smart phone, mobile telephone with a display screen (typically a liquid crystal display, or LCD), built-in personal information management programs (such as an electronic calendar and address book) typically found in a personal digital assistant (PDA), and an operating system (OS) that allows other computer software to be installed for Web browsing, e-mail, music, video, and other applications. A smart phone may be thought of as a handheld computer integrated within a mobile telephone.
smart phone Home Technology Computers smart phone Alternate titles: smart phone By William . Last Updated: Apr 20, 2022 • Edit History smart phone, also smart phone, mobile telephone with a display screen (typically a liquid crystal display, or LCD), built-in personal information management programs (such as an electronic calendar and address book) typically found in a personal digital assistant (PDA), and an operating system (OS) that allows other computer software to be installed for Web browsing, e-mail, music, video, and other applications. A smartphone may be thought of as a handheld computer integrated within a mobile telephone.G1 smart phone G1 smart phone See all media Related Topics: mobile telephone microcomputer Nexus One The first smartphone was designed by IBM and sold by Bell South (formerly part of the AT&T Corporation) in 1993. It included a touchscreen interface for accessing its calendar, address book, calculator, and other functions. As the market matured and solid-state computer memory and integrated circuits became less expensive over the following decade, smartphones became more computer like, and more more advance services, such as Internet access, became possible. Advanced services became ubiquitous with the introduction of the so-called third-generation (3G) mobile phone networks in 2001. Before 3G, most mobile phones could send and receive data at a rate sufficient for telephone calls and text messages. Using 3G, communication takes place at bit- rates high enough for sending and receiving photographs, video clips, music files, e-mails, and more. Most smartphone manufacturers license an operating system, such as Microsoft Corporation’s Windows Mobile OS, Symbian OS, Google’s Android OS, or Palm OS. Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple Inc.’s iPhone have their own proprietary systems.The iPod nano, introduced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in San Francisco, May 2007. A revolutionary full featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs and is thinner than a standard #2 pencil. MP3 player, music player, digital music BRITANNICA QUIZ Electronics & Gadgets Quiz Who is the maker of the iPhone? In what year was the DVD introduced? The iPod? Scan these questions and test your knowledge of electronics and gadgets.Learn how smartphones can detect hazardous materials in the air or diagnose disease and other specific chemicals Learn how smartphones can detect hazardous materials in the air or diagnose disease and other specific chemicals Discover how a smartphone can detect hazardous gases, environmental pollutants, and other specific chemicals.© Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A Britannica Publishing Partner)See all videos for this article Smart phones contain either a keyboard integrated with the telephone number pad or a standard “QWERTY” keyboard for text messaging, e-mailing, and using Web browsers. “Virtual” keyboards can be integrated into a touch screen design. Smartphones often have a built-in camera for recording and transmitting photographs and short videos. In addition, many smartphones can access Wi-Fi “hot spots” so that users can access VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) rather than pay cellular telephone transmission fees. The growing capabilities of handheld devices and transmission protocols have enabled a growing number of inventive and fanciful applications—for instance, “augmented reality,” in which a smartphone’s global positioning system (GPS) location chip can be used to overlay the phone’s camera view of a street scene with local tid bits of information, such as the identity of stores, points of interest, or real estate listings.The LG en V2 smartphone, featuring a QWERTY keyboard inside a clamshell type cover for convenient text messaging and e-mailing. Like other smartphones, it also featured a music player, games, a camera, and a camcorder in addition to the voice service.The LG en V2 smartphone, featuring a QWERTY keyboard inside a clamshell type cover for convenient text messaging and e-mailing. Like other smartphones, it also featured a music player, games, a camera, and a camcorder in addition to the voice service.Verizon Wireless/PR News Foto/AP Images William L. Hosch
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Smart phones as modernized personal digital assistants (PDAs) with wireless connectivity compact in design with a high-resolution touch screen, multi touch interface and QWERTY keyboard. Popular operating systems include Google’s open-source platform Android, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, Apple’s iOS, BlackBerry’s OS and Nokia’s Symbian. of smartphones as modernized personal digital assistants (PDAs) with wireless connectivity compact in design with a high-resolution touch screen, multi touch interface and QWERTY keyboard. Popular operating systems include Google’s open-source platform Android, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, Apple’s iOS, BlackBerry’s OS and Nokia’s Symbian.
