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1.      What Is a Smartphone?

A smartphone is a mixture of classic PDA and mobile telephone. A mobile phone is a communication device which is connected to a wireless communication network via radio waves. Most mobile phones supply voice communications, SMS and MMS services. A PDA (Private Digital Assistant) on the other hand, is a handheld device that gives services like computing and world-wide-web features. Traditionally PDAs were not providing phone or fax services.In the beginning, mobile phones had been utilized primarily for producing calls and PDAs used as personal, portable organizers.

Smartphones enable users to store facts, e-mail, and install programs and creating calls all in a single device. A smartphone's characteristics are commonly a great deal more oriented towards mobile telephone solutions than the PDA-like capabilities. There is no sector common defining a smartphone.

2.     History of smartphone

The initially smartphone called Simon was designed by IBM in 1992 and it contained a calendar, address book, globe clock, calculator, e mail and games, which was regarded innovative during that period. The Nokia communicator, and are some of the well known smartphones introduced in the course of the final two decades. Android, a cross platform and well-liked Open Source for smartphones, backed by Google was released in 2008.

three.     Attributes of a smartphone

Operating method: A smartphone will be based on an operating program that enables it to run many applications. A smartphone operating system enables the owners to use a number of applications at the identical time. A user can check the phonebook in his smartphone though taking a call. Similarly he can make a call when watching a video with no interrupting the media player application. Moreover, smartphones can be synchronized with other devices like a individual pc or laptop. Some of the common operating systems are Android, iOS, Windows Telephone 7, Symbian S60, Meego, Blackberry OS 6. and Bada.