After only about a decade, smartphone technology is so successful that businesses and

their employees have trouble imagining a day without them. Besides making phone calls,
nearly all smartphones today can natively provide directions through GPS, take pictures,
play music and keep track of appointments and contacts. Through the installation of
apps, the list of possible smartphone uses multiplies by tens of thousands and grows
longer everyday.
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Communication Options
Old school cell phones can call and text. While this can get your message across,
smartphones allow you multiple ways of communicating. Not only can they call, text and
IM, they give you access to email, video calling and video conferencing. You can also
remain connected through social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Web Everywhere
At first, Web browsing tended to occur at a desk in an office, where a wire could reach a
PC. Wireless access and laptops moved the Web to pretty much anywhere in the house or
office, but smartphone technology, including broadband wireless, has sent the Web onto
the subway, into cars and to the park -- wherever there is cellular coverage. What's more,
the latest smartphones can display nearly as much of the Internet as PCs, including
games and streaming high definition videos.
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Device Merger
Once, you might have needed an entire bag to carry around all the devices needed for
daily business activities. You would need your cell phone and your PDA. You might also
need an MP3 player, an e-book reader, a camera and a GPS device. Through miniaturized
hardware that packs a processor, speakers, a camera, a GPS receiver, a Wi-Fi adapter
and a high definition touch-sensitive screen into a cell-phone-sized device, a smartphone
puts all of this functionality into your pocket.

Endless Applications
The late twentieth-century saw an explosion of computer applications. The early twentyfirst century brings hundreds of thousands of smartphone apps.The sensors built into the
smartphone as well as its portability and programmability have made it a device with
almost limitless applications. Beyond the tons of games and productivity apps available,
health and fitness apps track the miles you've run, the calories you've consumed and
even your current heart rate. Internet radio and podcasting apps put you in touch with
whole new worlds of audio. Compass apps, leveling apps and flashlights provide
handheld utilities. Apps that let you paint, modify photos or create music tap into your
creativity.
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About the Author
Brian Jung has been writing professionally since 1991. Currently he works as a software
developer for University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, where he also contributes reviews
and commentary on children's and young adult literature to his own blog, Critique de Mr
Chompchomp, and to Guys Lit Wire. Brian holds a Doctor of Philosophy in English from
the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

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Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the telephone. In 1878 he made the first phone call.
Telephones have not only come a long way, but may one day be completely obsolete.

Motorola introduced some of the first cellphones to the public during the 1980s. These cellphones
were completely unlike the cell phones of today since they were not at all compact nor by any means
cost effective. Some of these cellphones cost as much as $4,000, and weighed over 2 pounds!
The first smartphone was developed by IBM and BellSouth, which came out to the public in 1993.
Althought basic compared to todays standards Simon had a touch screen that was capable of
accessing email and sending faxes.
Smartphones are major extensions on normal cellphones. Cellphones can make phone calls and
even some have video recording capabilities but they do not have GPS capabilities along with a whole
array of other applications. Text messaging is one of the biggest forms of communication today,
especially among the younger folks.
Smartphones capability does not end at the Internet access, or at document editing. Smartphones
also have the ability to interpret and decipher information like that from a quick response code that
may be on a products packaging. Smartphone users can download QR code scanners as well as
other applications so they have the ability to read the information embedded in the QR code that may
take them to a website, a coupon, or even a social media site.
Smartphones are advancing at a very quick pace and some have the ability to talk to you, answer
questions, turn off your lights when you are not there, open doors, and even watch movies.
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