It may seem like smart phones(smart phone batteries) are everywhere, but these hand-held computers are far from ubiquitous. Nielsen reports that, at the end of last year, only 31 percent of cell users had smart phones.

That means nearly 70 percent of those reading this aren’t likely to own one. But, I bet you’ve been considering it. Smart phones — which let you access the Internet via the Web and connection applications, or apps — are at the point now that personal computers were in the mid-1990s. They’re on their way to becoming the dominant online device.

But if you’ve never bought one, the process can be confusing. There are scores of models from four major U.S. carriers, all running different operating systems. Where do you begin?

Right here! I’ve put together some basic info and shopping tips for first-time smart phone buyers.

The handset

The most important handset buying tip I can give you also is the most basic: Actually use a phone before buying it, even if you’re familiar with the operating system you want to use. Don’t just buy it online, sight unseen. Spend time at a store working with the device, or ask a friend if you can spend some quality time with his or her phone.

Why is this important? Some smart phones have no physical keyboard, instead using a virtual one that appears on the touch screen. Others have physical keyboards that sit below the screen or slide out from beneath it. The keyboard will be how you interact most with the phone, so spend plenty of time testing it. Nothing’s worse than buying a smart phone and then discovering you hate the keyboard.

You’ll also want to pay attention to battery life. A smart phone’s stamina will vary based on the features you use, the size of the screen and how you have it configured.

For example, if you have e-mail pushed to your phone automatically, your battery life will not be as good as if you fetch e-mail manually. And be aware that some phones’ batteries can’t be replaced by the user, such as those in the iPhone.

The operating system

Just as with traditional computers, mobile operating systems often are debated with near-religious fervor.

The top operating systems for U.S. smart phones are Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS, RIM’s BlackBerry OS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. They’re similar in that each allows you to install different applications, or apps, to extend the phone’s capabilities.

The most current version of Google’s Android OS is 2.3, sometimes called Gingerbread. It’s a slight refinement of 2.2, or Froyo. You also may find phones running version 2.1. However, since both the carriers and handset makers must sign off on Android upgrades, they can take a while to appear — or never come at all. I wouldn’t buy a phone with an older version of Android with the presumption that you’ll get the latest version later.

Apple’s iOS is up to version 4.2.1, and all iPhones now come with this. Apple controls the iPhone upgrade process, cutting out the carrier, which means updates come in a speedier manner. Last year, Apple released five updates to its iOS for iPhones.

Microsoft and RIM control the updates for their phones, as well.

Before choosing your phone, you’ll want to take a good look at the app selection. Apple has the largest number of offerings in its iTunes App Store, with more than 300,000. Android has about 220,000, according to AndroLib.com, which tracks the Android Market. RIM has about 15,000 apps in the BlackBerry App World. There are 5,500 apps for Windows Phone 7.

However, raw numbers don’t tell the tale. Apple and Android may have hundreds of thousands of apps, but only a small percentage are worth your time. Again, time spent with your friends’ phones will give you a feel for the apps you may want to install on the platform of your choice.

The carrier

The simplest option is to find a smart phone you like with the carrier you already have if you’re happy with its service so far. But if you’ve never bought a smart phone, there are things you’ll want to consider before committing yourself to a contract with any carrier.

Smart phone purchases require that you pay monthly for a data package, in addition to any voice plans. Depending on the carrier, you may be able to get an unlimited amount of data for a monthly fee, or you may have to choose between tiers of service that limit how much you can download. You’ll need to balance how much you want to spend with how much data you think you’ll use.

If you’re a newcomer to a smart phone, that may be hard to figure out. Items such as images, audio, video and online gaming can chew up lots of data. If you think you’d mostly be doing casual Web surfing, e-mail and searching, you can opt for a smaller data package.

You also should investigate how good a signal a potential carrier provides in the locations you frequent most. Ask your neighbors at home what carriers they use, and what kind of signal they get. Do the same with your colleagues at work.

Also, if you care about a speedy data connection, you may want to switch to a carrier with a faster, next-generation 4G network. Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile all have launched new networks, but phones that take advantage of the new service still are rare. AT&T’s 4G network won’t start rolling out until the middle of this year.

If you can be patient and wait until later this year, you’ll have a better selection of 4G phones from all the carriers.

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With the growth of technology the electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller and multifunctional at the same time. And with the invent of the smart phone, this saga continues. A smart phone is a full-featured mobile phone that comes equipped with the personal computer like functionality. So it is the most efficient way of being mobile and carrying your office with you. Most of the smart phones come with a camera that supports email capabilities and serves as a complete personal organizer.

