sources, but some phones vendors like to refer to their phones as "smartphones"
even without this feature.
Smartphone features tend to include Internet access, e-mail access, scheduling
software, built-in camera, contact management, accelerometers and some
navigation software as well as occasionally the ability to read business documents in
a variety of formats such as PDF and Microsoft Office.
History
The first smartphone was called Simon designed by IBM in 1992 and shown as a
concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer industry trade show held in Las
Vegas, Nevada. It was released to the public in 1993 and sold by BellSouth. Besides
being a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, address book, world clock,
calculator, note pad, e-mail, send and receive FAX, and games. It had no physical
buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touch-screen to select phone numbers
with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was
entered with a unique on-screen "predictive" keyboard. By today's standards, the
Simon would be a fairly low-end smartphone.
The Nokia 9000, released in 1996, was marketed as a Communicator, but was
arguably the first in a line of smartphones. The Ericsson R380 was sold as a
'smartphone' but could not run native 3rd party applications. Although the Nokia
9210 was arguably the first true smartphone with an open operating system,
Nokia continued to refer to it as a Communicator.
Although the Nokia 7650, announced in 2001, was referred to as a 'smart phone'
in the media, and is now called a 'smartphone' on the Nokia support site, the press
release referred to it as an 'imaging phone'. The term gained further credence in
2002 when Microsoft announced its mobile phone OS would thenceforth be known as
"Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002".
Out of 1 billion camera phones to be shipped in 2008, smartphones, the higher
end of the market with full email support, will represent about 10% of the market or
about 100 million units.
Attributes and Credits
The information and facts supplied on this subject
derive from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
A smartphone is a full-featured mobile phone with personal computer like
functionality. Most smartphones are cellphones that support full featured email
capabilities with the functionality of a complete personal organizer. An important
feature of most smartphones is that applications for enhanced data processing and
connectivity can be installed on the device, in contrast to regular phones which
support sandboxed applications. These applications may be developed by the
manufacturer of the device, by the operator or by any other third-party software
developer.
"Smart" functionality includes any additional interface including a miniature
QWERTY keyboard, a touch screen, a D-pad, or even just secure access to
company mail, such as is provided by a BlackBerry.
Smartphones can be noted by several features which include, but are not limited to,
touchscreen, operating system, and tethered modem capabilities on top of the
default phone characteristics. Full-fledged email support seems to be a characteristic
key defining feature found in all existing and announced smartphones as of 2007.
Most smartphones also allow the user to install extra software, even from third party
sources, but some phones vendors like to refer to their phones as "smartphones"
even without this feature.
Smartphone features tend to include Internet access, e-mail access, scheduling
software, built-in camera, contact management, accelerometers and some
navigation software as well as occasionally the ability to read business documents in
a variety of formats such as PDF and Microsoft Office.
History
The first smartphone was called Simon designed by IBM in 1992 and shown as a
concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer industry trade show held in Las
Vegas, Nevada. It was released to the public in 1993 and sold by BellSouth. Besides
being a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, address book, world clock,
calculator, note pad, e-mail, send and receive FAX, and games. It had no physical
buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touch-screen to select phone numbers
with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was
entered with a unique on-screen "predictive" keyboard. By today's standards, the
Simon would be a fairly low-end smartphone.
The Nokia 9000, released in 1996, was marketed as a Communicator, but was
arguably the first in a line of smartphones. The Ericsson R380 was sold as a
'smartphone' but could not run native 3rd party applications. Although the Nokia
9210 was arguably the first true smartphone with an open operating system,
Nokia continued to refer to it as a Communicator.
Although the Nokia 7650, announced in 2001, was referred to as a 'smart phone'
in the media, and is now called a 'smartphone' on the Nokia support site, the press
release referred to it as an 'imaging phone'. The term gained further credence in
2002 when Microsoft announced its mobile phone OS would thenceforth be known as
"Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002".
Out of 1 billion camera phones to be shipped in 2008, smartphones, the higher
end of the market with full email support, will represent about 10% of the market or
about 100 million units.
Attributes and Credits
The information and facts supplied on this subject
derive from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page