What is a Smartphone?

By now we have all heard the term Smartphone, basically a smartphone is a very high end cell phone. These phones use the standard telephone technology and combined with a personal digital assistant or PDA. These phones are used as portable media players, digital cameras, camcorders and computers. With technology becoming more and more advanced everyday, there are hundreds of different smartphone out there with more on the way. Apple just released their iPhone 4S; they sold one million in one day and 4 million in one week. Consumers are obsessed with these phones and they are always on the lookout for the next best thing.

Smartphones are run by using Operating Systems just like a computer does, some of the more popular operating systems or OS are the Android, iOs, Windows, Symbian and Blackberry OS. The very first smartphone was called the Simon and it was designed for IBM back in 1992 and released in Las Vegas in 1993. The first of these smartphones contained a phone, calendar, world clock, note pad and the ability to email. These days there are 4x more features on these phones. Every time you think that these phones cannot get better they do.

The Android OS was released in 2008 and it is considered an open source platform that was supported by Google, the HTC Dream was the very first cell phone to use the Android OS. The features it included were Maps, Calendar, Gmail and a fully functioning HTML web browser. The extremely popular smartphone is the iPhone from Apple. It was first introduced to the world in 2007 and it priced at a high $ 499 but as expensive as that may have sounded they were flying off the shelves. The iPhone was the first phone to have a large touchscreen that was designed for direct finger input.

Today, the iPhone 4s which was released on October 4, 2011, this phone has a dual core A5 processor with an 8 megapixel camera. This camera has the capability of recording 1080p video at a fast speed of 30 frames per second. No other smartphone can do that. Of course with every great idea there is going to be competition among the makers of the phones. Companies started suing other companies. In 2009, Nokia uses Apple for 10 patents, Apple countersues Nokia with 13 patents and the most recent in 2010 Apple sues HTC over 10 patents and files an ITC complaint against HTC with 10 other patents. These suits can drag on for years.

But with all of the lawsuits that are happening, the technology doesn't stop evolving. Smartphones are being released at a faster rate than ever before, sure these phone have everything you could want and more but they are on the expensive side but if you have the money and you have the desire for the bigger and the better then these smartphone are for you. It may not be long after this writing that another smartphone will be released.

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