Some of the important features that are now a basic with most off the smart phones are the applications for enhanced data processing. Along with that the smart phones support connectivity and can be installed on the device contrary to regular phones, which support sand boxed applications. The best part of these applications is that they may be developed by the manufacturer of the device, by the operator or by any other third-party software developer. Smart functionality which is inherent in the smart phones consists of some additional interfaces including a miniature QWERTY keyboard, a touch screen, or even just secure access to company mail.

With all the state of the art features, the smart phone has become an irreplaceable part in our lives. And with the smart phones upgrading never ceases. With so many manufacturers producing the leading and most popular smart phones on the block, many new features are consistently seen making your smart phone more and more productive with each day. But at the same time it is very essential to protect your smart phone for the very need of securing your precious data and the convenience a smart phone can provide you. Viruses that find way into this device and from theft as well threaten the security of smart phones. Here are some basic steps to make your smart phone secure from possible threats.

It is necessary to take precautions to secure your smart phone the same way you should secure your computer or other electronic devices. If you access your e-mail from your smart phone, try not to post your phone number or e-mail address on the web as attackers often use software that browses Web sites for e-mail addresses, which then become targets for attacks and Spam. In case you get any unsolicited e-mail or URL you receive on your smart phone e-mail box. There are many sites that offer games and other software you can download onto your smart phone. A chance is that this software could include malicious code. So it is better to avoid downloading files from sites that you do not trust. Time and again evaluate the security settings of your smart phone. Use the firewalls and other security settings on your smart phone to secure it from possible threat.

It is also better to read the reviews before buying any new smart phone. Also compare the products on features, price, size etc before making your choice.

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Smart phone is a special kind of wireless devices that come equipped with much more advanced data features than most. Smart Phones also often come with keyboards. Though there is no specific definition of a smart phone but we can come to a conclusion that a smart phone has the following option.

Though there’s a no specific definition of smart phone but we can come to a decision that a smart phone has a following characteristics

Wireless e-mail, Internet, Web browsing, and fax Intercom function
Personal information management
Online banking Graffiti style data entry
Local data transfer between phone set and computers
Remote data transfer between phone set and computers
Remote control of computers
Remote control of home or business electronic systems
Interactivity with

Short story of smart phone:

The first smart phone was called Simon designed by IBM in 1992 and shown as a concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer industry trade show held in Les Vegas It was released to the public in 1993 and sold by Bell South .Besides being a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, world clock, address book,calculator, note pad, e-mail, send and receive fax, and games.

It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touch-screen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with a unique on-screen “predictive” keyboard. By today’s standards, the Simon would be a fairly low-end smartphone.

The Nokia Communicator line was the first of Nokia’s smart phones starting with the Nokia 9000 released in 1996. This distinctive palmtop computer style smart phone was the result of a collaborative effort of an early successful and expensive PDA model by Hewlett Packard combined with Nokia’s bestselling phone around that time and early prototype models had the two devices fixed via a hinge.

The 9210 as the first color screen Communicator model which was the first true smart phone with an open operating system; the 9500 Communicator that was also Nokia’s first camera phone Communicator and Nokia’s first WiFi phone; the 9300 Communicator was the third dimensional shift into a smaller form factor; and the latest E90 Communicator includes GPS.

The Nokia Communicator model is remarkable also having been the most expensive phone model sold by a major brand for almost the full lifespan of the model series, easily 20% and sometimes 40% more expensive than the next most expensive smart phone by any major manufacturer.

To protect Nokia’s monopoly domination for smart phone, another many company such as Sony Ericsson, Blackberry, HTC, Samsung, Motorola has began their campaign for smart phone production and marketing.

Smart phone models from Different manufacturer.

Motorola RIZR Z8

Motorola RIZR Z10

Motorola Q9C

Nokia E 51

Nokia E 61

Nokia E 70

Nokia E 90

Nokia N 82

Nokia N 95

Nokia N 96

Palm Centro

Palm Treo 700p

The demand of this feature phone is going up gradually. One of the major cause of its demand using information technology in this phone.Information is the main source of success of any business.Now information related many works are done with this little electronics device.So worldwide people are rushing to get it.

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Question by phalen: smart phone?
what exactly is a “smart” phone? what can they do? would i want one? are they expensive?

