SMARTPHONE

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone] that combines the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile phone. The term Smartphone is usually used to describe phones with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. While some feature phones also may be thought of as handheld computers integrated with mobile telephones, a feature phone is typically based on proprietary firmware, while a Smartphone runs a more open and complete mobile operating system. Widespread examples of OS are Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, Nokia's Symbian, RIM's BlackBerry OS, and embedded Linux distributions such as Maemo and MeeGo.

HISTORY

IBM Simon (introduced 1992) in charging station

The first smartphone was the IBM Simon; it was designed in 1992. Besides being a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail client, the ability to send and receive faxes, and games. It had no physical buttons, instead customers used a touchscreen to select telephone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with a unique on-screen "predictive" keyboard. The Nokia Communicator line was the first of Nokia's smartphones . In 1997 the term 'smartphone' was used for the first time when Ericsson unveiled the concept phone GS88, the first device labeled as 'smartphone'. VARIOUS OPERATING SYSTEMS SYMBIAN

Nokia 9210 Communicator (Symbian phone introduced 2000).

In 2000, the touch screen Ericsson R380 Smartphone was released. It was the first device to use an open operating system, the Symbian OS. It was the first device marketed as a 'Smartphone'. It combined the functions of a mobile phone and a personal digital assistant (PDA). In December 1999 the magazine Popular Science appointed the Ericsson R380 Smartphone to one of the most important advances in science and technology. It was a groundbreaking device since it was as small and light as a normal mobile phone. In 2007 Nokia launched the Nokia N95 which integrated a wide range of multimedia features into a consumer-oriented smartphone: GPS, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity and TV-out. In the next few years these features would become standard on high-end smartphones.

In 2010 Nokia released the Nokia N8 smartphone with a stylus-free capacitive touchscreen, the first device to use the new Symbian 3 OS.It featured a camera that Mobile Burn described as the best camera in a phone, and satellite navigation that Mobile Choice described as the best on any phone. Palm, Windows, and BlackBerry

Modified Hewlett-Packard iPAQ 2210,

In the late 1990's the vast majority of mobile phones had only basic phone features and many people who needed functionality beyond that also carried PDA and/or pager type devices running early versions of operating systems such as Palm OS, Blackberry OS or Windows CE/Pocket PC.In 2002 RIM released their first BlackBerry devices with integrated phone functionality and shifted the positioning of their products from 2-way pagers to email-capable mobile phones. iPhone

The original iPhone (released in June 2007)

In 2007, Apple Inc. introduced its first iPhone. It was one of the first mobile phones to be mainly controlled through a touchscreen without a stylus, keyboard, or keypad, the others being the LG Prada and the HTC Touch , though the iPhone was the first mobile phone to use a multi-touch interface. The iPhone featured a web browser that Ars Technica then described as "far superior" to anything offered by that of its competitors. In July 2008, Apple introduced its second generation iPhone with a lower list price starting at $199 and 3G support. Released with it, Apple also created the App Store, adding the capability for the iPhone and iPod Touch to officially install and execute additional native applications (both free and paid). The App Store has been a huge success for Apple going from over 500 applications at launch to 65,000 applications and over 1.5 billion downloads in the first year. ANDROID

The first Android phone HTC Dream

The Android operating system for smartphones was released in 2008. Android is an open-source platform backed by Google, along with major hardware and software developers (such as Intel, HTC, ARM, Motorola and Samsung, to name a few), that form the Open Handset Alliance. The first phone to use Android was the HTC Dream, branded for distribution by T-Mobile as the G1. The software suite included on the phone consists of integration with Google's proprietary applications, such as Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, and a full HTML web browser. Android supports the execution of native applications and a preemptive multitasking capability (in the form of services).

In the same month, the HTC EVO 3D was announced by HTC Corporation, which can produce 3D effects with no need for special glasses (auto stereoscopy). Others The Bada operating system for smartphones was announced by Samsung on 10 November 2009. The first Bada-based phone was the Samsung Wave S8500, which sold one million handsets in its first 4 weeks on the market.

SCREENS

Today, almost all smartphones have high-resolution touch screens Screens on smartphones vary largely in both display size and display resolution. Screen sizes range from 2 inches to 5 inches (measured diagonally), while resolutions vary from 240 320 to 640 960; a common resolution for smartphones is 480 800.

APPLICATION STORES The introduction of Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch popularized manufacturer-hosted online distribution for third-party applications focused on a single platform. The iPhone's platform is officially restricted to installing apps only through Apple's App Store. Following the success of Apple's App Store other smartphone manufacturers quickly launched application stores of their own. Google launched the Android Market; RIM launched its app store, BlackBerry App World, in April 2009. Nokia launched its Ovi Store in May 2009. Palm launched its Palm App

Catalog for web OS in June 2009. Microsoft launched an application store for Windows Mobile called Windows Marketplace for Mobile , and then a separate Windows Phone Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 in October 2010. Samsung launched Samsung Apps for its bada based phones in June 2010. OPERATING SYSTEM MARKET SHARES

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION BY MANUFACTURER According to global marketing information services firm J.D. Power and Associates smartphones from Apple Inc. have been consistently ranking highest in customer satisfaction, , Apple was followed in ranking by HTC , Samsung , Motorola , RIM , LG , Palm , and Nokia .