Smartphone
Most of us are familiar now with cell phones. They € ™ ™ €'ve been around long enough and wea have wrestled with each new upgrade enough that no longer mystify and exasperate the average user. Then comes the smartphone. These go beyond what the typical cell phone can do and often act like computers. In fact, there is no definition of a smartphone. Some of execution complete operating system software and have a standardized interface and platform. In other cases, the smartphone simply has some capabilities that the standard cell phone doesn € ™ t have.
According to David Wood of Symbian, â € œSmart differ from normal telephones phones phones in two fundamental ways: how to build and what they can do.â € However, today most smartphones use a system operating identification, such as Windows and usually are able to accept applications, such as data processing software. Applications are often developed by smart phone manufacturer or can be made available by third party software developer with no connection to the manufacturer.
Most have email capability and a personal organizer. A miniature QWERTY keyboard can be added. Also, some have touch screens and cameras incorporated. Other possible additions are software contact management, hardware and browser software, PDF reading capability, music software, photos navigation and viewing video clips, Internet browsers, or secure access to company mail.
IBM developed the first smartphone in 1992 and named Simon. It was shown as a concept in computer industry trade show in Las Vegas that year. BellSouth sold to the public in 1993. In addition to the cell standard phone functions, was a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, notepad, e-mail, send and receive fax, and games. The screen touch phone was used in this new and innovative selection of phone numbers. Faxes and letters can be created with a pencil with a € â € œpredictiveâ keyboard. Today would be considered a low-end smartphone.
Nokia got into the smartphone revolution in 1996. His was a package with a PDA and was based on a model of PDA from Hewlett Packard and Nokiaâ € ™ s best-selling phone. The Nokia 9210 was the first color screen and was the first true smartphone with an open operating system. The Communicator 9500 Nokiaâ € ™ s first camera phone with Wi-Fi first. The latest E90 Communicator has GPS. Everyone these new Nokias are very expensive.
Research in Motion (RIM) began marketing the first BlackBerry in 2001. It was the first smartphone wireless optimized to use email. It has been very popular.
The first popular smartphones in the U.S. were sold by tumbling the Treo in 2002, which eventually was bought by Palm. Microsoft also announced its Windows CE Pocket PC that year, as Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002.
Nokiaâ € ™ s N-Series of 3G smartphones were sold in 2005, not including mobile phones, but as multimedia computers.
Smartphones, the higher end market with camera phones and full email support which represent approximately 10% of phone market camera in 2008. One billion camera phones will be sent this year.
About the Author
David Wood writes articles on HP iPAQ. For more information about TomTom Go 910, TomTom 510, HP 114 and PDA Cradle visit his site at totalpda
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