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Answer by Brian
you can do pretty much anything with a smart phone, its almost the same as having a laptop with you at all times, with internet.

check out the cingular 8525 or Iphone those are neat..would you want one? i guess if you want to spend money…

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 Cell phones operate on the same principles as radio broadcast. They use radio waves to transmit conversations.  These radio waves can be at different frequencies, just in the same way as regular radio stations broadcast at different frequencies. Cell phones that conform to the  most popular standard for mobile phones,Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication, use frequencies within 5 different frequency bands measured in Megahertz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 and 2100 MHz. A phone that works in one frequency band unfortunately cannot operate in another frequency band next to it unless added as a specific extra frequency band.  To overcome this problem Dual, Tri, and Quad GSM Phones have been developed that utilize two, three or four frequencies respectively. Quad-band phones work as broadly as possible, in over 200 countries worldwide.

Cell phones have come a long way both in design and function since they were first introduced in 1983. Since that time, literally thousands of models of cell phones have hit the streets. Some have become highly sophisticated devices by virtue of acquiring more complex features.  The much sought after iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play a video, or run one of the 35,000 applications available from the Apple Store is drastically different from the prototypic Motorola analog phone, DynaTAC, designed strictly for voice. These advances in cell phone technology beg the question, “What is a smart phone?” 

Even the experts don’t agree on what phone should be labeled a “smart” phone. Although there is no general consensus on the topic, we know that smart phones differ from ordinary mobile phones in two basic ways: how they are built and what they can do. Other definitions put different stresses on these two factors. Some experts say a smart phone is a cell phone which offers advanced capabilities, often with PC-like computer functionality. The techies argue that a smart phone must run complete operating system software providing a standardized interface and platform for application developers. Yet for others, a smart phone is simply a phone with advanced features like e-mail, internet and e-book reader capabilities, and/or a built-in full keyboard or external USB keyboard and VGA, the display screen.  Simply put, “Smart phones are computers you talk to”.

There is a growing global demand for smart phones or “advanced mobile devices”. The smart phone market is bourgeoning because in this digital age there is a belief that your information should follow you wherever you go. This information can live on your phone (all the better because it is easily accessible), on your office or home computer or even on the internet. As such a smart phone is essentially a miniature computer that can function as a phone supporting an earlier prediction, “The phone will be your PC”. In future, the demand for smart phones which can boast of powerful processors, abundant memory, large screens and open operating systems will outpace the rest of the cell phone market for several years.

Smart phones today use an identifiable operating system (OS), often with the ability to add applications (e.g. for enhanced data processing, connectivity or entertainment). This is in contrast to regular cell phones. The smart phone applications may be developed by the manufacturer of the mobile device, by the network operator or by any third-party software developer since the OS is open for the so called “Third-party applications”. Although the Symbian OS is the leading operating system in the “smart mobile device” market, other competitors such as Apple’s iPhone OS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and Google’s Android mobile are rapidly making inroads into this market.   

As expected, the features of smart phone vary from phone to phone. But most smart phones support email capabilities with the functionality of a personal organizer.  The features may also include a miniature keyboard, a touch screen, a built-in camera, a built-in GPS system, and the ability to read business documents in a variety of formats such as PDF and Microsoft Office. Some smart phones incorporate media software for playing music, browsing photos, and viewing video clips, internet browsers, or even just secure access to company mail such as provided by Blackberry. One common feature of the majority of the smart phones is a contact list able to store as many contacts as the available memory permits, in contrast to regular phones that have a limit to the maximum number of contacts that can be stored.

Currently, out of the 1 billion camera phones shipped in 2008, smart phones make up the high-end of the market. This represents about 10% of the total cell phone market or about 100 million units. In addition to the iPhone, smart phones include name brands such as the RIM Blackberry the Nokia N-series, and Palm Pre to name a few.  It must be noted that regular cell phones are getting ever smarter, though, and it’s only a matter of time before all phones have some of the advanced levels of functionality associated with today’s smart phones.

