Smartphone

A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone. Smartphones and feature phones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone, but while most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME, a smartphone allows the user to install and run more advanced applications based on a specific platform. Smartphones run complete operating system software providing a platform for application developers. A smartphone can be considered as a Personal Pocket Computer (PPC) with mobile phone functions, because these devices are mainly computers, although much smaller than a desktop computer (DC). Additionally a PPC (Personal Pocket Computer) is more personal than a DC (desktop computer).

Some facts about smartphone:

• The first smartphone was called Simon; it was designed by IBM in 1992.
• The Nokia Communicator line was the first of Nokia's smartphones starting with the Nokia 9000, released in 1996.
• In 1997 Ericsson released the concept phone GS88, the first device labelled as 'smartphone'