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Features of Smartphones

Smartphone is one of the greatest innovations in the world of mobile phones. Smartphone is a mobile phone and many more than that. A smartphone can make your prestige soar up technically with its superior technical magic. The features of smartphones are varied and examples of a speedy technical progress.

Smartphone can function like a full-fledged PC. The features of smarphones are advanced and technically thrilling.

Smartphone can function like an ordinary telephone and boasts of a number of superior features like:

Data entry in graffiti style
Intercom function
LAN connectivity
Online Banking
Personal information management
Wireless e-mail
Fax facilities
Web browsing
Internet
Unified messaging interactivity
Remote control of the electronic systems of your business
Remote control of your home
Remote data transfers between computers and phone set
Local data transfers between computers and phone set

Smartphone does not have a clear cut definition and the definitions of smartphones have changed since its entry into the market. EVP at Symbian, David Wood defined smartphone as unlike typical mobile phones in two elementary ways, their activities meaning what they are capable to do and their advanced built. Smartphones have operating systems and in some cases applications can be added. A smartphone is a complete personal organizer. Other functionalities of a smartphone include an:

Accelerometer
Contact management
Built-in camera
D-pad or touch-screen
Miniature QWERTY keyboard
Skill to read business in several formats like Microsoft Office and PDF
Secure access to mail of the company
Internet browsers
View video clips
Browse photos
Play music on media software

Some of the most used operating systems in smartphones are:

RIM Blackberry operating system
Symbian OS operating system- Symbian Limited
Palm OS operating system- Pam Source
Windows Mobile operating system-Microsoft
Linux operating system
OS X operating system- Apple Inc

Some of the popular models of smartphone are:

Toshiba Portege G900
Sony Ericsson W950
Sony Ericsson P990
Samsung SCH-i730
Samsung Blackjack SGH-i607
RIM BlackBerry 8800
RIM BlackBerry 8700c
RIM BlackBerry Curve 8300
RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100
Palm Treo 700p
Nokia N95
Nokia E90 Communicator
Nokia E70
Nokia E61
Motorola Q
Motorola RIZR Z8
Lobster 700TV
HTC TyTN II
HTC P3300
E-TEN glofiish X500
Apple i Phone

Some of the chief smartphone manufacturers are:

Research in Motion Limited or RIM
Apple Inc
Kyocera
Motorola
Palm Inc
I-mate
Group Sense PDA
Gigabyte Technology
Samsung Electronics
Hewlett-Packard

Smartphone features make life smooth for smartphone owners.