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On August 30th, Motorola held a conference called “really intelligent, Ming cell phones come back” in Beijing, and the company released three kinds of “Ming” series smart phones based on Android system at a time. Thus, in less than one year’s time, MOTO total in China, introduced 11 Android smart phones. On average, almost every month has a new Motorola phone to market. The pace of new handsets launched compact, the strong momentum in the smart phone market is very rare. From the end of last year, Motorola launched intensive new Android phone, storm the smart phone market, successful performance. However, Motorola’s recovery is not smooth the road is doomed, because other operating systems as well as Andriod cell phone manufacturers have vied with this much pressure to Motorola. Successful completion of both split, but also with major cell phone manufacturers started competing head-on, how to solve the plight of the Red Sea Andriod phone, Motorola will be key to recovery. Introduced range of smart phones, storm the Chinese market Brilliant achievements have set the cell phone market, Motorola developed in recent years repeatedly frustrated, after a long period of low and its preparation, this year, Motorola settle down, frequently force, and continue to stir China’s smart phone market, underlines the determination to catch up. On August 30th, Motorola took the latest action. In the “wise real return” conference, Motorola introduced a total of three “out” series of cell phones, to support domestic three different formats. All three phones are in support of China Mobile TD-SCDMA network, MT810, support China Telecom CDMAEV-DO and GSM dual-network dual to be the XT806 and support China Unicom’s WCDMA network A1680. It is worth noting that they are based on the Android smart phone system. This style arrangement, show MOTO focus more on balance and cooperation between the three operators, the layout concept. Meng Pu, president of Motorola Greater China, said China’s current 3G standard by the three operators to support, therefore, in order to meet the different 3G standards of customer, and Motorola will increase cooperation between the three operators. It is reported that two versions of cell phone configuration HD camera and other features, hoping to China in an increasingly competitive smart phone market to attract more and more users. Motorola’s intensive campaign, the achievements are obvious to all. According to IDC data, the second quarter, Motorola’s handset market share in China is only 2% over the same period four years ago the figure was 23%. The second quarter of 2010, this year, Motorola smart phones in the domestic market share was 13.6%, second only to Nokia’s 26.7% and Samsung’s 17.9%. Inside the Android operating system, Motorola is more than 50% market share, ahead of other manufacturers. Betting on Android, an occasion to regain their leading position According to Nielsen’s report shows that by 2012 there will be 1 / 3 is the smart phones, Android has become the world’s fastest increase in smart phone operating system; the previous quarter, the U.S. market with 27% of smart phones Android system Apple’s operating system has more than 23%. In the country, Android system performance is also very eye-catching. It is reported that domestic cell phones used in the system, Google Android smart phone market share, in the past month for the first time over Apple’s iPhone. Android system in the world of rapid expansion, Motorola is actually trying to take back the lead as the Chinese market, providing a flash exhibition room for maneuver. Meng Pu frankly, Motorola’s 2G cell phones would be greatly reduced, mainly based on the Android operating platform, the development of 3G cell phones, Motorola from 2008 put stakes on the Android operating platform. Previously, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay ? Jia also said, Android phones will be Motorola’s revival by the choice. He said that Motorola plans to launch in 2010 of 20 smart phones, most of which use Android system. Li Yan, vice president of Motorola, said Motorola has launched 11 models of products based on Android, the data from a third party perspective, Android’s products are the smart phone market, the fastest growing. Motorola’s Android operating system, which holds 50% market share, ahead of other manufacturers. Meanwhile, in China, Motorola has launched a number of smart phone models over the Chinese market, other smart phone brand. According to Sino-statistics, as of the first half of this year, Motorola’s market share in China, more than other brands combined Android smart phone, Android smart phone vendors to become the market share of top brands. This means that in the Chinese market Shan Fan ν new Android smart phone manufacturers have become the first leading brand in doing my part. Aggressive approach to breaking the plight of the operating system Red Sea According to reports, the “return wise real” conference, Motorola, Chinese companies talked about rebirth, that is, to the system with Android smart phone, smart phone vendors to become the first Chinese leading brands. But competition is intensifying, Motorola’s outlook is not optimistic. The competition among the cell phone manufacturers of Android system are fiercely either. September 2, Huawei launched the smart phone operating system equipped with Andriod2.2 U8150. Huawei’s terminal business for the UK and Ireland director of NicolaPhilbin said, this is the only currently on the market a brand and Android2.2 with Google cell phone operating system, and has great competitive prices. Coincidentally, Cool disclosed in a recent earnings report, after a year of research and development, the first flagship products will be based on Andriod second half of this year. Cool the first Android phone to market will further increase its competitive advantage in the 3G market. There is no doubt, then, Motorola’s market space will be further squeezed. It is noteworthy that, Android system because of its open source and for free, will attract many cheap cell phone vendors into the system, the price decline as irreversible trend. The current, more reliance on Motorola Android phone in the stand-alone profits, if the downward pressure on prices continued to strengthen (cheap cell phone prices), inevitably forcing Motorola’s growth is slowing down. From the view of the current situation, Andriod Smartphone momentum very fierce, as Motorola’s development provides a good environment. But the first intercept, where someone is chasing behind Motorola’s rebirth, is full of variables. In order to realize the grand aim of dominating the market, there are so many things that Motorola need to do. From: wholesale cell phone accessories

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