SMARTPHONE

A smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with PC-like functionality (PC-mobile convergence handset). There is no industry standard definition of the smartphone. For some, a smartphone is a mobile software that runs complete operating system provides a standard interface and platform for application developers. For others, the smartphone just a phone with advanced features such as e-mail, Internet and e-book reader capability, and / or built-in full keyboard or an external USB keyboard and VGA connectors. In other words, it is a miniature computer with phone capabilities.
The growth in demand for sophisticated mobile devices boasting powerful processor, abundant memory, larger screen and open operating systems has outpaced the rest of the phone market for several years.
The first smartphone was called Simon; was designed by IBM in 1992 and shown as a concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer industry trade show held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Was released to the public in 1993 and sold by BellSouth. Besides mobile phones, it also contains a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, notepad, e-mail, send and receive faxes, and games. There are no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touch screen to select a phone number with a finger or make a Facsimile and memos with an optional stylus. Text is entered with a unique on-screen "predictive" keyboard. According to today's standards, Simon will be low enough final product, but with the feature set at that time was very advanced.
Nokia Communicator line was the first of the Nokia smartphones starting with the Nokia 9000, released in 1996. This distinctive style smartphone Palmtop computers are the result of a collaborative effort of the early success and an expensive PDA model by Hewlett Packard combined with Nokia's bestselling phone around that time and early prototype models have two devices remain through a hinge; Nokia 9210 as the first color screen Communicator model is the first true smartphone with an open operating system; in the 9500 Communicator Nokia is also the first cameraphone Communicator and Nokia's first WiFi phone; the 9300 Communicator is a third dimension to switch to a smaller form factor, and the latest E90 Communicator includes GPS. Nokia Communicator models extraordinary has become the most expensive phone model sold by major brands for nearly full of old model series, easily 20% and sometimes 40% more expensive than the next most expensive smartphone by large producers.
Ericsson R380 was sold as a 'smartphone' but could not run native third party applications. Although the Nokia 9210 can be said that the first smartphone with an open operating system, Nokia continued to call it a Communicator.
In October 2001 launched the Handspring Treo Palm OS smartphone, using a full keyboard combined wireless web browsing, email, calendar and contacts organizer, with a third-party mobile applications can be downloaded or synchronized with a computer.
In 2002 RIM released the first BlackBerry that is the first smartphone optimized for wireless email use and has reached total subscribers from 8 million subscribers in June 2007, where three-quarters are in North America.
Although the Nokia 7650, announced in 2001, the so-called 'smart phone' in the media, and is now called 'smartphone' on the Nokia support site, the press referred to as 'imaging phone'. Handspring delivered widely popular smartphone devices in the U.S. market by marrying the Palm OS based Visor PDA together with a piggybacked GSM phone module, VisorPhone. In 2002, Handspring is called integrated marketing Treo smartphones; company later merged with the Palm PDA, especially because the market was dying but the Treo smartphone is quickly becoming popular as a mobile phone with extended PDA organizer features. In the same year, Microsoft announced Windows CE Pocket PC OS will be offered as "Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002". Microsoft originally defined with Windows Smartphone products as a lack of touchscreen and offers a screen resolution lower than the brother of Pocket PC devices. Palm then introduced several Windows Mobile smartphones in addition to the existing Palm OS smartphone, and now abandoned the platform that supports the new Palm WebOS.
In 2005 Nokia launched N-Series 3G smartphone that Nokia started to market the phone is not as but as a multimedia computer.
Out of 1 billion camera phones will be sent in the year 2008, smartphones, the higher end of the market with full email support, will represent approximately 10% of the market or about 100 million units.
The Smartphone Summit conference semi-annual detailed smartphone industry market data, trends, and updates the related smartphone hardware, software, and accessories.
Android, cross platform OS for smartphones was released in 2008. Android is an Open Source platform that is supported by Google, along with major hardware and software developers (such as Intel, HTC, ARM, Motorola and eBay, to name a few), which formed the Open Handset Alliance.
The first phone using the HTC Dream Android OS, branded for distribution by T-Mobile as the G1. Full phone features, capacitive touch screen, fold-out QWERTY keyboard, and a track ball for navigating web pages. Suite software included on the phone consists of the integration with Google's applications, like Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, and Google Chrome Lite full HTML web browser. Third-party applications available through the Android Market, including free and paid applications.