Decide Whether You Need an Ordinary Mobile Phone or a Smartphone

1. A mobile phone or a cellular phone is a communication device that allows you to make or receive telephone calls through a radio link, within a wide geographic area, even if you are moving around within that area. The first mobile phone was demonstrated by Motorola in 1973 and it weighed nearly 2.2 pounds or 1 kg. After that, the use of mobile phones has been increasing steadily over the years and now nearly 87% of the global population uses cellular phones. Apart from telephone calls, mobile phones also offer other services like text messaging (SMS), video messaging (MMS), Internet access, email, gaming, photography, short-rage wireless communications through Bluetooth or infrared and business applications.
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3. Major Global Cellular Phone Manufacturers
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5. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, Samsung was leading the mobile phone market, with a market share estimated at 22.8%. The market share of Nokia and Apple were 18.0% and 9.5% respectively. ZTE had a share of 3.5%, while the market share of LG and Huawei was about 3.3% at the end of 2012.
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7. What is Difference between Mobile Phone and Smartphone?
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9. A smartphone has more advanced computing capabilities and connectivity compared to the standard feature phone. The major addition in a smartphone is the personal digital assistant, while portable media players, GPS navigation units, pocket video cameras, etc. are the other functionalities available in a smartphone. A smartphone requires a good software or operating system (OS) to support its various features and functionalities. The most popular operating systems available in the latest smartphone are Android of Google, iOS of Apple, Symbian of Nokia, BlackBerry OS of RIM, Bada of Samsung, Windows Phone of Microsoft, webOS of HP and embedded Linux software like MeeGo and Maemo.
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11. Sales and Improvements of Smartphone
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13. The sale of the smartphone has been much higher than that the standard mobile phone from the beginning of 2013 and people are focusing more on smartphone due to the lowering of the prices and the wide ranges available to them to select from at various price structures. Further, the improvements to the smartphone have been quite significant. The display sizes and display resolutions have been steadily increasing. The present display sizes of the smartphone vary between 6 and 8 inches, while the resolutions range between 240x320 pixels to 1080x1920 pixels. Another major advantage of Smartphone is that it allows direct connectivity with various social media sites likes Facebook, Twitter, etc. with a single touch. Hence, the trend is shifting towards the smartphone from the conventional cellular phone and you should go with it.