Smart Mobile Phone

BY Amen Adnan

www.uotechnology.edu.iq/ictc

History of mobile phone

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History

The first cell phone, on the other hand, wasdemonstrated 19 years before the first smart phone. Motorola employee Dr. Martin Cooper on April 3, 1973 called researcher Dr. Joel S. Engel of AT&T’s Bell Labs using a prototype from Motorola called the Dyna TAC.

IBM designed the first smart phone in 1992. It was called Simon. The smart phone was presented that year as a concept device in Las Vegas at the computer industry trade show known as COMDEX.

History of mobile phone

Smart phone : An electronic telecommunications device , often referred to as a cellular phone or cell phone. Mobile phones connect to a wireless communications network through radio wave or satellite transmissions. Most mobile phones provide voice communications, Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Message Service (MMS),  and newer phones may also provide Internet services such as Web browsing and e-mail .

What is Smart phone ?

You might not know the exact definition of a Smartphone, but you sure know a SmartPhone when you see it. Apple iPhone, RIM Blackberry, HTC, Samsung Galaxy, Sony Ericsson Xperia are some of the high end SmartPhones being used today worldwide. A Smartphone is a mobile device that provides Cellular features along with Internet access capabilities. Additionally they come with media players, high resolution cameras, touch screens, GPS navigators, Wi-fi and several other user applications. SmartPhones have powerful computing abilities similar to that of a personal computer.

What is Smart phone ?

There is a break neck speed of consumers adopting smart phones, faster than any hi tech gadget in the history. As smart phones are proliferating, the smart phone users are cutting the cord of computers. Currently 63% of the web traffic is generated by computers, which soon will decline to 46% by 2015 according to a report by Cisco. There are now fewer and fewer things that make laptop better than the smart phones. 

What is Smart phone ?

A smart phone combines the functioning of a PDA and a mobile phone. To understand more about smart phone we need a bit more detailing about the PDA - a Personal Digital Assistant also known as palmtop computer, is a device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDA’s have the ability to connect to the internet or can access intranet and extranet via WiFi or wireless wide area network. Younger generation below 30 with low incomes found smart phones as suitable replacements for buying expensive computers and paying DSL or cable modem bills every month. In a manner of saying, Smart phones integrate the functions of a Cell phone and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or a Handheld PC.

What is Smart phone ?

Smart Phone v/s Contemporary feature phones A smart phone is the term used to define a more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone, although there is no specific definition to distinguish between the two. Certain feature phones also integrate the capabilities of handheld PCs with GSM based mobile phones but they are different from Smart Phones. While a feature phone runs on a proprietary firmware, a smart phone has a complete Operating System (commonly known as Mobile OS). Google Android , Nokia Symbian, Blackberry OS, iPhone OS, Windows Phone are the most popular mobile operating systems being used today.  

smart Phone v/s Contemporary feature phones

Cellphone vs SmartphoneCellphones have been around for some time. At first, its only function was to provide people with a means to call and be called anytime without being connected to any line. It eventually evolved and added more features like text messaging. Before the advent of the smartphone, people were often carrying two devices, a cellphone and a Personal Digital Assistant or PDA. The PDA is a digital organizer where users can get a calendar where they can input tasks and appointments and a contact list among other things. The smartphone combined these two devices into one.

smart Phone v/s Contemporary feature phones

Getting a proper comparison between these two is not that easy as there is no clear line between a smartphone and an ordinary cellphone with extra features. But as we see today, smartphones have more things in common to computers rather than cellphones. A compact or full keyboard often comes as standard in smatphones as it is necessary for quickly typing messages and emails. Smartphones utilize an operating system that is identifiable and is often used on other phones. It provides a stable platform where users can install third party applications.These applications extend the capability of the phone and can often be bought from online stores provided by the OS maker. Smartphones are also expected to have a mail client that can connect to a mail server and extract messages.

The introduction of the iPhone has spurred the production of cellphones that imitate some smartphone features without totally being one. This includes touch screen cellphones and messaging phones with full screen QWERTY keyboards. This has blurred the line between the two even further. As the technology develops more in the future, there would be no reason why cellphones would not have the same functionality as smartphones. At this point in time all phones would be smartphones.Summary:1. Smartphones have more advanced capabilities compared to cellphones2. A smartphone is both a PDA and a cellphone3. Today’s smartphones have more in common with computers than cellphones4. Smartphones usually have a touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard while cellphones come with a regular small screen and a number pad5. A smartphone uses an operating system that allows third party applications to run on it

Features of Smart Phone 

1.    Operating System: Smart phones have an operating system to create an interaction between phone’s hardware and applications. Actually it’s the OS that makes a cell phone Smart Phone. They make a phone much similar to a computer. A variety of mobile OSs are available in the market, namely, Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, RIM Blackberry, Apple iOS etc.

