Wednesday, April 18, 2012


A Smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a feature phone. The first Smartphone was the IBM Simon; it was designed in 1992 and shown as a concept product. It was released to the community in 1993 and sold by Bell South. The mobile phone had many features such as a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, notepad, email client; it could also send and receive faxes, and games. It used touch screen to select telephone numbers or create faxes and memos, text was entered with a unique on-screen keyboard. Today’s Smartphone serve as a portable media player, compact digital camera, and GPS navigation unit. Modern Smartphones include a high resolution touch screen, web browsers and high speed data access via Wi-Fi and mobile broadband. In 1996, the Nokia 9000 was released, it was characterized by clamshell design with a feature phone display, keyboard and user interface, high-resolution display of at least 640x200 pixels and a PDA use interface under the flip-top. In 1998, it was followed by a Nokia 9110 and in 2000 by Nokia 9110i, with improved browsing capability (Wikipedia, 18 April 2012). Some people would say without communication we are hopeless, different communication system such as mobile technology, telephony, radio and TV is so important in our lives, it is often used in our daily dealings with people around us, entertain us, and aid us in our businesses and many more. Interestingly the telephone system is one of the most useful communication devices since it was invented in 1877 until now (emilgen, 2011).


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