subject: Smartphones: Gadgets With Multifarious Features [print this page] We all are aware of the fact that mobile phones are growing both in number and designs. The Smartphones are actually the next generation, multifunctional mobile phones providing voice communication as well as text-messaging capabilities, facilitating data processing and enhanced wireless connectivity.
The smartphones account for only a small part of the worldwide mobile phone market but many consumers are opting for them as the price continues to drop. Smartphones offer the functionalities of a music player as well as a digital camera.
Unlike most conventional mobile phones, a smart phone is blessed with innovative features like a color LCD screen with backlight, enhanced wireless capability such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and infrared and the ability to synchronize with computers, a large memory (RAM and ROM) and persistent storage (memory cards), an advanced operating system with a set of applications that usually include scheduler, games and calendar, address book, media player, book reader, recorder, note, and calculator functions. Many of them have a camera.
The hardware components of a smartphone include a mainboard, ROM, RAM, an antenna, a battery, additional storage like flash memory. Smart phone screen displays are mainly made for facilitating various applications, including email, web surfing and audio and video playback. More than 32 million mobile phones and smartphones by Nokia, Samsung, and Motorola are powered by Symbian OS. A number of smartphones like HP iPaQ Pocket PC phones and some Motorola smart phone use Windows Mobile.
Thanks to the rapid development of wireless technologies, a whole new set of mobile wireless services and applications are set to empower people by providing communication and computing anywhere and at anytime. Additionally, smart phones, the next-generation multifunctional, multiwireless mobile phone will likely be the mechanisms that deliver these services and applications.