Features of Smart Phone

2.   Software: Though most basic cell phones have some softwares to execute smaller functions like alarm clock, contact manager, etc., smart phones have much powerful and useful softwares installed. They can facilitate you to edit an image, create a Microsoft document, and provide you with the driving direction through GPS and a lot of similar things.3. Messaging: Smart Phones can let you send and receive e-mails through your e-mail accounts and you can also use messaging services like Yahoo Messenger, GTalk etc.4. Web Access: Smart Phones has enriched the browsing experience on the mobile by high speed internet connectivity. They also support markup languages like HTML, XHTML, CSS etc and protocols like HTTP, WAP.

Features of Smart Phone

5-  QWERTY Keyboard: Most of the smart phones have a QWERTY keyboard similar to a computer keyboard. It for sure makes easy to write texts and documents than traditional feature phones.6.  Touch Screen: Most of smart phones have touch screen for entering data. It makes everything just a thumb touch away. 

Features of Smart Phone

Security Issues with Smart Phones

Smart phones work as interoperable between cellular networks and the Internet, so it might provide dangerous threats from the Internet to the telecom infrastructure.Mobile software, like the Apple iPhone’s Safari browser have already turned up numerous security holes that require patching. No vendor has yet provided a way to push updates to their smart phones directly. This could be a security issue to allow remote code to flash firmware. Smartphone ISPs (GPRS or CDMA) should restrict Internet access unless devices are fully patched. Smartphone Viruses has started evolving.

Security Issues with Smart Phones

In 2006 Red browser, a Java Midlet sends SMS messages to a pay number while pretending to give free Internet over SMS.

 AdvantagesMultifunctional because it is used as a phone and a personal computer.Fast mode of communication as you can communicate with anyone within few seconds of time. You can also share data or documents with anybody. Gaming at speeds never witnessed before on phonesEasier to keep in touch with anybody at any moment since a single device is capable of communicating over voice and e-mail, video conferencing and browsing over the cyberspace.

Disadvantages Screen size is small - It is tedious to access websites and email from small screens. You need to be scrolling extensively to view the information clearly. Uncomfortable keyboard size - Compared to the keyboard of a computer, the alphanumeric keys are closely spaced to each other. Smart phones have qwerty keyboards which resemble the keyboard of a computer. It is not easy to type fast just like typing on the keyboard of a computer. Since most have touch keyboards, you tend to type the nearby words than the desired ones thus increasing the frustration levels. High cost - Users are made to sign a contract by the cell phone providers. Access to internet is provided at an additional cost and depends on the type of contract.

Disadvantages of Smart Phones

Website Access - Software is used by Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) to access websites for a smart phone. Some websites that are WAP enabled may not be accessible. Work-life Balance - Being small in size and portable makes it difficult for people to draw a margin between work life and home life.  Ever since Apple has launched its first iPhone in 2007, Apple has made market-settings strides in hardware, software and channel development to grab mindshare and market share. Demand has been so strong that even models that have been out for two three years are still being sought. Without release of a new phone Apple overtook Nokia and new force Samsung to be the top smart phone seller in the second quarter. The market is eagerly waiting for the launch of iPhone5 with an upgraded version of camera (10 mega pixel from 5 mega pixel in iPhone4), an iOS 5, the platform for iPhone5 with A5 processor which is already in iPad2. Although the delay has been disappointing, Apple has posted record revenue and record net profit during the last quarter.

Disadvantages of Smart Phones

Website Access - Software is used by Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) to access websites for a smart phone. Some websites that are WAP enabled may not be accessible. Work-life Balance - Being small in size and portable makes it difficult for people to draw a margin between work life and home life.  Ever since Apple has launched its first iPhone in 2007, Apple has made market-settings strides in hardware, software and channel development to grab mindshare and market share. Demand has been so strong that even models that have been out for two three years are still being sought. Without release of a new phone Apple overtook Nokia and new force Samsung to be the top smart phone seller in the second quarter. The market is eagerly waiting for the launch of iPhone5 with an upgraded version of camera (10 mega pixel from 5 mega pixel in iPhone4), an iOS 5, the platform for iPhone5 with A5 processor which is already in iPad2. Although the delay has been disappointing, Apple has posted record revenue and record net profit during the last quarter.

Its nearest rival, Samsung jumped from having 5.6% share to 16.2% market share in the second quarter of this year. Its success can be attributed to the global popularity of its flagship Galaxy S Smart phones with the best seller being the Galaxy S II, five million sold in 85 days of its release. Assuming an optimistic trend, Samsung within 12 months will likely sell 20 million units of the Android-based Galaxy SII, which is still a fourth to the 69.3 million units of the iPhone (most of the iPhone 4) delivered by Apple for the 12 months ended June 25, 2011. As for other rivals, Research in Motion, the creator of the BlackBerry, has lost market share, and Nokia is still in production mode for a new smart phone line. 

Disadvantages of Smart Phones