“Smartphones” as they are called have truly turned the world upside-down with its advanced PC-like features.
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Author: Rovina Jacob
“Smartphones” as they are called have truly turned the world upside-down with its advanced PC-like features. The recent trend shows that consumers in emerging markets are twice as likely as those in developed markets to acquire and use consumer technology in the next year and are more willing to pay a premium for environmentally friendly consumer electronics products.
IBM designed the first smartphone, christened as Simon, in 1992. Later, mobile devise makers such as Nokia, Ericsson, RIM, Handspring, HTC and Apple joined this league.
The smartphones come with Operating Systems, including BlackBerry OS, Symbian OS, Palm WebOS, iPhone OS, Samsung bada, Windows Mobile, Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, Android and Maemo. Smartphone manufacturers are adopting more powerful hardware capable of handling video processing and advanced graphics, with the transition from to ARM Cortex A8 and Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets from ARM11-based processors, which is currently under way. There are already a large number of handsets based on this architecture and on Qualcomm’s competing Snapdragon platform even though devices based on ARM Cortex A8 chipsets have been available since mid-2009.
A number of handsets launched in the last 12 months had an app store at the launch. The application stores are now a “default” feature and this adversely affects the strong growth in pre-installed application stores.
Currently, the Apple iPhone 3GS, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Storm, Motorola Cliq, Samsung Moment, Blackberry Tour 9630 and HTC Droid are the most highly rated smartphones.
The most common features that make them highly usable include touchscreen, candy bar, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, internet browsing, digital player, 3.0-5.0 MP camera clarity etc. With the rise in price wars between mobile phone makers as well as operators, smartphones have become affordable for both business users and messaging fanatics.
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Useful information . To comment on the overall style and tone, it looks like a report that simply states facts. Does not make an impact on the reader.
Smart phones have made life so much easier. It’s hard to imagine that just over a decade ago there were not many PC owners in India.