Smartphone

Smart phone (smartphone) is a cell phone that has a high rate capability, sometimes with computer-like functions. There is not factory standard, defining a smart phone. For some people, the smart phone is a phone that works using the entire operating system software that provides standard and basic relationships for application developers. For others, the smart phone is a phone that provides advanced features such as e-mail (electronic mail), internet and the ability to read electronic books (e-book) or there is a keyboard (either built-in or external) and the VGA connector. In other words, the smart phone is a mini computer that has the capability of a phone.Growth in demand for sophisticated tools are easy to carry anywhere making great advances in processor, memory, display and operating systems outside of mobile phone lines for several years.
The first smart phone named Simon; was designed by IBM in 1992 and exhibited as a concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.Smart phones are marketed to the public in 1993 and sold by BellSouth. Becomes not only a mobile phone, smart phone also has a calendar, phone book, world clock, note taker place, e-mail, the ability to send and receive faxes and games. Does not have a sophisticated phone buttons. But the users use the touch screen to select phone numbers with your fingers or make faxes and memos with a stick stylus. Text entered by the keyboard "prediction" is unique on the screen
. For today's standards, Simon is a product of a low level, but its features are very advanced at that time.Nokia Communicator is Nokia's first phone smart, starting with the Nokia 9000, in 1996.Similar smart phone with a unique hand-held computing is the result of the incorporation effort made by Hewlett Packard PDA model is successful and the expensive with the best-selling Nokia phone at the time. Nokia 9210 was the first communicator and sail color is also true that using the smart phone operating system. Be communicator Communicator 9500 camera and her first WiFi. 9300 Communicator has a change in the form of smaller and new E90 communicator includes GPS. Although the Nokia 9210 can be argued as the first true smartphone with an operating system, Nokia still refer to it as a communicator.Ericsson R380 formerly sold as a 'smart phone' but can not run third party applications.
In October 2001, issued Handspring Palm OS Treo smart phone, with a full keyboard combined with roaming wireless networking, e-mail, calendar, and the control list, a third-party applications that can be downloaded or synced with a computer.In 2002, RIM's first BlackBerry mengeluakan which is the first smart phone with wireless email use and optimal user has reached 8 million (to June 2007), three-quarters of users are in South America.Handspring presents the popular smart phone market by joining with the American Palm OS based Visor PDA with a GSM phone network, VisorPhone. By 2002, Handspring sells an integrated smart phone called the Treo; joined the company as PDA sales have started to die, but the Treo smart phones are fast becoming popular as a full-featured PDA phone. In the same year, Microsoft announced a Windows CE OS computer bag named the "Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002".In 2005 Nokia N-series publishes a 3G smart phone that is sold not as mobile phones but as multimedia computers.Android, OS for smart phones output in 2008. Android powered by Google, along with hardware businessmen and other leading software such as Intel, HTC, ARM, Motorola and eBay, which then formed the Open Handset Alliance.The first phone using Android OS is the HTC Dream, the brand keluran of T-Mobile as the G1. The phone features a full, full touch screen, QWERTY keyboard and track ball for navigating web pages. Software compatible with Google applications such as Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, Google's Chrome Lite as well. Third party applications are also available through the Android Market, there are free or a fee.In July 2008 Apple introduced the App Store with a free application and a fee. App store can deliver smart phone applications developed by third parties directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch with a WiFi or cellular network without using a computer to download. App Store has been a success for Apple, and in June 2009 there were over 50,000 applications available. App store through the one million download an application on 23 April 2009.Following the popularity of Apple's App Store, many of which make their own application stores. Palm, Microsoft and Nokia has announced an application store similar to Apple's. RIM also recently made the application store BlackBerry App World.