In recent times the popularity of smartphones has increased immensely. Smartphones are actually mobile phones that feature high-end functionalities. Using these high-end devices, you will not have to face any barriers pertaining to geographical distance. Like basic mobile phones, smartphones also enable you to stay connected with your friends, colleagues and family.
Smartphones are fully functional mobile phones that provide a host of advanced features like email, text messaging and internet access etc. right from your device. A personal organiser, web access and voice recognition are other important features that almost all smartphones offer. With all these features incorporated into a smartphone, you will no longer need to carry your heavy laptop with you anymore.
Similar to computers, smartphones also work on an operating system specially designed and developed for mobile phones. Some popular mobile phone OS include:
• Palm OS
• RIM’s Blackberry OS
• Symbian OS
• Apple’s iPhone OS
• Google’s Android OS
• Windows Mobile OS
Fully fledged email support and internet access are some of the most important features of smartphones. Almost all smartphones today boast a high resolution camera, a massive touchscreen display, personal organiser and email capabilities etc. Smartphones also offer basic PDA functionalities and features like a to-do list, phonebook and calendar.
Additionally, smartphones are also capable of offering a range of business document formats like MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PDF files. Smartphones also feature connectivity options such as 3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS and EDGE which enables users to surf the internet at broadband-like speeds.